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rob_in_chatt
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join:2004-09-17
Chattanooga, TN
 ·Comcast
| Dominance see this is the problem......all a huge loophole that ends up back to the problem that bugs everyone the most. copyright infringement. the technology is gearing up towards making everything available on the PC (movies, music and TV shows) so now you run into a user defined level of what is right and what is wrong. i have a tv tuner card and it records very well, just as good as a dvd recorder or even tivo. problem is that recording onto a vcr tape for your personal use isnt wrong. but doing it on your pc is. is it because of the ease of sharing on the pc? no it is because that hollywood feels they are being jipped. i have been and always will be a supporter of the black market for songs and software etc, because my theory is simple. if you can not make a million bucks last you a life time, then you my friend are a complete and total idiot for not properly investing your funds. that is your fault. if there would be some sort of regulation on how much people cold be paid, like baseball players. Roger Clemens was offered 21 million dollars to play this year but he is in arbitration to make it 30 million. that is outrageous. its this kind of poor management that is forcing people to do things the free and not so always legal way. what pisses me off is that since 9-11 everything has gone up. gas and milk and food blah blah and so on. has my pay rate increased along with this? no sir it has not and it is frustrating. the ISPs and the AA's need to meet in the middle on this issue and it needs to be resolved. we are on the cusp of something big, and its going to be digital. there will be no more blockbuster videos. as soon as hte ISPs realize they are holding back the progression of the internet, then we will be able to progress forward. imagine if you were to legally obtain dvd copies of movies such as blockbuster. and you were legally able to make them available for download for a fee. the problem is that a dvd is 4 to 7 gigs. you download 5 or 6 and you might approach that invisible limit of unlimited internet. i know i might be straying a lttle bit from the actual subject here, but the fact is that we are progressing towards an all digital age so the roadblocks that are preventing us from progressing need to be removed. just my 2 cents  | |
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join:2003-05-27
Sacramento, CA
| Re: Dominance said by rob_in_chatt  :if you can not make a million bucks last you a life time, then you my friend are a complete and total idiot for not properly investing your funds. that is your fault. HOOAH! Im with you 100% on this! | |
| | nerdboy789
join:2004-06-07
Rigby, ID
| Dominance Where do you people come from?? a million bux isn't that much at all.
I could blow through it in about an hour if that. If I had a million dollars I would invest Some of it but certainly not all.
Money is meant to be spent not saved | |
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join:2003-05-27
Sacramento, CA
| Re: Dominance said by nerdboy789 :Where do you people come from?? a million bux isn't that much at all. I could blow through it in about an hour if that. If I had a million dollars I would invest Some of it but certainly not all. Money is meant to be spent not saved I think you missed the point  | |
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anyonesee
@optonline.net
| Hey, anyone see ABC's John Stossel's
"Give Me a Break" ?? He went through the top 10 myths of seemingly bad things that are actually good. But I think he missed out on one, George Bush getting re-elected.... people losing their jobs to outsourcing is a good thing, greed (or privitization) is good too, versus sharingm, etc etc etc..
Anyone can make a perception of something seemingly good seem bad: it's called politics. Microsoft being the transport of choice. Cable companies have snubbed M.$. for years about providing a digital tv 'box' and 'codec' format for ip/digital based TV services, well.. if Windows XP is any indication-- it will be hacked in no-time flat...
Next, the service will provide directv and video on demand services via the network... probably have some form of unbundling of channels.
Where it gets sticky, is what happens when people file swap at 2-15mbits the content that they pay to receive? The music industry found it's first big enemy, the windows based pc's and mp3 file format... No doubt some combination of codecs (2-3) will come together to find the best scaleable balance of quality and compression (divx/xvid/mpeg look like short term winners today) because it allows for what people want to do with it (share), but it won't be long before content providers will be going through a similar crisis. Tough, that's technology's process... And I personally think that anyone who pays for a cable tv bill 12/12 months each year should not be charged with ripping off most content, since it will eventually be transmitted as permissions in a future licensed verssion as part of your catv bill, so.. there!
The only abhorant thing you should not be able to do is profit from re-selling the content. | |
| tparker1
join:2004-09-29
Winston Salem, NC
| rob_in_chatt:You hit the nail right on the Head The Movie Companys are holding back Convergence to the Living Room .If you watched what happened at CES last Month it was Geared that way all a person has to do is look at the Hardware coming out .A-Open the Motherboard Company released a 429 Pin Motherboard that is perfect for the Living room PC put in a Dothan 2 Ghz Cpu and a couple of 400 Gig harddrives a HDTV Tunercard a All in wonder Videocard,Dual layer DVD Recorder 2-512 sticks of Memory and a Plasma or LCD,Dlp, or front Projector and a 6.1 Channel Soundcard along with a Reciever ,Subwoofer and five Identicle Speakers.I have the THX Ultra2 Klipsch package.With the Dothan Laptop Intel Processor it runs whisper quite and is ready for VOIP/Interactive TV/HDTV 1080X1920/ theonly thing holding it back is the availability to download PPV Movies In HDTV Format they can be stored till the Blu-ray DVD Recorders come out.I would rather do it this way instead of buying Movies already on DVD .I want to make my own menus choose whether 16X9 or 4/3 .A Custom DVD makes more sense to me and they could do the same with Audio I want the 24 Bit 192 Khz Sampling rate DVD Audio thank you very much. | |
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