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TheAncientOne
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Cour thus far has the advantage of being used to mean exactly that, while "season" has long been used in the US television to mean something else.
The eixsting standard for broadband in the US is 4Mb/s down, 1Mb/s up: http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/fcc-chair-broadband-must-be-25mbps-and-isps-are-failing-to-deliver/ If approved, the new proposal would change that to 25/3. |
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leafy sea dragon
Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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Yeah, I remember being in the film department of UC Santa Cruz during the PS3's release. I found it pretty interesting, to say the least, that these film scholars and students were buying PS3s left and right, considering the disdain much of the department usually has for video games. (Naturally, very few actually bought any games.)
While I never got the HD-DVD add-on for my Xbox 360, I DO have a first-run machine that continues to work to this day. The red rings of death most commonly come from overheating the system. As long as it's kept in a dry, well-ventilated location, you minimize that risk.
I always had the impression that a saga was made up of one or more arcs. That's how it works for One Piece, at least. Romance Dawn arc + Captain Morgan arc + Buggy arc + Kuro arc + Arlong arc + Don Krieg arc + Loguetown arc = East Blue saga Reverse Mountain arc or Laboon arc + Whiskey Peak arc + Little Garden arc + Drum Island arc + Alabasta arc = Baroque Works saga (though some would consider the Drum island story a saga within a saga) Jaya arc + Skypeia arc = Skypeia saga Davy Back arc = Davy Back saga And so forth. That's how it goes. I think that Dragon Ball Z could be more easily segmented into arcs within sagas, though the part with Gotenks is way too short and inconsequential, to me, to be a full arc on its own. Rather, I think the Cell saga is best split up based on the identity of the antagonist at that point (with each power-up of Cell being the start of another arc), as THOSE are major turning points in the story.
That would've pretty much doom the HD-DVD, considering it was decrypted almost as soon as the format came out, then the decryption key was posted all over the Internet. The MPAA never stood a chance. Supposedly, the MPAA poured US$1 billion to making an uncrackable code, but I can't find the article where I read that. Also, was VHS more secure than Betamax? Certainly, the MPAA attempted to stop VCR production too. |
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yuna49
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That had nothing to do with security. The MPAA was arguing that off-air recording of television programs constituted copyright infringement. Eventually the case made it to the Supreme Court where Justice Stevens ruled that off-air taping of programming that included commercials was not infringing. The expansion of commercial exposures by "time-shifting" compensated for the "harm" (a technical term in copyright litigation) resulting from the infringement. There was also the finding that VCR technology had other purposes besides off-air taping so infringement was not the sole rationale for the technology. That same argument has been extended to Bittorrent but was used to make services like Napster and Grokster illegal because they had no real purpose other than facilitating infringement. The "Betamax" decision is often misunderstood as granting consumers unlimited rights to record television programming. Stevens's decision is much more narrow and specifically excluded services like HBO and cable channels. While it may appear that off-air recording is now fully legitimated, it is still the subject of litigation as in the Cablevision case. |
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EricJ2
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Although I had a long history with the Sega Genesis in college I bought the PS3 for the same reason the film buffs did: In 2007, it was the only popular-priced Blu-ray player that WORKED. Period. (Meanwhile, the anti-Blu Haterz, and frustrated owners of Sony's mass-market standalone Blu player, would routinely post videos of how it took the Sony SD300 20 minutes to load up the menu for Pirates of the Caribbean 2, as "proof" that Blu, like UltraHD, was a "studio conspiracy" disaster that should never have happened. To which we PS3 owners would heckle the entire punish-Blu movement with "Oh, man, it took my PS3 thirty whole seconds to load up this menu!") Of course, the free software upgrade to Blu3D two years later didn't hurt either. Last edited by EricJ2 on Thu May 21, 2015 12:38 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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leafy sea dragon
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If I recall correctly, it was also the cheapest easily available Blu-Ray player too. Nevertheless, it always stood out to me because, having played video games for so long, it felt weird to be constantly hearing people talk of the PS3 as strictly a Blu-Ray player and nothing else. (I didn't hear a word about the PS3's other non-gaming related functions, for that matter.)
Oh, okay then. I thought the argument was that there was nothing to prevent people from recording movies shown on TV and that the VCR was going to kill the home video market. |
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enurtsol
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Besides, the Betamax was the better quality but lost anyways
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