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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism We can't agree. I don't care how high the profile or bitrate is a lossy compression is by definition data compression in which unnecessary information is discarded. JPEG, GIF, MP3, AAC, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 are …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism It uses the MPEG-2 which I believe was approved in 1995. The masters are magnitudes larger than the 720x480 @ ~10Mb/sec bitrate that DVD maxes out at. Yes, the error-free compression algorithms that make t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM No, DVD-Video is lossy, I don't understand why you think otherwise. The only lossless part of DVD-Video is PCM stereo audio, and most DVDs don't use that. The video signal on a DVD can be compressed to about…
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Quote: Originally Posted by minderbinder You'll never see releases losslessly compressed. At least not unless there's a major breakthrough and someone invents lossless compression at ratios of 10+ to one (and way beyond). We already have loss…
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I applaud Apple for offering such a huge upgrade for an existing device (not to mention being able to) and offering it for free. I know all the Apple-bashers on these forums will never give them credit for it, but very few other companies would (or …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Note: Being a word from Latin, the original plural was fora, but forums is also correct. Google list more uses for forums and dictionaries list both. I know, just a little joke. Since I don't want to be…
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Wow! I have to admit I hadn't been reading any of these Apple forums (yes, I know the correct plural is "fora") until last August. I wanted to see what people thought of the incredibly beautiful new iMac (boy, that'll get me flamed for sure!) I star…
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@mdotdubz & His Dudeness: How dare you guys who have actually bought one and used it try to tell us the MacBook Air is good? Can't you read? The trolls have spoken!
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdotdubz Why don't we start comparing the MB Air with Ti-89's for Pete's sake! Yes, let's! My Timex-Sinclair 1000 is much lighter. Surely that proves the MBA is junk!
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This is all the same on every forum. "How dare Apple bring out a new laptop that's not a MacBook Pro for half the price and half the weight, that doesn't have a much smaller, yet somehow still legible display, and doesn't have a much smaller, yet so…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wilco Maybe you should check the name of this thread again? Sorry if I didn't make myself clear: I wasn't talking about just this thread on this forum, I'm talking about every thread on every forum where the MacBook…
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The MacBook Air is here and has generated the usual vituperation. The people who post to forums like this have vented their spleen over its perceived shortcomings, just as they did with the iPhone and the iPod Touch and...well, everything Apple brin…
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Yes, zunx, we get it; you don't want one. Congratulations: you can save a lot of money!
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Quote: Originally Posted by WholesaleMagic Forget the MacBook Air... I want to complain about my Toyota Yaris. Why doesn't it have a 6-litre, V12 engine? Why doesn't it have 10 cubic metres of boot space? Why doesn't it automatically driv…
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Geez, lowededwookie, I went through this whole registration process to say the exact same thing you just did, so I guess I won't bother! What is it about Mac forums in particular that leads everyone for whom a new product is not ideal, to write a…