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"The best thing that could happen is for the format war to end, which will be very pro-consumer, particularly as hardware comes down." To me, that sentence is the key. The HD DVD formats are in a battle and not just with each other; their real en…
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Quote: Originally Posted by britwithgoodteeth Marzetta - I'm about to enter the Blu-ray market. What model do you have? I'm not Marz but I thought I'd add my 2¢. Right now the Blu-ray player of choice is the PS3. There are some second generati…
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Seagate seems to get consistent good recommendations. Other that are also worth considering are Western Digital and Hitachi. There's been mixed reports about Maxtor. If you have a Frye's or Best Buy in your area watch their sale circulars as they of…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Sadly my access to HD was via my former roomates 30" Philips CRT and I know exactly of the smearing that you speak of. Fades and some fast pans would smear or pixelate on our comcast connection. I'm va…
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OK, so I missed the lack of a B when he put down 5G. Boy, did I ever step in that one. Maybe I can plead age and failing eyesight? Anyway, the basic information about slow and battery intensive still stands. You might want to check the Storage and M…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bitemymac Well, desparate times call for desparate measures. With both hidef format supporters taking turns to do this is kinda amusing to watch. These zealots are actually helping with buffering newer techologies un…
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While not technically a keyboard shortcut, I like the right click on the mouse-- very handy for a number of things.
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I have no personal experience using a iPod/Camera Connector to download pictures, but on camera boards that combination is not highly thought of for that purpose as is extremely slow and very battery intensive for both iPod and camera. Are you su…
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Quote: Originally Posted by snoopy I may agree with you for those of us who rent DVDs, rather than buy them. I happen to belong to Netflix, and can wait out a format war, with no risk. However, I remember when DVD was beginning to replace VHS…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bitemymac Of course, still too small and too early. It would require at least another year and lower HD player prices to become more significant. As I reiterated many times, we need to hit $199 player price point to…
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Lanfear, in light of developments in the last two books, shouldn't you change your screen name to Cyndane? Sorry folks, a WoT thing. To stay on topic, if you can afford it I'd also buy new rather than refurbished.
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Maybe I'm just old fashion but I don't like the Swiss Army knife approach. I want a camera that's a camera, a phone that's a phone and a universal remote that's a universal remote, not some mishmash of technologies.
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The first PS3 I ever saw in a store was a 20GB model and I was sorely tempted, but resisted the impulse buy urge. Having to upgrade my non-HDMI receiver was the the killer. That was the only 20GB I ever saw. I think Sony made a very limited number o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Kzelk4 Id like to see a comparasin of sales of blu-ray without the PS3 and HD DVD drive on the xbox 360. Although this is pretty much impossible the numbers are probably way closer without the PS3, imo. Yet on a pol…
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I agree with bitemymac that the first three months of 2007 sales figures mean little as both format camps seem to be in this for the long haul and are willing to loose money in whatever amounts necessary to keep their format viable. SDW2001, you …
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Crucial is the retail arm of Micron, one of the largest chip makers in the world, and one of those companies that supply RAM to Apple. In fact, in my MacPro the base 1GB RAM was from Micron. So you can buy from them with confidence.
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IMO, ultra high speed downloads aren't going to happen for most of us. I have 768k DSL, which in real world terms means it's usually in the mid 600s, through Verizon. Recently I tried to go to 3.0 but no dice, the wiring from the street couldn't han…
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Quote: Originally Posted by emig647 It kinda hit me today... how many people are waiting to upgrade to HD players until "this mess sorts itself out"? What if it never really sorts out and there is a large abundance of people that never upgrade be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Splinemodel To tell you the truth, there is: going to one really large screen is actually nicer. One large screen is nicer only if it's 30", IMO. But YMMV.
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I know some of the regular posters here in this thread have already bought an HDD format player, while others, myself included, prefer to stick with SD-DV until this whole mess sorts itself out. Has this whole HD format war plus the question as to …