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#301026
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35mpg by 2020
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/301026/action/topic#301026
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OK, but those are big cars (that Hummer is more like a truck ). How much do the Hummer and Jeep weigh?
I thought this 35mpg was an aim for normal average sized cars.

Edit: Oh btw, what's the fuel price per gallon nowadays (I calculated a gallon would be about $8,25 here in the Netherlands)?
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#300954
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Finland school shooting
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300954/action/topic#300954
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Oh, something of great importance, are firearms legal in Finland? Because if they are, the obvious anwer is ban them , if they are, then I guess this one will be forgotten as far as the news is concerned by tomorrow.

Yes they are legal. The responce of the government is quick. The legal age at which you can buy a firearm will be raised to 18 years (it now is 15).
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#300872
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Finland school shooting
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300872/action/topic#300872
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You probably heard about the school shooting in Finland. It is said the gunman announced his attack on the internet. On his site he uploaded a .zip file with small pictures, a small clip of himself, a doc with the attack info, a doc with his manifesto, and a doc about what he hates. Ofcourse everything on his site was quickly removed after the incident. This is the actual .zip file the gunman made and uploaded. Maybe you have already seen this but I thought it would be interesting if you haven't.
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#300838
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300838/action/topic#300838
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Originally posted by: Tiptup
Originally posted by: lordjedi
The read/write times have to do with how fast the disc is spinning.


Yes, that's true, but you're incorrect in thinking you know what I'm talking about. BDs have a feature that allows them to have slightly faster read/write times for the same spin speed and, as I remember, that has to do with the way the data is configured on the physical disc. I'd have to look up that feature again just to let you know what it is though, and I don't really care enough at the moment to do that.

According to the technical info at videohelp.com BD has a maximum data transfer rate of 54Mbit and HD DVD of 36.55Mbit (Link).
A BD can contain more data so if it spins about as fast as an HD DVD can't it be read quicker anyway?
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#300804
Topic
Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300804/action/topic#300804
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Originally posted by: lordjedi
That's incorrect. The read/write times have to do with how fast the disc is spinning. And the reason BDs couldn't be made on existing lines is because they use a different laser (blue diode). HD-DVD actually use the same color laser, it's just narrower, but not as narrow as a blue laser. BDs are bigger in terms of space simply because they're using a blue laser diode instead of a red one, so they can get the beam smaller, which allows you to pack more data into the same area. HD-DVD is backware compatible because it uses a red laser, so the width just has to be changed between a DVD and an HD-DVD.

I think both HD DVD and Blu-ray use a 405nm blue laser.

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#300609
Topic
(PDI Deluxe) VHS capture questions for those wiser than moi
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300609/action/topic#300609
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I thought IVTC is ONLY to remove pulldown, not to turn something that's interlaced into something progressive (unless the source was progressive). Now I don't know exactly how it is for NTSC camcorders but for PAL camcorders the camcorder while filming doesn't capture a frame and turn it into seperate fields. It's capturing fields at 50 fields per seconds. Because of this it is hard to turn interlaced camcorder footage into progressive footage (because the two fields are not shot at the same time they can differ a lot especially in faster moving scenes). But as I said I don't know how it is for NTSC camcorders.
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#300525
Topic
Do you believe in aliens?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300525/action/topic#300525
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Originally posted by: shimy
If the universe is so big so infinitely huge, estimates suggest numbers to be around 10^22 and if light always travels in a strait line and since space is empty literally mass has a density of around 10 or 15 atoms per square meter. why is the night sky black and doted with pin points of light?

10^22 what?
You want to know why you see so many stars if there's so "little" in space? Because we are in a galaxy were the stars are "close" to eachother. I guess between the galaxies there's a whole lot of nothing.

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#300463
Topic
(PDI Deluxe) VHS capture questions for those wiser than moi
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/300463/action/topic#300463
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Hi,

For my old analoge interlaced home camera footage I used a Canopus device that converts the analoge material to DV and the results were (as far as I know) always the same. But I'm from PAL country and don't know much about NTSC. But it sounds like whatever field enters the capture device first is turned into a top field. So if that field is already a top field nothing changes but if it is a bottom field that would explain the shifted scanline (vice versa if device starts with bottom field). Is that what you meant by "kicking in at either top or bottom field".
This sounds like a question for the doom9.org forum unless someone will come up with an answer .

Edit: this question is getting more interesting the more I think about it. My captured DVs are always bff (I think all DV is), so that means when capturing starts the device starts at the first bf it encounters or field order is changed if it starts at a tf.