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#313678
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Moscow Soon to Be Lone Carrier to Space Station
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313678/action/topic#313678
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RRS-1980 said:

lordjedi said:

RRS-1980 said:

Let me tell you a story - aviation technology is fairly close to space technology, right?

Um, no. In space[...]

LOL, thank you, you've proven yourself to be just another forum "troll" with little to none knowledge on the subject - and because of this I'll save time I'd otherwise waste e.g. translating a 10 page article to back up my words.

If you still can't get it: I gave you examples of how Soviets neglected safety rules in the aviation branch. You said that space technology requires even tighter safety policies because of hostile environment. So if those guys failed at the "easy skill level" (aviation), then how more dangerous are their spacecraft? ("the harder skill level")
And do try to understand that you won't be hiring solely Russian technology, which in your eyes is almost flawless. You will get the whole system that comes with it (the remains of their space program: infrastructure, policies, equipment & tech etc.) - and that includes people, too. Re-read your own words about the human error...

Alright, enough time wasted...


I see. So by your example, since SouthWest Airlines failed to properly inspect a bunch of their own airplanes (can't remember the number, but they're grounded now), that would mean that our space program is even more prone to error. Do you not see the problem with that logic? It would be like saying the FAA is responsible for space safety. The FAA is responsible for issuing directives to the airlines. NASA is responsible for the safety of the space program.

And you've just proven yourself to be someone that wants to lump all the problems of one agency into the areas of another. There's a difference between malicious intent and clear misunderstanding. Obviously, in your statement, the aviation industry didn't want to fix the problem. I'd agree that during the space race, the Russians were more concerned with beating us to the punch at every turn instead of the safety of their astronauts. I also think the astronauts may have at least understood some of the risks but wanted to do it "for the motherland". That's obvious from the footage that's now available. And since the media was controlled by the state, news of their accidents never got out. But this isn't the 60's anymore. The state doesn't control the media anymore. You can't keep acting like the Russians have a crap space program when they've been sending guys into space as much as we have.

But maybe in Russia everything is handled by one single agency. I'd find that hard to believe though.
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#313658
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Mother arrested for leaving children "unattended"
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313658/action/topic#313658
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23594474/

This is totally asinine.

I use to leave my son in a locked car every morning before going off to work. I take him outside, put him in his car seat, then lock the car and go back inside to grab what I need for work. My biggest fear has always been some stupid neighbor or stupid cop thinking my child is "in danger" because he's strapped into the seat on a chilly morning in a locked car. The time limit in California for leaving a child unattended is 3 minutes. This was in Chicago, but it looks like she was within 30 feet for about 2 mins.

This is the type of stupid shit cops should get heat for. This guy wasn't enforcing the law (she was on her way back to the car when he stopped her), he was acting like a jerk. So now they might throw her in jail for a year and fine her. Yeah, that'll make the kids grow up so much better not having a mommy for a year. MORONS!
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#313657
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Moscow Soon to Be Lone Carrier to Space Station
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313657/action/topic#313657
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RRS-1980 said:

I would say like 15 years and I wouldn't be far from the truth. But this is not what I meant to say.


The shuttle has changed very little since the 70's (when it was developed). So by that logic, Soviet safety is SAFER. NASA hasn't changed much since the 70's.

RRS-1980 said:

Let me tell you a story - aviation technology is fairly close to space technology, right?


Um, no. In space, temperatures can range from -400 degrees in the shade to +400 degrees in the sun. Space tech needs to protect from that and from radiation. Aviation tech doesn't have any of those worries. Space tech also uses extremely explosive fuels in order to get into space. Again, jet fuel, for aviation tech, isn't nearly powerful enough.

RRS-1980 said:

After the World War 2 we were overrun by Soviets and all choices were limited to "made in USSR" ("sdielano v CCCP"). I'm not going to remind you about Chernobyl, but I'll give a more adequate example, to compare with the above:


What about Chernobyl? Are you going to remind us that it melted down because ALL the safety systems were disabled and a short quick electrical spike sent everything into overload in less than a second? Are you going to remind us that if they hadn't disabled ALL their safety systems that NOTHING would have happened? Chernobyl was caused by INTENTIONAL human error, not bad tech.
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#313332
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Moscow Soon to Be Lone Carrier to Space Station
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313332/action/topic#313332
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Darth Chaltab said:

I'm pretty uninterested. After Columbia I sort of got disillusioned with... not the idea of Space Travel, but the reality. I became convinced that our government stopped caring about a serious space program a long time ago.

So if using Russian systems keeps our astronauts safe until NASA finally makes a good new vehicle, so be it.


I hardly think that the government stopped caring about it. I think it's really the American public that stopped caring about it. Just look at the Apollo program. Once we landed on the moon, nobody cared after that until there was a disaster. Now, most people consider space flight to be "routine" so when there is a disaster they get in an uproar for a few weeks (if even that long) and wonder what happened. People have to be continually reminded that there's nothing "routine" about space flight.
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#313201
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New Indiana Jones DVD's - No Blu-Ray
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313201/action/topic#313201
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zombie84 said:

vbangle said:

Originally posted by: Mike O
Last I checked Amazon, the old Indy set is flying off the shelves, but these don't appear to be making much noise.


The old indy set was a complete POS. Hopefully this new set has a better transfer, better audio.



WTF? The old Indy set was fucking awesome dude. The picture was remastered by Lowry digital to a point where it probably looks cleaner than the original camera negative does. The audio was great too. You need to keep things in perspective: in 2003, there was no 5-disk sets. The Indy set was top-of-the-line, and it still holds up as an above-average set (especially considering it now retails for about $25-35).


Nu uh! They digitally removed the glass so you can't see the reflection anymore (I could never see it anyway), so it must be a gawd awful transfer!
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#313200
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Indiana Jones IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313200/action/topic#313200
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zombie84 said:

HotRod said:

Final one sheet

Looks a lot like the prequel posters to me.


Thats because its Drew Struzan, who did the prequel posters. I think his artwork is awesome. He's one of the top onesheet artists in the world.


But it's evil. It must be. And the movie is going to suck because of it. Since it looks like a prequel poster, it's going to suck like the prequels did.

Yeah, that kind of reasoning doesn't make sense to me either.
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#313165
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Soldier Shoots Dog With Smoke Round
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313165/action/topic#313165
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FanFiltration said:

Poor excuse. I don't buy it. The military leadership does not condone or excuse that type of animal abuse action, and I don't ether. But it seems a few of you do. It's that old "boys will be boys" mentality. I wonder why the Marine Commander did not come out with an excuse like Lordjedi's for his men? Could it be because it's nothing more than a bullshit excuse? I think so.


I don't. I think it's because it came to light. If the video had never been seen by anyone outside Iraq, we would've never heard anything about it. The commander didn't come out with that excuse because it's not 1) politically correct and 2) good PR. If he had said what I said, he would've gotten the smack down from someone even higher up.

FanFiltration said:

People had more of a problem with the U.S. killing innocent children and burning down villages in the Vietnam War, and rightfully so.


Yeah, because they were killing women and children!

And like it or not, we would've won that war if we had stuck it out. The "high as a kite" protesters and people like Hanoi Jane who still have never apologized for what they did during the war (treason) are what finally forced us out. The north vietnamese knew they couldn't win. They knew they had to drive morale down at home in order to get us to withdraw.

I was trying to draw a parallel to show the kind of shithole those guys are in and what it must do to your mind. I was not trying to draw a parallel between killing a dog and killing a person. In my mind, killing an innocent person is much worse.

FanFiltration said:

I for one feel the Internet is a great tool in an age where political leaders (such as Bush) have tried to curtail the media from telling negative stories from behind the lines.


And some of those men have also been reprimanded for giving away troop locations. There's a reason those videos should be screened. Not only to keep unwanted things from being seen, but to keep the enemy from knowing where you are.
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#313105
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Soldier Shoots Dog With Smoke Round
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313105/action/topic#313105
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Originally posted by: FanFiltration
The issue on this topic was that these soldiers stood around chuckling and teasing a disabled animal, and had made it all into a big joke for amusement only. This is just one example of their mental state, and these guys have guns. Make of it what you will, but I think it's clear that there was other options open to them other then the sadistic actions shown in the film clips. Why did they just not quickly shoot the dog? Yes that would have been the humane and cost effective thing to do. But no, they just stood around and acted like a group of high school boys making jokes and taunting the poor thing. Also, in the one film a soldier is saying how funny it was to see the limping dog in pain.


Do you know how old the average soldier is? 18-20 years old. So they ARE a group of high school boys making jokes. Dude, seriously, this is how they cope. How would you cope with seeing friends killed day in and day out during war. You cope by making jokes of things that are less sick then watching a friend die.

The mental state is that they're over in a shit hole country doing whatever they can to stay alive in case some IED blows up and kills them or a friend. The only other option would be to outright shoot the dog. Instead, they chose to have some fun with it. The ONLY reason this is even an issue is because todays soldier has access to cheap, easy to carry video cameras that he can use to upload the video to the Internet.

This would have been a non issue in Vietnam or any other war because you wouldn't have known about it. Since you know about it though, it suddenly becomes an issue.

I don't believe what's needed is better training though. What's needed is better screening for what these guys are accessing on the Internet. I think you'll find any commander hard pressed to come down on his subordinates over shooting a dog that was probably going to die anyway. This is just one more case where the guys in combat should not have access to the Internet or should have anything they end up filming screened.

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#313104
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Moscow Soon to Be Lone Carrier to Space Station
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313104/action/topic#313104
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Originally posted by: FanFiltration
Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
another one of our esteemed president's promises not kept, all hail the great bush!

read the article is pretty much spells it out that the lack of funding was because of the whitehouse and bush.

we have no money for space travel since we spent trillions of dollars on a war in Iraq where bin ladin was not there and no wmd.


BINGO!

NASA did have plans for a new craft years ago, but the funding for the new programs kept getting shot down from republican lawmakers who had held the majority in congress, as well as a war bent White House. The lay off at NASA is hurting people in my area of Florida big time. It's not just about a spacecraft, it's also about peoples jobs.

BTW, I'm going to go view the final night launch of a Space Shuttle ever. That's in about 9 hours from now. Should be one hell of a show.

FF


Got a source for that? According to what I just read http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012800967_2.html Bush has been pushing to get a base on the moon and then have trips go to Mars from there. From that article:

"Such bills, which authorize programs but do not appropriate money, are partly wish lists to be shaped later in spending bills, but the legislation left little doubt that lawmakers now regard Bush's vision as crucial to U.S. space policy.

"The bill is an affirmation of support," said John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's Space Policy Institute. "But it's also a challenge to the administration to pony up for the transformational space program it outlined two years ago.""

Also, according to this (I know it's a little old) http://www.space.com/spacenews/archive06/Debate_070306.html Nasa was getting a slight increase in funding. It's not what NASA wanted, but it is an increase. It also notes that the White House (the evil Bush administration) wanted 83 million more than what the Congress gave NASA.

Here's another one http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,333851,00.html. Looks like the jobs are being cut to refocus on the new craft, which apparently won't require the man power that the 30 year old shuttle requires.
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#313077
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Moscow Soon to Be Lone Carrier to Space Station
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313077/action/topic#313077
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Originally posted by: RRS-1980
Originally posted by: Arnie.d
But I'd rather have someone else fly people and equipment to the station for a few years if it's safer.

Sovi... err... Russia? Safer? ROTFLMAO! Ever seen dead astronauts being given CPR? Then watch documentaries about Soviet space program.

Cheaper? Yes.


Yes because of course the Russian space program hasn't moved in 30 years. Yeah, they're still using the same "safety" mechanisms they used from the 70's. Stop with the sky is falling bs.

I don't like it much either, but it's either that or continue to use unsafe craft to get there. Maybe, just maybe, if NASA had started working on a more advanced space system sooner, they wouldn't be in this predicament. Scientists were telling NASA for years (back in the 90's) that the shuttle needed to be upgraded or replaced. It wasn't until sometime in the past few years that NASA finally got off their butt and decided that yes, it's time for a new type of spacecraft. Having Columbia disintegrate on reentry probably helped them move along with that decision. And, adding to that, when they put the new sensors on the shuttle and realized that they were getting little cracks on every mission, lots and lots of people suddenly realized that the shuttle wasn't as safe as they had long thought.

So if we need to buy rides on the Russian system for 5 years, so be it. By the time it's finished, the new NASA craft will hopefully be far better than the shuttle or anything the Russian's have.
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#313007
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/313007/action/topic#313007
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Originally posted by: deespence2929
If the show is boring it could also hurt the box office too. The last terminator movie was released 5 years ago. If this show is their most recent memory of the series and it's a bad impression they could lose interest in seeing the movie. Also, most agree that cancelling Star Trek : TNG improved box office for star trek generations. In the long run the movies will probably bring in more money than a tv show. There are at least 3 more movies planned I believe.


Except that, at least here, you're the only one that finds the show to be boring. Having an average of 9.9 million viewers isn't bad. In fact, it's not that different from at least a few other shows like Prison Break and Bones. I know of only one show (not a reality program either) that has been an instant success in recent history and that's Heroes. Even 24 started out with less than 9 million viewers, but picked up another 2 million in its second season.

I think people agree with that about Star Trek simply because by cancelling TNG, Paramount could dump all the money for effects into a movie instead of putting it into the TV show and a movie. Not only that, but did you watch TNG after Season 5? It got horribly bad. It needed to be cancelled so the franchise could move forward. Of course, it looks like it's going to take a "reboot" in order to resurrect the franchise at this point.

In the long run, I can easily see the Terminator TV show getting better and getting more people to the box office. T4 just needs to be better than T3 was. That shouldn't be hard to do since T3 largely sucked.
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#312926
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312926/action/topic#312926
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Uh, not quite. According to this, Fox has a tendency to wait until May. The only show I know of in recent memory that not only had a full 22 episode Season 1 and was then renewed after just 13 episodes was Heroes. Even 24 didn't get a 2nd season until the end of the first.

TSCC wasn't going to be renewed almost instantly in the middle of a strike. Remember, the series started during the strike and the strike only ended a few weeks ago. Now that they know they can have the writers actually write the show, they can make a decision about bringing it back. And I tend to agree with that site I linked. With T4 coming next year, they'd be crazy not to renew it. There's no better way to build a following then to get people interested in a show and have those same people go see a movie.
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#312919
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312919/action/topic#312919
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Originally posted by: deespence2929
If they bring terminator back then they have to give other crap shows that don't prove themsellves a second chance two. I've heard a few people eager for cavemen to return on tv, or for its season dvd set. Just cause the source material "geico commmercials" was good don't mean that the tv shows will be good. Same with this tv series. Writers strike really is irrelevant cause the scripts were pretty much finalized before it started.


Fair enough. One problem though. They for Terminator is Fox. They for the Caveman show is ABC. According to Wikipedia, the shows ratings started ok but quickly fell. On the other hand, Terminator ratings have been much better. Even though episodes following the pilot haven't had as high of ratings, they've still had higher ratings than the caveman show. Those higher ratings, especially with nothing else on right now, are reason enough to bring it back for another season.
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#312850
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How much longer will the format war last?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312850/action/topic#312850
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Originally posted by: ferris209
Originally posted by: lordjedi
I don't know how they think they can stop it:

http://formatwarcentral.com/index.php/2008/01/20/more-on-chinse-blu-ray-disc-players/


No they won't stop it, but I'm sure that Sony won't go down without a no holds barred full on attorney brawl. Much like the establishment is trying to stop pirating movies and music, they make it more difficult and expensive, but they never stop it.


That'll be interesting to see. "We'll sue you!" "Um, go ahead, our country doesn't follow your laws". Look how long it took to crack down on Cyberhome for not licensing the DVD spec. Of course now, the other cheap player is the Coby, which looks almost exactly like the old Cyberhome. Hmm.
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#312819
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312819/action/topic#312819
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Originally posted by: ferris209
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Summer may be a little too far on the thin side, but damn she is hot. I find myself very attracted to her, maybe it could be she is a fellow Texan, we know how to build'em down here ya' know.

Totally agree. Watching her do that ballet I was like "Wow".

Originally posted by: deespence2929
It breaks my heart that people actually think this series with this cast deserve a season two to "finally" have a chance to prove itself. If they can't make a decent show in the first season then it doesn't deserve a second. Ratings aside. And summer glau terminator is still a stupid concept.


Um, why? I think any show that starts in the middle of a strike is going to need a second chance. But why is Summer as a terminator a stupid concept? Do Terminator's suddenly need to be all buff and decked out? It's freaking machine. Who cares if it's a little thin and looks dainty. All the better to kill you with when you think "it's just a little girl". If I was designing a machine to kill people that had to fool people into thinking it couldn't hurt them, that's exactly what I'd do.

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#312776
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How much longer will the format war last?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312776/action/topic#312776
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Originally posted by: Windexed
I agree. I have roughly 100 dvds and probably 20 HD titles, and I've watched/utilized the special features for maybe 5 of them altogether. I just want to watch the feature, MF!

Well, actually, I've watched all the special features of every disc I own and I probably have about 50 DVDs.

Originally posted by: ferris209
http://www.slashgear.com/bda-manages-blu-ray-market-price-to-keep-the-value-from-falling-to-dirt-cheap-like-dvd-player-0610641.php#more-10641

Yep, this Blu-ray is a wonderful idea. Gentlemen, we have effectively sold our souls to the devil. That's just my feeling though.


How exactly do they expect to stop them? Oh no, they're not licensing the Blu-ray tech, so they can't put the "Blu-ray" label on the player. I'm sure no chinese manufacturer will bother buying a Blu-ray player and then reverse engineer it. Then, they'll simply sell it as a slightly more expensive, but still very cheap, DVD player (it'll have the DVD logo on it). Internet message boards will catch wind of it and everyone will just order them online. Do they seriously think that just because it's not "licensed" that people won't be able to get them?

Originally posted by: zombie84
I honestly never thought that those discount chinese DVD players had much effect. I payed $300 for my DVD player in 2001, and I'd pay that much again now; most of the discount players suck and are poorly made, and honestly what is $200 difference for a player when you will be spending hundreds and probably actually thousands of dollars on disks? Disk price is the real factor here. Players are a one-time investment, so having to pay $300 for a decent player instead of $99 for a lesser one is honestly the least of our worries. Disk prices have been falling steadily, lets hope that nothing stops this aspect, not the hardware one.


Are you kidding? I bought a Cyberhome player at Best Buy for $50. It plays everything I throw in it. I could've spent $200 or $300, but why? The cheap player plays just as good as those. People are going to see the $50 DVD player and wonder why the Blu-ray player is $200 (4 times the cost). It doesn't offer 4 times the quality. Some people might be willing to pay that price right now, but the way they're handling it is just going to slow adoption. Rather than let the market decide, they're basically trying to control the price. And why? So the Chinese can't make a cheap player. Seriously, the enthusiasts are always going to spend more on their players. The average person doesn't care if the output quality of his Chinese player is slightly less than the $300 player. What they do care about though is the ability to play any disc they buy anywhere (yes, even traveling abroad or ordered online). A LOT of people got mad with region locked DVD players, which is why they ended up buying the cheap Chinese ones, since those let you either unlock the region or just change it.

Price controls are a huge worry. If Sony tries to keep the price high, which is what it looks like they're doing, then people will not buy them. There is no format war any longer. A $300 player today should be $150 or less by next year. No one needs to churn out anything other than Blu-ray players, so there's really no excuse for keeping the price high.
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#312772
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312772/action/topic#312772
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Am I the only one that didn't like some aspects of the last two episodes? First, they take the highly advanced CPU and stick it in what appears to be a PCIe slot. If the original Judgment Day was August 29, 1997, I think it's safe to assume that the technology would not necessarily have gone in that direction. I know it's a nitpick, but I have a real problem when they do that in shows like this. Yeah, let's use a piece of tech from 2007/8 to read an advanced piece of tech that was probably not designed for the tech from 2007/8.

My second problem was right after that, they start invoking Moore's law. Again, if the CPU from 1997 were that far advanced (we're led to believe in T2 that it was the most advanced thing they'd ever seen), it would be light years ahead of a PCIe slot.

Third, I'm having a hard time accepting the "Sometimes they go bad, no one knows why". So they were able to reprogram a terminator (T2), set it's CPU to read only, and make it not kill people and follow orders from John Connor, yet it might "go bad"? It's a computer. I didn't really even like the terminator in T3 being able to override the programming that the other one gave it (one among many problems with that movie). But since they're disregarding T3, then that never happened.

I just don't think we needed this whole subplot of Cameron acting shady and a T-888 integrating itself into a marriage. I'll probably watch it some more, assuming they bring it back. I just hope they stop trying to use today's tech to access advanced future tech.
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#312691
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New Indiana Jones DVD's - No Blu-Ray
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312691/action/topic#312691
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It would be nice if it was released on both formats (DVD and Blu-ray) and not just being rereleased to tie in with the new Indy film. This really smacks of LFLs practice of rereleasing the Star Wars movies everytime something Star Wars is going to come out. If you want to send a real message, don't buy this. Personally, I got the boxed set when it came out a few years back. I'll rebuy it when it comes out on Blu-ray and not until then.

We can only hope they release all the movies on Blu-ray after Indy 4 has its theatrical run.
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#312602
Topic
How much longer will the format war last?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312602/action/topic#312602
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I don't think this is going to effect sales of Blu-ray to anyone but the enthusiast market. Most lay people just aren't going to give two shits about being able to play along with the movie. The enthusiasts will just hold off until a "proper" release is available.

The studios can try to double dip with these interactive features all day long. Their core market though, people who just want to watch movies, aren't going to take the bait. They'll probably rebuy all their HD-DVD titles on Blu-ray when they're released, but they're not going to worry about making sure that every last missing scene or documentary is on the disc.
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#312469
Topic
Wookie Groomer's 1080p Star Wars Saga project (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312469/action/topic#312469
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Is this the first time the Ultra editions have been posted to usenet? I swore I grabbed everything WG posted a while back (a million thanks for all your work WG!), but I don't see these on any of my drives. The post also doesn't say repost. So would I be correct in assuming that the V2 Ultra Edition hasn't been posted before now (now being February 2008)?