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#305689
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LOST
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305689/action/topic#305689
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Originally posted by: Zion
You sound like a producer. The strike isn't about a few unknown writers who didn't read their contracts before they signed then. This is about EVERY writer in America trying to get what they deserve before digital distribution grows out of its infancy. And it isn't the writers' fault that there won't be any new shows for the time being. This could have been resolved months ago before the writers ever went on strike.

Anyway, I can't wait to see what happens in the new season. Even though we only get 8 episodes now, we should get a 24-episode season after the strike ends.


The writers have now lost more money due to the strike then they hoped to gain in their new deal. That sounds like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

The studios are actually resolving it. They're creating more and more reality TV, where they don't need writers. The ratings might be low, but they're higher then constant repeats. I'm sure the studios would rather take in some money from ads and ratings by putting on crappy reality tv instead of putting on repeats that no one's going to watch anyway.

I'm so sick of the strike that, depending how and when it ends, I probably won't be watching anymore TV period (beyond Discovery, History, TLC, etc).
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#305688
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305688/action/topic#305688
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Originally posted by: ChainsawAsh
Or the people who get a 2.39:1 movie and get upset that "If I have a widescreen TV, why are there still bars there? There shouldn't be any!" It greatly upsets me.


That got me the first time I tried playing a widescreen movie. I think I spent about an hour on the Internet and reading my TVs manual trying to figure it out. I had no idea that some wide movies had different aspect ratios than others. Now that I know it, it doesn't bother me.
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#305683
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305683/action/topic#305683
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
HOW IS THE JAVA SCRIPT COMING ALONG IN BR ??? I REMEMBER IT NOT BEING READY WHEN SONY RUSHED TO GET BR OUT IN THE MARKET IN ORDER TO COMPETE WITH HD-DVD.

Just a correction here, it's not Javascript, it's Java. Don't get the two confused. Javascript actually has nothing to do with Java. Javascript is actually incredibly easy to code, whereas Java is not.

That's one of the things that I think will slow adoption of the Java portion of Blu-ray. The studios want easy to use software that lets them make menus of whatever complexity they desire. They don't want to have to hire programmers to make their menus though. Java will require some level of complexity that's more than just making menus.

Originally posted by: dumb_kid
I think this is what MBJ has been getting at. Once HD-DVD is gone, what makes you think the studios are going to use a higher bitrate? They have no incentive to do that. "We'll get better picture quality!" The studios don't care. All they care about is making money. With HD-DVD gone, that'll be one less expense. Why bother with going with a higher bitrate when the picture looks fine as it is?

Actually studios do care when the consumer cares. When DVDs first came out they many were still P&S, or if you were lucky 4x3 letterboxed. Today DVDs are almost all anormorphic widescreen (minues the GOUT of course). Studios are not friends-- they are direct competitors. I'm thrilled that the format war caused many good things... rapid player price drops, dumping of MPEG2, BOGO sales, etc. But just like DVD, when there is a lone HD format, studios will continue to innovate... at least to double dip from early adopters


Funny how I still see full screen releases of DVDs. In an age of widescreen tvs and DVD players that can automatically letterbox, full screen should've gone away a long time ago. You have no idea how many times I'm at someones house and they've got the full screen version of a movie because "Oh, I didn't even notice". Ugh! So when they watch it on their widescreen HDTV, the picture looks stretched and distorted instead of the way it should look. It is so annoying!
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#305680
Topic
Star Wars: The Best of 2007 (Looking Back at 30 Years)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305680/action/topic#305680
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Well, I don't think it's going to replace any of the things you mentioned. Rental didn't replace buying movies and tv shows. On demand didn't replace rental. Rental/On demand hasn't replaced watching movies/tv shows on TV through regular channels. It'll just be an additional revenue stream. It'll be great for people who don't want to own it and only want to watch it once. For people, like me, who want to hear commentary tracks and see making ofs and behind the scenes footage, it won't go anywhere. It's something that I would use, but I wouldn't use it exclusively. Some programs I want to hear commentary, others I could care less. For those ones, this box is perfect.
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#305677
Topic
Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305677/action/topic#305677
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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi


For the moron of the boards. That's the AACS code for BOTH Blu-ray and HD-DVD.
But Blu-Ray still has BD+. Have fun upgrading your Blu-Ray players everytime someone cracks the latest movie title.


Yes, I know. I was simply pointing out that they key posted by sean is for both Blu-ray and HD-DVD.

Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Think about it - while in competition with HD-DVD, what you are getting from BR is the same encode/quality with a more expensive player ! WHAT A BARGAIN! What, then, is the value of Blu-Ray? Even the list given by dumb_kid doesn't break 40Gbs. I'm wondering how many of those discs are breaking 30Gnbs due to extra features such as extra commentaries (which would benefit from a higher bitrate) or extra material. That being said, I'm all for the extra material, but I don't think you are going to see video encodes with higher bitrates when HD-DVD is gone. There's no point at that point.


I think this is what MBJ has been getting at. Once HD-DVD is gone, what makes you think the studios are going to use a higher bitrate? They have no incentive to do that. "We'll get better picture quality!" The studios don't care. All they care about is making money. With HD-DVD gone, that'll be one less expense. Why bother with going with a higher bitrate when the picture looks fine as it is?
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#305665
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305665/action/topic#305665
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
Originally posted by: lordjedi
Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
THERE WAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY STATING THAT THOSE WHO CAN'T AFFORD TO UPGRADE THERE TVs TO HD WILL BE GIVEN A CONVERTER BOX FOR FREE. IT'S LIKE WELFARE FOR TV.

That's not what it said and you know it. What it said is that you'll get a $40 voucher toward the purchase of a digital tuner. While I agree that it's lame to subsidize the conversion the way they are, please don't twist the message to suit your needs. Anyone who decides to stop watching ota broadcasts at that point just won't buy a box and won't need the voucher. It also doesn't affect anyone that's already got cable or DirectTV/Dish Network, since that's all digital now anyway, whether their TVs are or not.

I'm with zombie on this. The transition isn't going to do anything but piss a lot of people off. A lot of people will think they need to get an HD television in order to get the new signal and I'm sure many stores will not have a problem selling it like that. Only afterwards, when they talk to someone that really knows, will they get the whole story. Then they'll be pissed that they spent so much money on a TV when they really didn't need to.

Then, on the other side, you'll have people that already watch very little TV, so unless the commercials start running 24/7, they won't notice them and will get pissed when they're looking at snow on the cutoff day. I watch a lot of TV and I've only seen the ad once. If they're really trying to inform people, that ad needs to be running constantly.

The government should've kept their nose out of the transition. The marketplace will decide. The marketplace was already deciding. Let the analog broadcasts slowly fade away until there's nothing left broadcasting. But no, they had to force a transition to reclaim the spectrum.


FIRST OF ALL, DON'T BE AN ASS. SECOND, MY POST WAS REFERRING TO MY POST BEFORE THAT.


And I think my post still stands. 1) No one has to take advantage of the $40 voucher, 2) People may not even hear about this voucher (I've now seen the ad 3 times in one week, that's still not enough), and 3) People may end up deciding not to upgrade their equipment, especially if the writer's strike continues and all we're left with is reality programming. Who wants to see that in digital? If my TV went dark and all I had watched was reality tv, I'd probably just start watching my DVDs. Fuck the TV! If you're watching network television, there isn't anything good on anyway. If you watch TLC, History, Discovery, or the Science Channel, then you're not going to need the voucher (the commercial actually clearly states that).

Originally posted by: sean wookie
Ok buy Blu-Ray if you love to suck the cock of DRM and the MPAA.
Never forget:
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0


For the moron of the boards. That's the AACS code for BOTH Blu-ray and HD-DVD.
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#305540
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305540/action/topic#305540
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Originally posted by: C3PX
It is still the principal of the matter. I want to be able to install my games internet free. You say I can install it and then set it to offline mode so it wont ever need to access the internet again, but what if I want to uninstall it to free up disk space then sometime down the road wish to play it again. No matter what they do, they will never stop piracy and in the end they will just irritate honest users. Also what if I want to sell my game later on, is that even possible? Doesn't steam register it to me thus making the original discs about as useless as a pirated copy if I want to sell them or pass them on to somebody else? I could be wrong on that one, I am not sure how it works. Also what if I pack the game away, and come across it 20 years down the line, won't I need to remember my old user name and password if I every want to use them again? Or does it just check to make sure the discs are the originals? That would be more reasonable, but still very annoying.


If you want to uninstall it, what you can do is "Backup local game content". You simply backup the game to disc, burn it to CD or DVD, then uninstall it. Later on, when you reinstall, you simple reinstall it and start playing in offline mode.

Also, you won't need to remember your username and password, you just simply don't login. As long as you're not playing a multiplayer game, you'll be fine. You'll simply be playing in offline mode.

The only thing you can't do is resell the games. Yes, they're tied to your Steam account and they haven't come up with a way to allow you to resell them. That never bothered me though since I've never resold a game in my life. Perhaps one day we'll have the ability to sell or give a game to someone else and transfer the game to them, but as of right now, that's not possible with Steam.
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#305538
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305538/action/topic#305538
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
THERE WAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY STATING THAT THOSE WHO CAN'T AFFORD TO UPGRADE THERE TVs TO HD WILL BE GIVEN A CONVERTER BOX FOR FREE. IT'S LIKE WELFARE FOR TV.


That's not what it said and you know it. What it said is that you'll get a $40 voucher toward the purchase of a digital tuner. While I agree that it's lame to subsidize the conversion the way they are, please don't twist the message to suit your needs. Anyone who decides to stop watching ota broadcasts at that point just won't buy a box and won't need the voucher. It also doesn't affect anyone that's already got cable or DirectTV/Dish Network, since that's all digital now anyway, whether their TVs are or not.

I'm with zombie on this. The transition isn't going to do anything but piss a lot of people off. A lot of people will think they need to get an HD television in order to get the new signal and I'm sure many stores will not have a problem selling it like that. Only afterwards, when they talk to someone that really knows, will they get the whole story. Then they'll be pissed that they spent so much money on a TV when they really didn't need to.

Then, on the other side, you'll have people that already watch very little TV, so unless the commercials start running 24/7, they won't notice them and will get pissed when they're looking at snow on the cutoff day. I watch a lot of TV and I've only seen the ad once. If they're really trying to inform people, that ad needs to be running constantly.

The government should've kept their nose out of the transition. The marketplace will decide. The marketplace was already deciding. Let the analog broadcasts slowly fade away until there's nothing left broadcasting. But no, they had to force a transition to reclaim the spectrum.
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#305529
Topic
Star Wars: The Best of 2007 (Looking Back at 30 Years)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305529/action/topic#305529
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Originally posted by: zombie84
The latest word from LFL is that there won't be any more video releases until its on HD, and they aren't going with HD until the format war is over.


They also said that they might just go straight to digital downloads if the format war doesn't get decided soon. With Netflix making that deal with LG to deliver a set top box that'll download HD content to your TV, I can easily see LFL decide to go that route instead. That would save them the costs of distribution and they'd be able to completely control where and when you can watch it. They wouldn't have to worry about people possibly ripping copies of the Blu-ray disc.

Mind you, I don't actually expect something like that to happen, but once again, I can easily see it happening. Putting all those things out on HD (Blu-ray) makes perfect sense, which is why I don't think it'll happen. Lucas hasn't done anything that's made sense in the last few years. Let's not forget that this is the same guy who claims to have 100 episodes done of an animated series, but he can't find anyone to air it. The last high profile DVD release they did was ROTS in 2005. The 2006 set didn't sell so well (gee, I wonder why with everyone already having the 2004 set) and I fully expect that if the animated series has to be released on DVD that it won't sell to well either. I know that no matter how good it looks, I'm not going to spend a dime on it.
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#305465
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Star Wars: The Best of 2007 (Looking Back at 30 Years)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305465/action/topic#305465
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Originally posted by: bigbaddaddyvader
Bottom line:
A comprehensive Star Wars set in either HD-DVD or Blu-Ray (i would say it is more likely to be Blu-Ray) containing SE's,OOt and theatrical and other versions of the PT plus bonuses will happen over the next couple of years.There is a boatload of cash to be made from it so that is what drives LFL so it will happen.The average consumer,diehard and casual fan alike will buy a comprehensive set like that so it is a cash-in waiting to happen.What you guys think that it wont happen before the release of the live-action show to hype that up?


No, I don't. Here's why. How long did it take Lucas to embrace DVD? That's right, it wasn't until AFTER TPM came out, sometime in 2000 or 2001 and that was only TPM. We didn't get the trilogy (I refuse to call the SEs the OT) until after AOTC came out (the 2004 set). Knowing that, I just don't believe we'll see the SEs on Blu-ray before the end of the decade (sometime after 2010 maybe). We will never see the OOT on Blu-ray. Lucas has made it abundantly clear that those movies no longer exist to him. I wouldn't even put it past him to write something into his will to completely prevent the OOT from ever seeing the light of day as a proper release.

Besides all that, weren't the prequels shot in 1k resolution? Doesn't that essentially keep them from ever having a 1080p release? Someone else will have to weigh in on that, but I seem to remember that the cameras they used only shot up to 1k, so it's impossible to get them in 1080p. Sure, they might see a release as 720p, but they'll never look as good as the SEs, which can be released as 1080p (and if I'm not mistaken, have aired as 1080p).

Cash doesn't seem to drive Lucas anymore. If it did, then he wouldn't have released the 2006 set in 2006. He would've waited until May 2007 and done the release then, to coincide with the hype of the 30th Anniversary. The 2004 set was driven by cash, as can be seen by all the flaws in the remastering and the reluctance to simply delay it a little longer to fix those flaws before releasing it.
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#305460
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"The People Vs. George Lucas" documentary...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305460/action/topic#305460
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Originally posted by: PvsG
Snip...

Happy New Year!


How is this unlike the other documentaries that have come before? Every documentary on SW fans, that I know of, has been done by SW fans as well. Sure, they usually end up being gush fests, but I think that's just because the ones like us (OT.com) don't go to the shows where the documentarians are at. So the only difference here is that you're going to include the whiners as well as the gushers. *shrug*

I really doubt this will have any effect on Lucas or push him to "make his case". The man simply doesn't care. He has said numerous times "This is my definitive vision". Sure, that keeps changing, but no amount of "Lucas, why did you change this?!" is going to make him do anything. More likely, this will just make him keep seeing this community as a bunch of whiners instead of preservationists.

IMO, Lucas simply cannot be counted in the same league as Spielberg, Ridley Scott, or any other director that wants to release their own definitive version as well as the original in a proper release. What the fans really need to do is stop hanging on his every word and stop buying up all his crap. Once he's unable to sell anything with the SW name on it, only then will he get the hint. Until that happens though, he's going to keep going with business as usual.
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#305458
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305458/action/topic#305458
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Yeah, I know it isn't that bad, but I would be one of those assholes who complain about steam. For me it really isn't a matter of complaining about everything, but really just the principal of the matter. I'd like to think that someday I could play all my games that I spent my money on with my computer without having to worry about being connected to the internet. What happens if Valve goes bottom up? Or if there is a great worldwide economic collapse and the internet becomes a thing of the past? Or if some strange ancient germ renders the entire population (including Valve's IT guys) into blood thirsty vampires with myself as the sole survivor living in my own fortified honky paradise and I get tired of playing chess against a granite bust and decide to play some Half-Life 2...

Or perhaps I just want to be able to play my games without having to go online and varify the validity of my honestly purchased product while the guy who pirates it gets to play it internet free.


Hmm, I can't help you with that last part (about the Vampires ), but from what I've read on the Steam forums, Valve seems to have given some indications that if they ever went belly up, they'd update all their games to release them from Steam. So in other words, if they went bankrupt, you wouldn't need Steam to play them anymore. But it's not like you need Steam to play them, after the initial install, right now. Simply set Steam to offline mode after verifying the files and that's that. No more need to go online. You can even set the game to not auto-update. That way, if you ever need to go back online, it won't try to download any updates.

The guy who pirates it gets to play it Internet free, but he doesn't get any updates. I don't know if that means much to you, but it means something to me. I would say Valve has the best anti-pirating system right now. Compare Steam to 2k Games Bioshock activation or COD4 PunkBuster crap. Steam and VAC are a much better system that give far fewer headaches.
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#305440
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305440/action/topic#305440
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Originally posted by: lordjedi
... Steam...

Just hearing that word makes me shudder. I really want to play Half-Life 2, I really do, have for a long time, but not only does my computer fall short as far as system requirements go, the whole steam thing makes me to hesitate considering the possibility of buying it even after my next computer upgrade. The Orange Box seems really cool though.

What part of Steam makes you hesitate? You only have to be online during the initial install in order to decrypt the files. After that, you can simply switch to offline mode and play like that. You can also backup your games onto discs so you don't have to download the content each time you get a new computer. And with Steam, all your games are a simple download away. As long as you have an internet connection, you can access all your games.

Originally posted by: Stinky-Dinkins
Are you asking me if I know you can launch things with the Grav Gun?
Uh, yeah.
It wouldn't work nearly as easily as you'd think it would, it would probably be just as frustrating as wedging it in the buggy and getting out over and over again to put it back in like I did to do it.
It's not like you can just keep launching it easily right where you want to either, the driving portions are hardly linear.


Actually, there's at least a few spots where the driving is linear. The straight roads between the map loads and the section where the helicopter chases you are pretty linear. With everything else, you should be able to punt it over the hills and find it again after driving around all the curves.

I know it doesn't work that easily, but it makes it a lot easier than trying to keep it in the car.

Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
It's a 52 inch screen, and the failure of 720p has nothing to do with the titles; I can't use it even in the menu screen. I'm working right now under the assumption that this TV simply doesn't support progressive scan for anything higher than 480. As far as HDTVs go, it is fairly low-end. I'm not sure my X-Box model even supports DVI or HDMI, and I know my TV doesn't have an HDMI input. Plus, I have the component cables already.

I tested out Assassin's Creed on 1080i and 480p and the 1080 looked much better, interlaced or not, so I'm leaving it there.


What's the make and model of the TV? It may at least have a DVI input. I'm pretty sure that if it can do 1080i, it should easily be able to do 720p.
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#305428
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305428/action/topic#305428
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Originally posted by: Stinky-Dinkins
The garden gnome thing is really, really fun if you're into complete frustration.

I did that shit.... and driving around in the crazy buggy only to have the fucking Travelocity gnome go flying out anytime you turn the slightest amount was just great. Drive for about 20 feet. Get out, put the gnome back in. Drive 20 feet, and watch the gnome go flying once again.

Great.

Um, you do know that you can "punt" the gnome several hundred feet at a time with the grav gun, right? Most people that attempt that achievement do it that way. You save game, punt the gnome a fair distance, then drive up and grab him. The only place this gets difficult is when the helicopter is chasing you toward the rebel hideout. In that area, you absolutely must leave Alyx and the car behind, punt the gnome, and save often. If you go to far, you lose for leaving Alyx behind. Once you've gone a fair distance, you go back for Alyx and the car.

Wash, rinse, repeat. If it was easy to do, it wouldn't be an "Achievement". Note, that I haven't done it yet, but everyone on the steam forums will tell you that what I said is how you can do it. Just make sure you're logged into the Steam community beforehand, otherwise all your effort will be wasted.

Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Okay. So I freely admit to being an HD newbie. We got a widescreen HD-TV, rear projection, for Christmas. I'm trying to test out my X-Box 360 with the HD component cables, but 1080p and 720p both fail to work right. My options are 1080i and 480p. I was wondering if someone who knows a bit more about these resolutions knows which would be better for basic gaming display.


1080i should be fine and unless you're a videophile or you see a fast action sequence, you probably won't notice the interlacing. You're better off using a DVI cable or an HDMI cable though. Do the titles you're playing support 1080p? I'm not sure why 720p would fail unless the titles aren't even in that resolution. How big is the screen?
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#305427
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Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305427/action/topic#305427
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Originally posted by: zombie84
Big, big news today.

Warner is dumping HD-DVD and going Blu-Ray exclusive.

The format war is over. I don't think HD-DVD will live to see 2009.


Actually, Paramounts agreement was to be exclusively HD-DVD for 18 months. That means that if they're going to release any HD titles at all, they'll have to be HD-DVD. Assuming Universal doesn't cave and switch to Blu-ray, they'll be the only two studios left still releasing on HD-DVD. I don't see that happening though.

I think you're right. What I see happening is Universal switching to Blu-ray and then Paramount doing one of the following 1) find someway out of the deal, 2) don't release any hi-def movies until mid 2009 since they're just going to have to re-release them all at that point anyway, or 3) release HD-DVD titles until mid 2009 and then re-release everything as Blu-ray (this would be stupid).

I would think that the agreement would be broken if the HD-DVD group ceases to exist. And I would assume that would happen if no one was releasing titles on HD-DVD anymore. So if Universal switches to Blu-ray and Paramount stops releasing HD titles for a few months, that could be all that's necessary to completely kill it. Of course, since Microsoft is part of the HD-DVD group and they've got money to burn, they could easily prop the group up for months or years if necessary.

As much as I did not support Blu-ray, this format war needs to end if hardware prices are ever going to come down. I only hope that the price of BD burners gets incredibly cheap in the next year.
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#305342
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I am Legend
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305342/action/topic#305342
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Originally posted by: Johnny Ringo
Don't forget he had gas tanks and other goodies stored around the house...


Don't get me started on that. Gas goes bad over time. He was living on an island for 3 years. He was siphoning fuel from gas stations for that long. Even if he could've gotten usable fuel from one gas station for some time, the other gas stations fuel would've surely gone bad by the time he got to them.

Also, how exactly did he maintain that SUV? Did he just keep finding new cars to use? He would've had to re-equip the car everytime he got a new one.

I would've been much happier with the movie if he'd actually been forced to live like it was the stoneage. No power, no fuel, no nothing. I know the point was that he needed all that stuff in order to do his research and find a cure, I just thought it was insane that he was actually able to keep it all going. I know I shouldn't be asking to have all these things explained, but if you're going to show him siphoning fuel, you might as well have him explain everything else. The power grid could probably be kept running for at least a little while and I suppose you could just break in and hack the systems to keep the power on.
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#305253
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305253/action/topic#305253
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Originally posted by: sean wookie
Anyone get The Orange Box? Portal is the best game this year!!


Last year.

And yeah, Portal is pretty friggin awesome.


I just finished the advanced map achievements last night. I only have a few more left. Portal is very awesome! For multiplayer, TF2 is where it's at (in the Orange Box at least).
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#305251
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Religion
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305251/action/topic#305251
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Originally posted by: sean wookie
If you don't realize I was joking there. Half the stuff I say is a joke.
But Huckabee is a nut case. I don't mind religious candidates at all but he is just going a bit too far. I have a feeling Obama will be our next president. Can't say he is my favorite choice but I like him.


LOL. I'm sorry Sean, but everyone around here knows how you feel about religion, so you'll have to excuse me if I see your comments as anything but laughable.

On one hand, we have Romney telling us that he won't let his religion affect his policy and on the other we have Huckabee all but saying that his religion will affect his policy. Your religion is part of you, how can you not let it affect public policy? I'm not saying that the Mormon church would be telling him how to govern, but how can anyone believe that "I won't let my religion influence my decisions". Bull.

So Sean, what exactly are you referring to with Huckabee? I haven't really been keeping up with what each and every candidate has been saying lately, so the only thing that comes to mind is the "cross commercial". I saw the commercial and it was pretty obvious that it was a bookcase, nothing more. Even Alan Colmes on Fox News said "OK, that's a bookcase" even though the headline was "Huckabee uses floating cross in latest ad".

So Sean, how exactly is he suppose to act? He's a Baptist Minister, of course he's going to invoke religion. Not invoking religion would be like a Catholic Priest running for President and not invoking religion. It should practically be expected.
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#305008
Topic
Star Wars: The Best of 2007 (Looking Back at 30 Years)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/305008/action/topic#305008
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Originally posted by: CO
I think this is whole problem with SW fandom, we expect something every year even though we shouldn't, and mostly because Lucas never does things right in the first place! So it is sort of a double edge sword to being a fan these days.


I don't know about you, but I keep hoping they'll stop talking about SW and finally move on to something else. Ya know, just like he said he would after Ep 3. I think as long as he keeps talking about SW, the fans will keep getting hyped up waiting for "the next big thing". Mind you, the fans I'm referring to are probably mostly hanging out on TFN, still buying SW toys and other collectibles, and watching the 6 movies in order from 1-6 (typing that was hard, especially since I don't even acknowledge the existence of 1-3). The rest of us have moved on. Yeah, we still watch the original trilogy from time to time, but we're not analyzing every frame and every shot and we're certainly not buying the umpteenth repack of some Anakin Skywalker figure.

If Lucas would just move on, so would everyone else. Maybe once the cash starts to dry up, he will move on to something else, but I'm not holding my breath.

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#304981
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The Dark Knight (Batman Begins Returns Again)
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
THE BATMOBILE BECAME THE BATBULLIT IN BATMAN RETURNS.


Yeah, but that was through a modification that let him get through a tight alley. There's no reason to believe that if he had made it back to the Batcave that the car couldn't have been "reset".

That change was nothing compared to the cartoon that the Batmobile became in the following movies. Instead of building something newer and better, they built something that looked ridiculous and, as far as I remember, had no additional functionality.
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#304980
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I am Legend
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Now that I've seen it, I really don't think the CG was that bad. Sure, it's obvious, but no more obvious than Spiderman was. I honestly didn't even notice it during the fast breathing scenes, I noticed it more when the "vampires" were screaming.

I didn't really like the movie that much either. I guess you can say it ends on a high note, but I just didn't like the ending.

Are we allowed to post spoilers in here? I've got a ton of problems with this movie, but most of them can only be talked about in the context of spoiling the movie.
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#304939
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The Dark Knight (Batman Begins Returns Again)
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
I HATED THAT IN THE PREVIOUS BATMAN SERIES OF MOVIES THAT THEY KEPT CHANGING THE BATMOBILE.


Uh, wasn't it Schumacher that changed it? It was the same one in Batman and Batman Returns. It wasn't until Batman 3 that we got that lame looking thing. And I don't know what they did to it in Batman 4 because I have never, and probably will never, seen it.
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#304931
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The Dark Knight (Batman Begins Returns Again)
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What's the timeframe of this movie? How long after Batman Begins does it take place? I don't know my Batman history, but I'm kind of surprised they're keeping the Tumbler as is. I was under the impression that it started out as a big vehicle, but then slowly progressed into a streamlined, but still kick ass, vehicle. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with the Tumbler design. I actually think it looks really cool. I do kind of miss the Batmobile from Batman though. Sleek, powerful, and fast.