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#288796
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So, um... no new DVD's announced this year?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288796/action/topic#288796
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Mielr, tell your niece to get the HD channels. The difference is like night and day. On a bad day, yeah, the over compressed stuff looks nasty, but most of the time it looks beautiful. I've found that it's more the SD channels that get over compressed and look like hell than it is the HD channels.

SD channels still look bad on a 50" HDTV CRT (that's what I have) if you're closer than 10 ft. From 20 ft away they look alright (my couch is 20 ft away, across the room), but HD still looks a ton better.
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#288793
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So, um... no new DVD's announced this year?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288793/action/topic#288793
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Originally posted by: ESHBG
Here's my take on it all in another thread:

On a related note, I noticed that the prices on HD-DVD players have really dropped. With The Matrix trilogy now on the format, I'm sure LFL won't be too far behind. Since Fox is with Blu-ray (correct?) imagine how big of a push that format would get if the SW movies were released on it! Knowing Lucas, he's not going to let this opportunity slide...


Bwahahaha. The DVD format was finalized in 1995. Lucas said, in 1999, no Star Wars on DVD until the 3 prequels are done. Lucas and Spielberg were both pusing for DIVX. Knowing Lucas' history, he will indeed let this opportunity slide. He'll hold out until the next great format and then he'll release Star Wars on BD or HD (whichever happens to win).

The Matrix was released on DVD in 1999, a full 2 years before TPM got a DVD release and 7 years before the OOT would be available. Lucas said on more than one occasion that he was releasing the OT on DVD in order to combat "rampant piracy", even though Star Wars had been available on chinese bootleg DVDs (5 star collection anyone?) for many years.

Lucas might be a forerunner when it comes to cinema, but he seems to "miss the boat" when it comes to home video.
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#288620
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A Crime, but Not by the Man Doing It
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288620/action/topic#288620
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Wow, this thread sure went to shit.

Originally posted by: JediSage
You're right. Whatever. Keep happily becoming a drone, and buy all the shit they yell at you about in the commercials.


What are these things you speak of called commercials? 90% of what I watch is recorded onto a DVR. It gets recorded, then an hour or two after (sometimes a day or two), it gets watched. I fast forward through all the commercials, except for the occasional one that catches my eye as it's flying by (generally movie trailers and anything that has repetitive imagery). Even half of those commercials get skipped if they don't look interesting. I'd say I skip about 99% of commercials now.

I buy very little based on commercials. Most of the time if I do buy something based on the commercial, it's because I thought the commercial was so good that I want to see more like it. Even those things are generally quite inexpensive and it's usually only a one time purchase.

All that aside, just because some of us watch tv doesn't make us drones. It's simply another form of entertainment. Be it books, movies, radio, or whatever else. Some people get more pleasure from books. Some people get it from tv and movies. Both could easily be considered "drones". 90% of the books in any category are the same thing. 90% of what's on tv is the same thing. One is no better than the other. The only difference is that books increase your vocabulary and help your imagination. TV can do the same thing if you want it to.
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#288532
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A Crime, but Not by the Man Doing It
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288532/action/topic#288532
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Originally posted by: JediSage
My point in bringing this all up was not to equate anything with anything, but to "raise awareness" (God, I hate that phrase) about reading in general. How many adults would know who wrote The Idiot? Or Walden and Civil Disobedience? Or Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde?

Yes, what this guy did was most likely a publicity stunt, but let's face facts. Think about how much time we spend in front of the tube (I don't CARE what it is), how much time surfing the web (non-business related), playing video games, etc. Does your reading time REALLY amount to more time than that?


So what? So we should all read more so twits like this can feel good about the country? What..ev..er.

As long as you're doing something that enriches your mind, who cares what it is. Playing games increases hand eye coordination. You can learn things from the TV. You can learn things by surfing the web. Reading is not the only way to learn things or entertain yourself.
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#288531
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A Crime, but Not by the Man Doing It
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288531/action/topic#288531
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Originally posted by: lordjedi
ADM, I'm not even going to respond to your comments.

And yet, you couldn't resist. Here I talk about great conservative topics like supply and demand, great liberal topics like recycling, and you latch on to the censorship comment and make a stink over it AND say you're not going to respond? If you're not gonna respond, then don't respond. But don't say you're not and then do so in the next breath. Jeeze.

Reality check, there are those who equate book burning with censorship. It's why I brought it up. It was indeed a preemptive statement, but in your desire to see everything I say as anti-everything-you-stand-for you just couldn't resist making out what I said to be more than it was.


Actually, it had nothing to do with "anti-everything blah blah blah". I just didn't see the point in even bringing it up.

I've been ignoring 99% of your comments in other threads ever since you sided with ID on the Conservative/Nazi comparison (I think I just Godwined the thread, oh fucking well), so it had nothing to do with "latching" onto this comment. What was meant that aside from pointing out how ridiculous it was to post your comment, that the original article and the discussion that followed had absolutely nothing to do with censorship and everything to do with one man being tired of no one reading anymore.

Get a grip. We're not out to get you. Jeeze exactly.

If you're stupid enough to not follow the link and read the story then you don't belong in the conversation. This is not geared at you ADM (universe doesn't revolve around you). This is geared toward anyone stupid enough to see the link "Book Burning" and automatically assume it has to do with censorship.
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#288517
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A Crime, but Not by the Man Doing It
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288517/action/topic#288517
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Originally posted by: JediSage
Discovery and History, and Military, and all in that class make up a small minority of the available content (and let's be honest, American Chopper???). Think about what you're doing when you're watching tv..you slip into that receptive mode where all you do is soak up what's being sent to you. If you watched nothing but Masterpiece Theater (or something "educational") all day then I would say at least your content was good, but you're still just totally switching off your brain when in front of the tube.


Except that when I turn on Discovery, History, or the Military channel, I don't just turn off my brain. I pay just as much attention to the History channel as I do to an episode of Heroes. Example, History was running a series called "The States". They covered Texas and explained why it's the "Lone Star State". The explanation I'd always heard is that they had something written into the Constitution that would allow them to secede if they wanted to. According to THC, it's because they went from being part of Mexico, to being an independent nation, to becoming a State. Pretty interesting stuff.

Watching educational programs is no worse than sitting and reading a book for an hour. It's not nearly the same as watching a game show or the latest reality TV program. Even Mythbusters is a pretty educational program. How many times have you been having a conversation and someone will make an off the cuff remark about some urban myth and you say "Mythbusters disproved that"? It happens to me all the time.

ADM, I'm not even going to respond to your comments. AFAICT, no one brought that up at all. I don't know if you were interjecting that as a preventative measure or what. I think it was a little uncalled for since I'm pretty sure most people here agree that this about this one guy doing this as a protest, not the government trying to censor books.
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#288497
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Blu-ray (or HD-DVD) questions
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288497/action/topic#288497
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LOL

"No, new codes would (should) leave older BDs playable."

Right, but only if the player is updated (correct?). The media companies are making the assumption that people are going to hook their shiney new BD player into an internet connection. Why would people do this? It's not a computer. Most people don't read the manuals. They hook up the A/V cables, or HDMI cable in this case, and start enjoying their hi-def movies. What possible reason would someone have for hooking up their player to an internet connection? Most people just aren't going to go through the trouble, even if there's some "enhanced" content on the disc.

And here's another way to look at it. Suppose some hacker does compromise the keys of one BD player and those keys get pulled. So that model is no longer able to play future BD titles, correct? Even if it's updated (which we have to pay for), the hacker will still just find a way to compromise those keys. It's a never ending cycle.
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#288485
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Blu-ray (or HD-DVD) questions
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288485/action/topic#288485
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Originally posted by: generalfrevious
Is it possible that letterbox formatting cannot exist on an HD-DVD/Blu-Ray?


Why would the media effect the way it's displayed? I would think that letterboxing, anamorphic widescreen, and full screen/pan and scan would all be available or possible on HD or BD. The question to me is, why would you want to do anything other than Anamorphic or at least HD full screen? Use Anamorphic for movies and use HD full screen for everything not shot in widescreen.
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#288457
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Blu-ray (or HD-DVD) questions
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288457/action/topic#288457
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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Well, then let me clarify the copy protection scheme, because I think I gave you the wrong idea.

If a BD player is deemed "compromised", then future BDs will have codes that are unplayable on that particular model. All the BDs you have at that point will still play, but newer ones will not. The playable isn't completely disabled, it just won't play future releases until you plug into the internet and download new keys (which you will have to pay for.)


I understood perfectly well actually. That's exactly what I was referring to (well, maybe a little opposite). Essentially, without knowing it, people would buy new discs, not be able to play them on their players, and get really pissed off. What are they going to do next? They're not going to plug it into a network connection. They're going to take it back to the store and exchange it thinking it's defective. Next one doesn't play, more pissed off. Now they'll take it back and get store credit and buy something else. Eventually they might find out that all the newer discs won't play on their old player because a key was compromised. Now what do they do? They say fuck it. First, they disable my player from playing new discs, then they want me to pay to update the player they broke? Fuck that shit.

I get irritated enough when I read this news. Joe Consumer is going to get downright pissed off and start calling his elected officials wondering why the device he paid for is being limited by some giant media conglomerate.

People might first blame the hackers, but I doubt that. It's not the hacker that broke their player (the inability to play new discs may as well be considered broken), it's the media companies.

In summary, I know they've said this is part of the copy protection scheme, I just don't believe they'll ever enforce it. The more players that get sold, the less they'll be able to enforce it because they'll essentially kill compatibility between old players and new discs. A BD player bought today should be able to play a BD movie bought 5 years from now, whether someone compromises a key or not. If that doesn't happen, the format will die (or people will just figure out a way around it).
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#288435
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Blu-ray (or HD-DVD) questions
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288435/action/topic#288435
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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
Incorrect. The root kit automatically installed itself onto any computer the CD was played on, whether or not someone was trying to make a copy. Not only were many computer OSes damaged, but when Sony sent a "fix" designed to remove the rootkit, it only made things worse. There was a lawsuit for folks whose computers were disabled, but it only came out to about $70 a person.


Actually, I was referring to the "protections" they've tried to put in place on some DVDs. Underworld: Evolution is one I know of off the top of my head. That movie played fine in my Cyberhome player all the way until they kill the main bad guy. Right at that point, it freezes up. It does it everytime. We ended up having to watch the remainder of the movie on my computer. This was all in an effort to prevent people from copying it (this one among others). They inserted some weird blank cells that apparently make the player jump all over the disc and are suppose to fool the copying programs. Of course, the copying programs were just updated to ignore all that and worked just fine afterwards.

That's why the system fails. That's why it'll always fail. That's why the studios need to just knock it off, let people make copies of their discs if they want, and go after the large scale pirates (and the inside leaks). People like my parents, my siblings, and my extended family will always have someone like me that when they mention a "problem" with a disc, will know exactly what's wrong and how to fix it. They (the studios) just keep playing these futile games that only piss off their customers.
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#288434
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A Crime, but Not by the Man Doing It
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288434/action/topic#288434
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Originally posted by: JediSage
Yes, it could be a stunt. However, It's still a bad reflection on the way this country is. How many hours of tv do we watch in a day? I'm trying desperately to curtail my viewing time, and to increase my reading time.


I disagree. I don't think this says anything about the state of the country. To answer your question, I'm probably down to an hour a day, since all the seasons just ended Next Fall it'll be back up to about 2 hours a day, though it's usually spread out over a few days. I have a DVR, so I don't necessarily sit down everynight and get glued to the set. I usually reserve most of my tv viewing for the weekend.

I think it depends more on what people watch. I don't watch reality tv unless it has some kind of educational content (Mythbusters!). Yeah, most people watch crap (American Idol, Survivor, Big Brother, etc, etc), but there is some fairly good programming on TV, like Discovery Channel and History Channel.

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#288420
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Celebration IV
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288420/action/topic#288420
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No one stopped her from going. So she didn't get an invite, big deal. The entire Star Wars world knew when CIV was. She could have easily come by unannounced. Hell, if she wanted some extra security, she could've called someone at LFL. I'm sure the troopers in the 501st would've been more than willing to escort her backstage.

She was invited to the previous three Celebrations and didn't want to go, now she's "upset" that she wasn't invited to this one. Whatever.
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#288417
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Blu-ray (or HD-DVD) questions
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288417/action/topic#288417
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Originally posted by: MeBeJedi
If the studios find out a player is compromised, and they tell Sony to pull the plug on that model, Sony has to comply. (I know Sony is one of the "Studios", but they aren't the only one.) Future player updates will be mandatory for new keys, and it is the consumer that will have to pay for them. There are echoes of DIVX here.


Which is what would kill it completely. Both formats are really struggling to take off right now (despite sales figures, I'm sure they're nowhere near what's needed for critical mass). If they kill a player, that'll be the end of it. No one in their right mind is going to replace their player everytime one gets compromised. The more time goes by before one gets compromised, the greater the chance of the studios having no choice but to leave the players alone or risk millions of people with useless machines.

Of course, the advantage to that happening would be that it would put DRM front and center to Joe Public. Right now, most people don't "get it". Disable their hi-def player and force them to buy a new one and they'll get it real quick. In fact, I'd venture to guess that if that did happen, the US government would introduce new laws to keep it from happening again so fast that Hollywood's head would spin.

So far, Sony has tried to introduce new copy protection mechanisms that have only really affected people that want to make copies of their movies. They have yet to seriously cripple any hardware. The moment they, or anyone else, do, it's over.

Divx failed before, it will fail again if they try to do something similar.

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#288385
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Tales of the New Republic - fan film
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288385/action/topic#288385
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Originally posted by: Dantha Fodder
Originally posted by: bomma
hate to say it but I would be more excited about this then the official Clone Wars series.


Why though? Because its not a Lucasfilm product? Frankly neither animation style has done anything to impress me and I hate to say it, fan films always seem to have that "cheese" factor about them that can't compare to material written and produced by professionals.


No, because aside from the new Clone Wars series that's coming, it seems to be the best thing coming out.

Do all fan films have a "cheese" factor in your eyes? Or just 90% of them? I know most are utter crap, but once in a while some real gems come along. Troops, Pink 5 (the whole series), Revelations (acting wasn't great, but it was pretty good nonetheless) to name a few of the more well known ones.

We've seen what comes from "professionals". It's not that great in itself. In fact, I'd say we've seen better projects come out of the fan community than we've seen come from all the professionals in the last few years. Aside from the level of FX, the professionals don't seem to be doing to well recently.
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#288315
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Legend - Lost 125 min Director's cut (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/288315/action/topic#288315
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Originally posted by: Cassius76
Bad news after a lot of tinkering with settings and stuff work, I have it confirmed that Port Forwarding in my router is a waste of time. The Linksys BEFSR41 will work with forwarding for about 24 hrs then fail, disconnecting at 2 min intervals. This is a problem that has never been resolved by linksys and I have wasted £40. I'll have to get a new router soon. Basically, No torrenting for me until I get a new one. Sorry people


You might just need to reduce your upload (and maybe download) speed and max number of connections. It sounds like the router is getting overloaded (typical Linksys behaviour). I've heard that reducing up/down speed and number of connections can make the problem all but disappear.