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| Thread ID: 60511 | 2005-08-04 03:51:00 | Spend up on hardware folks. | Murray P (44) | PC World Chat |
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| 378142 | 2005-08-04 09:34:00 | Actually, on second thoughts Met's, I want HD-DVD now and digital TV too along with a 50MB/s intrawaweb [sic] connection . It's just not bdy good enough :rolleyes: Presscott, heres a link ( . smh . com . au/news/breaking/windows-offers-new-vistas-of-spending/2005/08/03/1122748681367 . html?oneclick=true" target="_blank">www . smh . com . au) On third thought, if all the overseas content, HD-DVD and possibly Blue Ray are going that way, what the heck sort of choice are we going to have? Can you bet that the content providers will be lapping the technology up? Should I find that other thread? I reckon we are safe, The big companies try and force new and better technology on consumers on a constant basis but I think a new format only gets adopted every 8 years or so . I cant see my local video store switching over to Ble-Ray, its taken them 3 years to get a decent stock of DVD's as it is . . . . Even when its free and better we rarely adopt something new unless it offers significant enhancements, the failure of ogg to make any headway against mp3 is an example, better quality and similar if not smaller file size, no one cares as the difference is to small to make the switch worthwhile . While on the other hand dvix (and its derivatives) quickly replaced everything else in the video world due to file size and quality . Whats the benifit of HD media in our low-res world? |
Metla (12) | ||
| 378143 | 2005-08-04 11:54:00 | Soo the DRM display basically means if you don't pay your DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray subscription, you get a fuzzy picture. Want to play a mate's disc, nope, not allowed, fuzzy picture. | vapo (5203) | ||
| 378144 | 2005-08-05 01:20:00 | First (known) Vista virus written. (computerworld.co.nz). Hopefully they can tighten it up considerably before it goes mainstream, *cough* Vista I mean. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 378145 | 2005-08-05 02:54:00 | First (known) Vista virus written. (computerworld.co.nz). Hopefully they can tighten it up considerably before it goes mainstream, *cough* Vista I mean. So much for the theory of "security by obscurity" |
plod (107) | ||
| 378146 | 2005-08-05 04:39:00 | It's not a matter of wanting it, you will need to have, MS will start phasing out support for XP, I don't how long that will take, but at a guess it will be sooner then the 98-xp transition phase out... Whats MS Support? Never used it - I only just changed to XP at the beginning of this year - due to hardware forcing me to. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 378147 | 2005-08-05 05:50:00 | Whats MS Support? Never used it - I only just changed to XP at the beginning of this year - due to hardware forcing me to. Well i presume it is what you do with updates, I believe MS is no longer updating these for new problems.. Have you never updated your OS through windows update? |
plod (107) | ||
| 378148 | 2005-08-05 20:00:00 | Well i presume it is what you do with updates, I believe MS is no longer updating these for new problems.. Have you never updated your OS through windows update? No. I prefer to rely on 3rd party protection. Not MSs leaky patches. |
pctek (84) | ||
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