On Aug 1, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 07:31 PM Saturday 8/1/2009, David Brin wrote:
Today's DVD's
1- are not universal if you record on "minus" or "plus" mode and
many units throw fits, even then
Another problem, at least with the unit I have, is that if I want to
re
At 12:19 PM Sunday 8/2/2009, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
On Aug 1, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 07:31 PM Saturday 8/1/2009, David Brin wrote:
Today's DVD's
1- are not universal if you record on "minus" or "plus" mode and
many units throw fits, even then
Another problem, at lea
On 1 Aug 2009, at 22:14, David Hobby wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
...
DVD region codes. NTSC or PAL? Stereo or 5.1? Dolby or DTS?
Component or HDMI? Upscale to 720P or 1080i?
William-- I agree with you on some, and want to add an
item.
DVD region codes: Not in the consumer's interest
Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 8/2/2009 8:17 PM:
> And the mandated DTV changeover was just another excuse to get money out
> of people who were satisfied with things the way they were, even those
> who have little or naught to spare.
Never mind the need for that freed up airspace for ot
Inevitable . . .
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/07/highlights-from-the-1984-lawsuit-against-amazon.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/nlthah
. . . ronn! :)
___
http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
On Aug 2, 2009, at 7:17 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
And the mandated DTV changeover was just another excuse to get money
out of people who were satisfied with things the way they were, even
those who have little or naught to spare.
. . . ronn! :)
On that, I'll agree with you. Did we r
Ronn! wrote:
Inevitable . . .
>
>
> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/07/highlights-from-the-1984-lawsuit-against-amazon.html
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/nlthah
More on this including an apology from Amazon's CEO:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Bezos-says-Kindle-1984-deletion
William T Goodall wrote:
On 1 Aug 2009, at 22:14, David Hobby wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
...
NTSC vs. PAL: Not a fair criticism. That mess was created a LONG
time ago, and was also a problem with VHS tapes. (A bigger problem,
since the players were analog.)
Even with HD the frame r
