Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-16 Thread Dave Ricketzz
: Friday, February 15, 2008 1:45:41 PM Subject: Re: Petition to save HDDVD -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No thanx. I want a single format to win. I'm old enough to remember | Betamax/VHS war. BlueRay has won. | We all lost since neither side could co-operate. In the mean time

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-16 Thread Hartmut Noack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gustin Johnson schrieb: Larry Lines wrote: | Cory K. schrieb: | Christopher Stamper wrote: | Who cares? I'm not using either. Ever. | | That's fine stick with your crappy, downloaded, lossy MP3s. ;) | | -Cory | | Vinyl is still the best - I

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-16 Thread hollunder
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:41:22 +0100 Hartmut Noack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gustin Johnson schrieb: Larry Lines wrote: | Cory K. schrieb: | Christopher Stamper wrote: | Who cares? I'm not using either. Ever. | | That's fine stick with

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-16 Thread Dave Ricketzz
A 45 RPM 12 single is hard to beat. - Original Message From: Gustin Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ubuntu Studio Users Help and Discussion ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 1:29:04 PM Subject: Re: Petition to save HDDVD - I have grown up

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-15 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
HDDV? BlueRay? CD? DVD? Vinyl? Tape? BitTorrent! :P Luis de Bethencourt On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Larry Lines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cory K. schrieb: Christopher Stamper wrote: Who cares? I'm not using either. Ever. That's fine stick with your crappy, downloaded, lossy

RE: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-15 Thread Larry Lines
Cory K. schrieb: Christopher Stamper wrote: Who cares? I'm not using either. Ever. That's fine stick with your crappy, downloaded, lossy MP3s. ;) -Cory Vinyl is still the best - I used to listen to MPĀ§ for the last 2 or so years, ripped each CD I bought to OGG before I played it from HD

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-15 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
I have grown up with both vinyl and CD (I am in my 30s). The crackles and the constant noise irritate me, especially since I do not have that nostalgic emotional connection that _can_ cloud ones subjective judgement. [...] Having said that, I know a lot of people who experience vinyl

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-15 Thread Timothy Crabtree
? I'm selfish. Therefore, I don't much care about formats that I can't use. Petitions won't save HD-DVD. Toshiba is just about to give up. It's over. -Tim On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Icy EyeG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. There's a petition to save HDDVD at http://www.youchoose.net

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-15 Thread D. Michael McIntyre
On Friday 15 February 2008, Timothy Crabtree wrote: Petitions won't save HD-DVD. Toshiba is just about to give up. It's over. It's not over until the last Betamax and CED machines stop working. Until then, I'm going to kick back and listen to my 8-tracks of Elvis. -- D. Michael McIntyre

Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Icy EyeG
Hi all. There's a petition to save HDDVD at http://www.youchoose.net/campaign/save_hd_dvd_format I sending this here, because I honestly believe that the competition between 2 formats can help HD implementation on Linux. -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Sean Edwards
Two words: DivX -=cybersean3000=- - Original Message From: Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ubuntu Studio Users Help and Discussion ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:35:24 AM Subject: Re: Petition to save HDDVD Icy EyeG wrote: Hi all

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Sean Edwards
Two Words: 8 Track -=cybersean3000=- - Original Message From: Cory K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ubuntu Studio Users Help and Discussion ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:35:24 AM Subject: Re: Petition to save HDDVD Icy EyeG wrote: Hi all

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:35:24 AM Subject: Re: Petition to save HDDVD Icy EyeG wrote: Hi all. There's a petition to save HDDVD at http://www.youchoose.net/campaign/save_hd_dvd_format I sending this here, because I honestly believe that the competition between 2

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Dave Rickmers
Icy EyeG wrote: Hi all. There's a petition to save HDDVD at http://www.youchoose.net/campaign/save_hd_dvd_format I sending this here, because I honestly believe that the competition between 2 formats can help HD implementation on Linux. I have an HDDVD player (that they basically used

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
a petition to save HDDVD at http://www.youchoose.net/campaign/save_hd_dvd_format I sending this here, because I honestly believe that the competition between 2 formats can help HD implementation on Linux. I have an HDDVD player (that they basically used to sweeten the deal on a 50 inch DLP

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Larry Lines
EyeG wrote: Hi all. There's a petition to save HDDVD at http://www.youchoose.net/campaign/save_hd_dvd_format I sending this here, because I honestly believe that the competition between 2 formats can help HD implementation on Linux. I have an HDDVD player

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Cory K.
Larry Lines wrote: They will become cheap enough as soon as everyone replaces ALL of their DVD's with Blu Ray or HDDVD. Well they are coming down so I'll get a PS3 this summer and use that for movies. And we're all suckers so we will end up replacing our whole libraries with the new

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Haig Dedeyan
Cory K. wrote: We're only suckers if we let ourselves. CDs aren't going anywhere soon. No matter how grim the industry likes to portray itself. CDs IMHO are perfect. They can try to come out with supposed better formats but it will only be in a effort to further copy-protection. -Cory

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Christopher Stamper
Who cares? I'm not using either. Ever. Maybe they will both die. :-) Better yet, maybe M$ will buy HD-DVD and both die! We can always hope :-) On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Haig Dedeyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cory K. wrote: We're only suckers if we let ourselves. CDs aren't

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Cory K.
Christopher Stamper wrote: :-0 Talking about blueray and hd-dvd. Not audio cd, or did I fail to read the whole thread again??? :-) Actually, I don't download music. I rip CD's, in 44.1 wav. Yup. :-) And I don't watch video, so. Yeah, I took it as a CD comment because you quoted my

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Christopher Stamper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: duh. wow. Maybe everyone should use gmail Well, if you had as many emails every day as I do, you probably wouldn't read them too well either. /excuse Test us. How many emails do you recieve per day? Luis de

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Christopher Stamper
No, 'cause im sure u get more. :-) But I have to do other things, like school.. So its a lot 4 me On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Luis de Bethencourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Christopher Stamper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: duh. wow. Maybe everyone

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
Why has nobody replied to my flash memory revelation? Luis On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Christopher Stamper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, 'cause im sure u get more. :-) But I have to do other things, like school.. So its a lot 4 me On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Luis de

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Gustin Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Because within a couple of years, everyone who matters to the industry will be using iTunes to buy music/movies/tv Buying something physical, that is old school :) Luis de Bethencourt wrote: | Why has nobody replied to my flash memory revelation?

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Christopher Stamper
Unless you like obscure, un-popular music that can only be obtained via cd.. :-) On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Gustin Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Because within a couple of years, everyone who matters to the industry will be using

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Luis de Bethencourt
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Gustin Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Because within a couple of years, everyone who matters to the industry will be using iTunes to buy music/movies/tv Buying something physical, that is old school :) So

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Dave Rickmers
I-Tunes? Aren't they just mainstream stuff? -Original Message- From: Luis de Bethencourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Feb 14, 2008 9:51 AM To: Ubuntu Studio Users Help and Discussion ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Petition to save HDDVD On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:48 PM

Re: Petition to save HDDVD

2008-02-14 Thread Luke Yelavich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 01:35:24AM EST, Cory K. wrote: No thanx. I want a single format to win. I'm old enough to remember Betamax/VHS war. BlueRay has won. Maybe I should do http://www.youchoose.net/campaign/kill_hd_dvd_format