Posted on 05/01/2007 8:58:23 PM PDT by HAL9000
That's a definite plus. Having an alternative that is already deployed helps. I'm already leaning toward BluRay because of the larger storage capacity, support for uncompressed audio and the growing list of titles.
I finally purchased a 37" 1080p HDTV a couple months ago. I'm still on the fence for a disk player. In the interim, I'm enjoying 1080i resolution from a DishNet HD receiver. My upconverting DVD player does the same for most DVDs. It's good enough until the format squabble settles and prices come down to a reasonable level for the players. Somewhere under $300 is "reasonable" once a format becomes ubiquitous.
There is a classical “digital speaker” design that consists of sixteen pistons (12 pistons in the economy model) each displacing twice as much air as the next. Each piston is solenoid driven full forward or full backward based on the respective bit of the input word. Is that what you got?
No, just making fun of all the “digital ready” that is often used to market audio stuff.
Where does “intent” figure in? Your bank account number isn’t intellectual property, nor is your credit card number. But if someone released them on the internet for others to use to access “property” you didn’t want available, wouldn’t you feel there was a strong case to be made in keeping that information private?
That's the road to hell paved with good intentions. It leads to the creation of thought crimes.
If Joe says "more than 75% of the players in the NBA are black," he's stating an objective fact. Liberals look to intent. If Joe said the phrase because he doesn't like black people, liberals argue it is a hate crime even though the statement itself is truthful.
Getting back to the Hex code, do you believe there should be presumption of guilt based on an inferred intent? Going to a prior example, it would enable KFC and Coca Cola to go after anyone who uttered the words "chicken" and "sugar" because of an inferred intent to disclose secret recipes.
It would stand to reason the hex code was found because someone intended to use it to decrypt HD-DVDs. It wasn’t some “hey, golly...look at this...a string of numbers. Oh well, let’s move on.” type of discovery. It was meant to be used contrary to the way the owners intended the disc to be used.
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