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Motorola wins Xbox and Windows 7 ban in Germany -- (link) - Danedukenuuk May 2, 06:04
Going to order some HDMI cables - are these a good deal? - monoprice.com Link - Beaker May 2, 05:17 5
- Yes, I definitely recommend buying there. But, curious why "blu ray to cable box"? -- nm - Don Homer May 2, 05:19 4
  - I don't knwo :) I'm used to wiring stuff through a VCR and assumed it was the same way... - Beaker May 2, 05:23 3
    - Ideally, you'd have a receiver (with everything going into that and from there to the tv) with speakers. -- nm - Don Homer May 2, 05:42 2
      - There's really two ways. 1) Run everything to receiver and receiver to TV. 2) If you lack a receiver, run everything to the TV and you change inputs - oblique May 2, 05:50 1
        
        I tried #1 when I got my new receiver a few months ago. I found that the video switching delays were super annoying. - Subversive May 2, 06:09
Yikes! "Another agent on the detail is so out of shape that she cannot open the heavy doors to exit the president�s limousine..." -- (link) - Don Homer May 2, 05:05 6
- is it smart of the Post to report that the SS skips screening people at 1 in 5 events? -- nm - loosi May 2, 05:48 4
  - I would think the types of events they skip screening at would be the ones hardest for someone get into, most guests already known, What a Movie! - zeitgeist May 2, 12:11
  - If bad sh*t needs to be called out and publicized than it should be. -- nm - Don Homer May 2, 05:58 2
    - right -- nm - prayformojo May 2, 06:00
    - true, but I'm not sure we should trust this guy. the article looks very self-promoting and full of unsubstantiated claims. -- nm - loosi May 2, 06:00
- "but she is hard to shoot around; like putting a sumo wrestler in a hockey net" -- nm - Beaker May 2, 05:47
Floyd Mayweather Jr: "Pacquiao has used performance-enhancing drugs and getting in the ring with him would be a risk to his future health" -- (link) - Beaker May 2, 04:26
May 2, 2011 � Osama bin Laden was shot and killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. -- nm - Beaker May 2, 03:36 1
- MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! -- nm - Strongbad May 2, 05:20
Gold Box Deal of the Day: Refurbished Kindle Fire for $139 -- (link) - CovingtonCat May 2, 02:59 1
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Crank to ika.org...hell everybody to ika.org...the mongol hordes have invaded the hub, chewing up the crystal isle and now landed on the wine isle -- nm - zeitgeist May 2, 01:03 1
- Interesting choices, I would have taken our smaller islands first.....plus they are the sulphur islands. -- nm - CrankYanker May 2, 04:38
Lewis Black chewed it up tonight getting indignant at the use of 'artisanal' chips, bagels and pizza from industrial spigots...funny... - zeitgeist May 1, 23:21
The earring gag on New Girl went from lame to nuclear in a heartbeat. -- nm - Mop May 1, 22:13
In hindsight, the better "fake name" joke would have been my own. -- nm - Reagen May 1, 21:46
I'm rather upset that you didn't give my PotC3 quote some love, David. - Qale May 1, 21:44 12
- Spawn's Stupid is drowning out the rest. -- nm - David May 1, 21:50 9
  - Hey, don't be upset. It just means more cloud space for you! -- nm - Iron Spawn May 1, 21:53 8
    - People like you are the reason there are still things on VHS! -- nm - Reagen May 1, 21:54 7
      - ::looks over at his VCR:: -- nm - Iron Spawn May 1, 21:57 2
        
        *looks over at his 3 VCRs* -- nm - Beaker May 2, 04:58
        
        *continues to flash 12:00* -- nm - Spawn's VCR May 1, 22:31
      - Or in Spawn's case, Betamax. -- nm - David May 1, 21:56 3
        
        Hey Reagen, Abundatrade deals with Canada now. - David May 1, 22:06 2
        
        and free shipping. Well, well. - Reagen May 1, 22:09 1
        
        *bows* - David May 1, 22:11
- If only you had some sort of reward and punishment system to express yourself with! -- nm - Reagen May 1, 21:46 1
  - I know. Damn Roger More ruins everything! -- nm - Qale May 1, 21:50
Time for some Halo -- nm - oblique May 1, 21:26
ST,,,, a little linquistic help here please .... when a store, theater, etc. has a sign out front, it's called a "mar-kee" ..but how do you spell it ? -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! May 1, 21:23 3
- marque or marquee, I think -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 21:23
- marquee. -- nm - Reagen May 1, 21:23 1
  - danke ... i started to spell it as "marquis" .... but there's no french nobility involved here -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! May 1, 21:26
What can be frustrating about a Cloud purchase is when things like Direct 2 Drive gets bought out by GameFly. - Qale May 1, 21:22 1
- Yes, and in theory that is what UV addresses by supporting multiple service providers but you are still tied to UV -- nm - oblique May 1, 21:25
For most of these digital locker/cloud discussions, as a Canadian, I feel like a kid looking sadly through a window at a candy store. -- nm - Reagen May 1, 21:17 12
- but, we have netflix canada streaming! and cbcmusic.ca! -- (link) - Beryllium May 1, 21:21
- No Vudu there? - David May 1, 21:18 10
  - Ha. Just about any of the four-lettered services aren't here - Reagen May 1, 21:19 9
    - Fucking Hulu won't even let me watch Superbowl ads. nm - ralph wiggum May 1, 21:44
    - Case in point: Roku's big selling points here are Crackle, Netflix, Facebook and Angry Birds - Reagen May 1, 21:23 7
      - That's pretty much all Roku is here, except add Amazon videos. -- nm - JaxSean May 1, 23:01
      - Ye gods. That is the programming Spawn deserves. -- nm - David May 1, 21:29 5
        
        The rest of their page can be summed up as "Cool stuff coming soon! We swear!" -- nm - Reagen May 1, 21:31
        
        Be nice now - oblique May 1, 21:29 3
        
        Plus, it makes no sense since I stated that old has little value to me. Seems like Mr Hitchcock Two Clicks might value Crackle. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 1, 21:37 2
        
        Crackle's lineup is like a slightly better-than-average airplane VOD system. -- nm - Reagen May 1, 21:42 1
        
        Ouch. Okay, I take back what I said. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 1, 21:48
This photo organization project of mine is starting to get out of hand... - Stephen May 1, 21:08 11
- I have to organize two crates of physical photos and scan them........ at some point in the future. -- nm - CrankYanker May 1, 21:21 2
  - This is organization is being done so that I can eventually tackle the scanning of all the family's physical photographs... - Stephen May 1, 21:37 1
    - Just start scanning them. Put them in folders based on when you scanned them....then tag the pictures with whatever filing you style you have - Will Hunting May 2, 06:04
- oh, 200 folders ... heh. I just finished uploading about 100 gigabytes of photos to the cloud ... -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 21:14 4
  - I went the other direction. Dropped all mine on a qnap so I can access from anywhere but not using a photo service online anymore - oblique May 1, 21:16 3
    - I am still working through a local hard drive failure, so I wanted to offload some responsibility. Raw sync to Amazon S3. :) -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 21:17 2
      - Qnap is mirrored plush local backup the mirror to another drive with crashplan plus backup to a friend who I gave another drive to - oblique May 1, 21:19 1
        
        I'm not quite sure where it was that the words started flying over my head.... - Stephen May 1, 21:35
- Physically organize into folders by date taken. Fire up windows live photo gallery and tag - oblique May 1, 21:13 1
  - Yep -- nm - Will Hunting May 2, 03:54
- I would offer an opinion but I clearly do not understand digital media. - Iron Spawn May 1, 21:11
Grandfather arrested for towing 7 year old granddaughter in her toy car behind his SUV using dog leashes. -- (link) - CrankYanker May 1, 21:00 3
- So? -- nm - Mitt Romney May 1, 21:01 2
  - Funny because I can totally see him doing this on a ranch....with George W. riding shotgun. -- nm - CrankYanker May 1, 21:07 1
    - when there is snow, that's a redneck ski lift -- nm - zeitgeist May 1, 21:09
Dogs in the City? How little respect does network television have for viewers? -- nm - David May 1, 20:55 2
- i think the difinitive depth of their disrespect, no, distain, was when they spun off the Ropers from Three's Company -- nm - zeitgeist May 1, 21:56
- Do you really want us to answer that? -- nm - Teen Mom Fear Factor Crossover May 1, 20:58
lyc - MrsCY missed her train because of the May Day marches downtown and I was delayed at LAX due to a march from Bradley terminal to Century Blvd. -- nm - CrankYanker May 1, 20:43 3
- But on the bright side. Now the Country is fixed, unemployment at 0%, Social Security is Solvent, and Everyone has healthcare!! - Bacon, via Droid May 1, 21:04 1
  - this -- nm - CrankYanker May 1, 21:06
- inconveniences are inconvenient -- nm - pixitude May 1, 20:48
Ender, do you have a used media store nearby? - David May 1, 20:41 1
- Probably, though i'm not sure i'm ready to go totally digital. Maybe some of them though... -- nm - Ender May 1, 21:00
lir, the Kodak Theater was specifically built to avoid having to bounce the Oscars back and forth between the Dorothy Chandler and the Shrine. - CrankYanker May 1, 20:35 3
- and Dolby is a lot better than many of the other corporate names it could have been to replace Kodak -- nm - peglegpete May 1, 20:39 2
  - sounds good to me -- nm - zeitgeist May 1, 20:43
  - yes, Dolby has represented excellence in sound for many, many years....it's a great choice. -- nm - CrankYanker May 1, 20:40
Yenta, 1 heart attack, not diabetes -- nm - peglegpete May 1, 20:15 3
- still smoking? -- nm - loosi May 1, 20:19 2
  - I plead the 5'th -- nm - peglegpete May 1, 20:22 1
    - you're not short and fat either, but don't worry darlink, we'll fix you up with someone nice -- nm - yenta May 1, 20:32
loosi: I would agree on one level but as one example Joan Jett chose to start her own label when blocked by the man. However if your point... - JD May 1, 20:13 6
- my point is on many levels. -- nm - loosi May 1, 20:17
- Isn't that an example of how sexist the rock world is? (also, neither Joan Jett or Pat Benatar made the list) -- nm - Roger More May 1, 20:16 4
  - jett was prime punk -- nm - zeitgeist May 1, 20:22 3
    - and she had no problem hiring pure cheese to front the Runaways. -- nm - loosi May 1, 20:26
    - She loved rock and roll. Put another dime in the jukebox, baby. -- nm - Roger More May 1, 20:23 1
      - dammit, i was thinkiing/confusing patty smith -- nm - zeitgeist May 1, 20:34
spamlet, 15 of the 18 movies I registered at Walmart with Vudu are available to stream or download in Flixster on my iPad and Kindle Fire -- nm - oblique May 1, 20:10 48
- Awesome thanks. This is my weekend project. -- nm - spamlet (iPhone) May 2, 04:52
- Is there a summary of all this stuff you guys are talking about with this Vudu / Walmart / Flixter / Ultraviolet / Bluray / Tradein thing? - JaxSean May 1, 20:14 46
  - Basically, Walmart lets you buy digital versions of DVDs or blurays your have. Since Vudu is UV compliant, - oblique May 1, 20:20 45
    - So...you're paying to get your movies you own in digital form? -- nm - JaxSean May 1, 20:29 44
      - Yes but if you don't do it this way, you will have to buy them for full price someday soon. -- nm - David May 1, 20:31 41
        
        No doubt it's convenient, but you could ask just rip them all and get 100% lossless and universal playback. -- nm - Mop May 1, 22:28
        
        Wait...wha? - JaxSean May 1, 20:33 39
        
        As in if the next wave is cloud/streaming, just like people rebought bluray, the same goes for streaming. - oblique May 1, 20:37 6
        
        By the time we got HD TVs, we stopped buying movies. I don't know that I'll even buy a Bluray ever. - JaxSean May 1, 20:40 5
        
        I am strongly considering buying TNG:Season 1 on bluray - Beryllium May 1, 20:59
        
        You would be programming the JaxSean Channel. It is different. -- nm - David May 1, 20:45
        
        So for the cost of the rental, you can have your existing collection streaming also -- nm - oblique May 1, 20:41 2
        
        Yeah, I do get it. Thanks for the recap/clarification. - JaxSean May 1, 20:45 1
        
        Lastly, I got 4 free movies as part of the Flixster registration/Facebook integration (not great but still free) - oblique May 1, 20:49
        
        It's just like mp3s. They will always work but there are more convenient solutions available cheap right now. - David May 1, 20:36 28
        
        But it really isn't. Adding slightly more portability to music makes sense as music on the go has always been a plus. But movies are not like that. - Iron Spawn May 1, 20:41 26
        
        It's the lack of physical media. - David May 1, 20:44 15
        
        Well, I guess as someone that has less than thirty DVDs, I guess we see it differently. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 1, 20:46 2
        
        Ironically, three fourths of those are David's Backyard Adventure DVDs -- nm - Qale May 1, 20:47 1
        
        Those were digital years before anyone knew how to play them. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 1, 20:49
        
        My issue is that I've never been much of a media owner. I never even bought that many DVDs. -- nm - Dano May 1, 20:46 11
        
        I also don't think I own any way to watch a digital version other than my laptop and I won't watch movies on my laptop. -- nm - Dano May 1, 20:52 10
        
        We should form a club. - Iron Spawn May 1, 20:53 9
        
        STONECUTTERS. -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 20:58 8
        
        heh. David, the last point I will make is this. When I watch a movie, I *watch* the movie. - Iron Spawn May 1, 21:02 7
        
        The out-and-about part is probably the least important part of it. - Ender May 1, 21:08 1
        
        Hmm. Irrelevant, true, irrelevant. But I can see where some people might like those. Thanks. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 1, 21:15
        
        I am not joking when I say that you clearly have a minimal understanding of this. -- nm - David May 1, 21:05 4
        
        Then what am I missing? - Iron Spawn May 1, 21:10 3
        
        Ender's post is a good start. - David May 1, 21:14 2
        
        And that is the difference. What I have already seen has little value to me. What I have yet to see is much more important. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 1, 21:17 1
        
        Didn't you just watch Cars 2? - David May 1, 21:19
        
        My kids would argue with you on that. -- nm - oblique May 1, 20:42 9
        
        But here is the deal, something most seem to have forgotten. - Iron Spawn May 1, 20:45 8
        
        Keep carving those walls, Caveman. -- nm - David May 1, 20:46 7
        
        If that means I want Logan to enjoy being out of the house, I will gladly take it.. - Iron Spawn May 1, 20:48 6
        
        The cloud exists outside your house, befuddled Caveman. - David May 1, 20:49 5
        
        That is my point, as in videos are to be viewed indoors. - Iron Spawn May 1, 20:51 4
        
        You lack vision. - David May 1, 20:54 3
        
        No, I see what you are taking about. I simply disagree, and reject it. Like Dano said, I can already watch anything on my computer, but I do not. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 1, 20:57 2
        
        THIS -- nm - Beaker May 2, 05:03
        
        This post is your Hunger Games. -- nm - David May 1, 21:03
        
        Because I can watch it on DVD for free? (If I ever choose to watch it at all...) -- nm - JaxSean May 1, 20:38
        
        As in David is obsessed with digital media. -- nm - Iron Spawn May 1, 20:36 2
        
        Ie the sound of inevitability -- nm - David May 1, 20:36 1
        
        "The immaterial has become... immaterial." -- nm - Qale May 1, 20:39
      - sounds like you can opt to get them in higher quality, and you don't have to spend hours or days transcoding them to work on your devices -- nm - Beryllium May 1, 20:30 1
        
        this -- nm - oblique May 1, 20:35
freebird! -- nm - pixitude May 1, 20:09

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