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06-27-2007, 01:00 PM
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Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX
*sigh, daemon, its all about convenience! people want to do all that stuff on one tiny, expensive gadget that others will lust after! i dont do much travel, but cant a laptop do the whole dvd/cd/playlist/internet/phone thing? i'd truthfully rather have one really super laptop than the iphone.
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precisely the reason why I never liked combo devices...if one thing goes wrong u have to send the whole thing in!!
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06-27-2007, 01:03 PM
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yeah, that is true. inconvenience of repair will greatly outweigh the inconvenience of having to ship it to god knows where and being without a phone for 4 weeks!
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06-27-2007, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX
yeah, that is true. inconvenience of repair will greatly outweigh the inconvenience of having to ship it to god knows where and being without a phone for 4 weeks!
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kinda like those tv dvd/vcr combos....lol
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06-27-2007, 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
a blu ray player (which is also overpriced)
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What's the deal with those? All of a sudden, anytime a new movie comes out on "video", they just started advertising "Avalible in DVD or Blu Ray"....
Are DVDs ALREADY on their way out? It seems like they JUST came in, and it's just recently they stopped releasing every movie that came out in both DVD and VCR form.
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I thought I was the only one. When I work out and have my Walkman, I feel like I am in the gym with a record player or an 8 track machine.
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No Ipod here. I do have a CD walkman though.
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06-27-2007, 01:26 PM
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Between a trip to Canada and an iPhone, i'll emphatically take the latter.
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06-27-2007, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Between a trip to Canada and an iPhone, i'll emphatically take the latter.
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well I actually had more fun in canada.....LOL
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06-27-2007, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Between a trip to Canada and an iPhone, i'll emphatically take the latter.
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Having stayed in the Fairmont Banff Springs in Alberta and gone skiing a couple of times at Whistler ( Whistler Blackcomb and the Fairmont Chateau)..........I must say.......you are out of your mind.
Last edited by macallan25; 06-27-2007 at 02:36 PM.
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06-27-2007, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by macallan25
Having stayed in the Fairmont Banff Springs in Alberta and gone skiing a couple of times at Whistler ( Whistler Blackcomb and the Fairmont Chateau)..........I must say.......you are out of your mind.
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amen to that....I wanna see someone turn down a trip for an iphone
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06-28-2007, 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by macallan25
Having stayed in the Fairmont Banff Springs in Alberta and gone skiing a couple of times at Whistler ( Whistler Blackcomb and the Fairmont Chateau)..........I must say.......you are out of your mind.
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Hellz yeah, baby!!!
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06-27-2007, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
What's the deal with those? All of a sudden, anytime a new movie comes out on "video", they just started advertising "Avalible in DVD or Blu Ray"....
Are DVDs ALREADY on their way out? It seems like they JUST came in, and it's just recently they stopped releasing every movie that came out in both DVD and VCR form.
No Ipod here. I do have a CD walkman though.
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DVD has barely been around 10 years and they are trying to kill the format...Blu Ray and HD DVD are supposed to give you better quality movies because of less compression.....
It gets technical beyond this but let me explain....
in order to get a theatrical movie on a regular sized DVD, it has to be compressed or 'squeezed' onto a DVD disk meaning you may experience a loss of quality picture and sound hence why some dvds have 4 and 5 disks
(like the lord of the rings extended edition where the main movie covers 2 disks alone)
Now putting a movie on Blu Ray or High Density DVD (HD DVD) means you can get everything that takes 4 or 5 disks to store all onto one or 2 disks and with little loss of quality.
here is the problem tho...Blu ray and HD DVD are duking it out betamax vs vhs stlye to see which will become the dominant form of next gen DVD watching...so dont rush out to get a player yet...not at least for another 3 years
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06-27-2007, 01:34 PM
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the average person would stay broke trying to keep up with technology in their home...and now they are putting half that mess (ipods, navigation) into the cars too!!
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06-27-2007, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by OneTimeSBX
the average person would stay broke trying to keep up with technology in their home...and now they are putting half that mess (ipods, navigation) into the cars too!!
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it's practically being forced upon us...take HDTV now.....the FCC keeps trying to tell us that you 'need' to have one in your homes by 2000 whenever or else you wont be able to watch TV in analog anymore....I mean yeah...I have one (techno geek) and I have HD service but come on...gimmie some more HD channels please??
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06-28-2007, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
DVD has barely been around 10 years and they are trying to kill the format...Blu Ray and HD DVD are supposed to give you better quality movies because of less compression.....
It gets technical beyond this but let me explain....
in order to get a theatrical movie on a regular sized DVD, it has to be compressed or 'squeezed' onto a DVD disk meaning you may experience a loss of quality picture and sound hence why some dvds have 4 and 5 disks
(like the lord of the rings extended edition where the main movie covers 2 disks alone)
Now putting a movie on Blu Ray or High Density DVD (HD DVD) means you can get everything that takes 4 or 5 disks to store all onto one or 2 disks and with little loss of quality.
here is the problem tho...Blu ray and HD DVD are duking it out betamax vs vhs stlye to see which will become the dominant form of next gen DVD watching...so dont rush out to get a player yet...not at least for another 3 years
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Thank you for this explanation because I never knew what blu ray disk was. My daughter asked me and I couldn't tell her.
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06-27-2007, 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
No Ipod here. I do have a CD walkman though.
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Uuuuhhh I hope no one thought I still have my tape player walkman that I got for Christmas in 1988.    Mine plays CDs only, lol.
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06-27-2007, 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4
Uuuuhhh I hope no one thought I still have my tape player walkman that I got for Christmas in 1988. Mine plays CDs only, lol. |
aahhhhh....but just think how cool we thought CDs were in the day...no more popped or chewed up cassettes...no more flipping the sides...no more lengthy rewinds just to get to the end of the song...........
and then iPods came along and simplified it even more.....no more dragging a book filled with scratched and beatup disks.
Now all we gotta worry about is copyright protection.
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