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IBFarang
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When I logged on this morning I noticed the iphone thread was not in the last 25 posts. And it has been a while since I posted in this thread and I realized you guys might miss my input.
Browsing the web it is become fairly apparent that Blu-ray is going to win out over HD DVD’s, and I was just wondering if this means that Apple might just decide to offer Blu-ray drives in their computers?
Apple is part of the Board of Directors for Blu-ray are they not?
Or maybe Apple feels that Apple TV will eventually eliminate the need for any form of optical drive?
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 8:40 pm on Feb. 17, 2008
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from IBFarang on 11:55 am on Feb. 18, 2008
While Apple, as usually, was endorsing the format that would eventually win out, they also had no particular in it -- there are no benefits, to Apple, in their Macs holding BluRay drives, or not.
As it stands, it was far better in Apple's best interest to wait:
- for Toshiba to crash and burn
- for HD-DVD to be officially discontinued
- for mechanism prices to drop further
- for media prices to drop further
Apple certainly will be announcing and featuring BluRay drives in their high-end hardware, but there is certainly no rush for any of that. Recorder mechanisms are still at $400, and media still hovers around $15-$25 - they may be introduced as BTO options soon (i.e. this year), but I honestly don't see any advantage to it to anyone for the near future.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:59 am on Feb. 18, 2008
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Abrak
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I did read somewhere that 1 in 3 American homes had high definition. That surprised me. It is almost unheard of here.
I have never even seen a high definition movie.
I thought all this stuff was years away.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 2:20 am on Feb. 18, 2008
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Mr Alan
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Quote: from Abrak on 4:35 am on Feb. 18, 2008
I did read somewhere that 1 in 3 American homes had high definition. That surprised me. It is almost unheard of here.
On February 17, 2009, US federal law requires that all full-power television broadcast stations stop broadcasting in analog format and broadcast only in digital format. While digital is not necessarily the same as HD, most TV stations (including cable stations) are already broadcasting in HD digital for at least part of their programming. This is especially true for sports programming. That has driven large scale sales of HD capable flat panel TV sets in the US within the last year.
HD movies are a slightly different story. While some movies are now being offered in HD-DVD or BlueRay (the two competing HD formats on DVD), they are not compatible with existing DVD players. It appears that BlueRay has won the format war (Toshiba is expected to announce their dropping of the HD-DVD this week), and this may speed up the move to HD movies on disc. But a regular DVD upconverted to a 1080i flat panel TV looks fairly good, so it may take awhile for HD discs to catch on. Most HD movies on disc are at 1080p (progressive scan) which is better than the highest HD TV broadcast resolutions of 720p or 1080i (interlaced). HD discs are what you see in the retailer showroom when shoppng for a flat panel TV, which unfortuneately is much better than you get when watching HD broadcast or cable TV.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 3:37 am on Feb. 18, 2008
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expatchuck
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Does this mean my DuMont television set is no longer state-of-the-art viewing? 
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 4:11 am on Feb. 18, 2008
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ThaidUp
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Daffy your arguement is so full of crap. The reason Apple did not select a format was to stay neutral with the studios so that they could win argreements for rentals. Also, if they picked Blu-ray it would have been seen as competing with Gates, if they picked HD they would be agreeing with Gates. Neither of which Jobs wants to do. So for a coming who prides themselves on being the bleeding edge of hardware tech they are trailing behind.
Well my year old SONY laptop with BLu-ray DVD player/recorder and 1080P HDMI seems to still be state of the art. The P in 1080P stands for porn of which the laptop excels at by direct connecting to a plasma I am able to download movies and play them directly from the computer's HDMI cable.
The Blu-ray recorder makes it nice to back-up everything. 50G on one disc.
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Posted on: 6:48 am on Feb. 18, 2008
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erikE
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Quote: from ThaidUp on 10:03 pm on Feb. 18, 2008
The Blu-ray recorder makes it nice to back-up everything. 50G on one disc.
That is a lot of porn. You have no girlfriend to entertain you?
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 10:06 am on Feb. 18, 2008
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from ThaidUp on 10:03 pm on Feb. 18, 2008
Daffy your arguement is so full of crap.
Okay, if you say so.
Quote: from erikE on 1:21 am on Feb. 19, 2008
That is a lot of porn. You have no girlfriend to entertain you?
Clearly he doesn't, and if some are to be believed, this forum's to blame for that, because it *only* talks about tech stuff, and has absolutely no more naughty based content... Which TPEII was going to change dramatically - I wonder what takes him so long? Must be a lot of files to rummage through...
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 11:21 am on Feb. 18, 2008
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