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Part 5 is out. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1781561

Nah the games are what the White Drew Carey said consoles are supposed to be region free for games except that region restriction are left up to the software devs. BD regions were IIRC, NA/SA and Japan R1, China and middle east -R3, everything else R2.

http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=5050 http://www.designpaulchampagne.com/macross.html

That's not a toy. I'd say the Plush Valkyrie.

All synced up and ready to go....but I warn you now I'm not used to the control setup yet. I've only played the game for a max 35 mins. 5mins when I bought the game to make sure it worked and there was no problems with connecting wirelessly. 30 mins last night through some free for all and CTF. I've got a 250GB HD in my 60GB. I'm just waiting for them to introduce/release that record tv show gadget/feature.

Nope. I've always stated I like the proportions of the 1/60 VF-1 better then 1/48. There are others with the same opinion here. (ominous muzak)You are not alone.(/ominous muzak) Least like Valkyrie toy would be the transforming banprestos. Such a floppy mess o' crap.

The only time in the last few months I turned on the Wii was to get SFII, Fatal Fury, and Art of Fighting. Turns out what I really wanted was FF2(w/Mai Shiranui) and AoF2(w/Yuri's 100 bitch slaps). I'll turn the Wii back on for Wii games(not VC) when Okami and Super Smash show up in stores.

Joined, but yeah, I sucked at Warhawk today. At least I got in a kill or two before getting owned. Man I want a keyboard/mouse combo with that game. Oh and yeah you can hook up any external usb drive to your ps3 and backup the data. It creates a folder called PS3 on your HD.

That was pretty much a filler episode.

One word. Destroids.

Were you background d/ling it? I've noticed that it doesn't really background download if you're doing something else on the PS3 (watching movie playing games etc). Otherwise like Uxi saids you're going to have to tweak your network connections. Like you I have a many wired/wireless setup 2 Macs/1 PC wired to router. Wirelessly PS3, Wii, PSP, HTPC phone and my brothers MacBook when he visits. I had another TiBook on the wireless setup a few years back until it died but it didn't have problems then either. Granted I have a gigabit router, ultra hispeed DSL connection.....

A very good article by Joshua Zyber explaining the audio types available. http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Jos..._Explained/1064 High-Def FAQ: Blu-ray and HD DVD Audio Explained Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 04:37 PM ET Tags: Joshua Zyber (all tags) Editor's Note: As part of his twice-monthly column here at High-Def Digest, from time to time, Josh Zyber answers frequently asked questions related to High-Definition and both Blu-ray on HD DVD. This week: Josh provides a comprehensive rundown of all the audio formats currently available on next-gen disc. Commentary by Joshua Zyber If there's one request we get here at High-Def Digest more than any other, it's to help readers sort through all the confusion swirling around the new audio formats that come on HD DVD and Blu-ray discs. It seems that most early adopters can easily identify the benefit of a High Definition picture over Standard-Def DVD, but making sense of the difference between Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD, or PCM and TrueHD is a lot harder to get a good grasp on. It doesn't help that the companies who designed these sound formats (Dolby and DTS) haven't always been clear in their labeling or naming conventions. A Quick Recap of the DVD Situation On Standard-Def DVD, there are essentially only two competing sound formats to choose from: Dolby Digital or DTS. Both can accommodate movie soundtracks from monaural 1.0 to multi-channel 5.1, and in some cases add a matrixed center back channel as well (DTS also offers a discrete 6.1 option on selected titles). A small number of discs (mostly music concerts) may provide 2-channel PCM audio, but those are few and far between. As a rule of thumb, it's Dolby or DTS. The DVD spec requires all discs to contain either a Dolby Digital or PCM soundtrack as the base standard (pretty much everyone uses Dolby), and all DVD players are required to decode both. DTS is optional, and is generally considered (fairly or not) an added-value feature. Though it hasn't always panned out that way in actual practice, there is a perception in the DVD marketplace that DTS is the "better" sound option that will provide greater fidelity to the source. Sometimes that's true and sometimes not, but that's a discussion topic for another day. The reality of the situation is that both Dolby Digital and DTS are capable of delivering very good, sometimes even exceptional sound quality on DVD. Both Dolby Digital and DTS are "lossy" compression codecs. Before making it to disc, each format selectively filters out data from the studio's digital audio master using perceptual encoding techniques. In theory, the data removed should consist mainly of either frequencies beyond the range of human hearing or frequencies that would normally be masked by other frequencies in the track anyway. If done properly, the end result should sound seamless to the listener. But if done poorly or over-compressed, the audio may lose fidelity. Standard Dolby Digital can be encoded in a variety of bit rates, the most common being 192 kb/s (reserved for 1.0 or 2.0 soundtracks and generally poor fidelity), 384 kb/s (OK quality), and the maximum 448 kb/s (used on the majority of DVD 5.1 soundtracks). DTS has two bit rate encoding options: the commonly used 754 kb/s or a rarely offered high rate of 1509 kb/s. Within each format, the higher the bit rate means the less compression needed and the less data removed from the master. However, it also means that the audio track takes up more disc space, which can eat into the bit rate allocated to video quality. Also note that Dolby and DTS use entirely different compression techniques, and their bit rate numbers are not directly comparable to one another. While a 448 kb/s Dolby track is better than a 384 kb/s Dolby track, a 754 kb/s DTS track is not necessarily better than a 448 kb/s Dolby track just because the number is larger. Dolby uses more efficient compression techniques than DTS and can usually achieve results at 448 kb/s comparable to DTS at 754 kb/s. Now on to the High-Def Formats The advent of Blu-ray and HD DVD has brought a dramatic increase in picture quality from Standard Definition to High Definition. Along with that has come an expectation for an attendant boost in audio quality. When there's so much more disc space available on an HD DVD or a Blu-ray, why should we be limited to the heavily-compressed sound formats we got on DVD? High Definition video deserves High Definition audio to go with it. Jumping into the fray once more are Dolby and DTS. Each company has developed a line-up of brand new sound formats to go with the new disc types, using advanced forms of audio compression to deliver high quality to the home listener, quality sometimes matching that of the studio master itself. On some discs we even have the option of raw PCM with no compression at all. But we haven't just been given one new codec choice per company. No, that would be too simple. Now we have a whole host of confusing new options. To help straighten out this tangled mess, let's break things out by High-Def disc format and take a look at what each supports. Click the above link for detailed explanation of each audio type available for BluRay and HD- DVD.

I can respect your opinion and I can see where you're coming from but it doesn't work for me. POTC fills up the dual layer BD disc and it has phenomenal audio and video. I think someone on one of the HD forums figured it out to be in excess of 43GB. It needed to be on dual-layer Bluray. Hot Fuzz on dual layer HD-DVD is also phenomenal. I'm not sure if anyone's posted how big the movie is but the sheer volume of material on one disc must fill it up. I love all the extras that come with a movie, commentaries, special features, previews, interviews etc. Therefore to me storage and bandwidth matters. I dislike multi-disk when one disk will do as it saves on shelf space. As for combo discs, if they were cheaper, like you said, then HD-DVD would have a killer advantage. Unfortunately they average $5 more for combo then to buy to single sided HD version. People who are buying HD want the best picture and audio quality possible so most don't care about the SD version of the movie. Also I think I read a month or two back that most studios are discontinuing combos as they aren't selling.

I agree. Halo 3 mulitplayer is awesome.

Your internet connection sir sucks ass. Started downloading R&C 5mins agon and I'm at 7% downloaded. Over Wi-Fi. Ran into a Sony rep at Toys R Us today. He was there teaching the staff about some of the new stuff that was coming out. Confirmed that DualShock 3 was coming Feb/Mar of next year. Home open beta is set for the end of Oct. Talked about Motorstorm 2, Littlebigplanet, Assassin Creed, possible updates for Warhawk(air carrier level), Folklore, GT5 and how they were thinking of doing something similar for it as Valve is doing for HL2 Orange box, doesn't know why GH3 is going with a dongle instead of bluetooth,..etc. And in the time it took to type that I'm at 15% download on R&C.

They don't. See PS3's don't count as standalone players since the average J6P doesn't use it or know its a Bluray player(about 50%). That's fine. PS3 #'s DO count when it comes to amount of software sales though because BluRay with those large numbers(that include PS3 #'s) are only beating HD by about a 60:40 margin. BUT WAIT, if we don't include the PS3 #'s then the ratio jumps to 80:20(exaggerated ratio since I can't be bothered to do the math) in favor of Bluray. It's all spin. Toshiba wins standalone sales for a recent week so "HD-DVD beating Blu-ray in hardware sales" is true. Year to date HD DVD players are more prolific then BluRay stand alone players. What wasn't mentiond was that HD:BD hardware ratios were something like ~55:45 early in the year (NUMBERS ARE NOT EXACT. Go to AVSforum.com or highdefdigest forums for the numbers game) but they are only leading by about 52:48 now. Make no mistake both sides in this high def war are spewing out alot of FUD. No surprise there. Truth I want Bluray to win because I like the specs and see more potential there AND own a PS3 but I will buy an HD DVD player Dec. 2008 if Universal hasn't released Heroes on Bluray by then. Besides that article was based on what one of Toshiba's VP of marketing is saying. VP of Marketing. Tells you alot right there since she obviously isn't going to put out a press release saying their format isn't doing as well as expected. It's all spin. ALL spin. I'm off to enjoy Surfs Up on Bluray now. It's a great movie.

If Aquarion is hitting N.A. I hope Diamond or somebody else brings the Chogokin toy over. Still pissed that Diamond cancelled their import of that toy a few months back.

Wasn't that SpideyJeruselum aka Blastotoys?

That would be awesome. Maybe they'll show up on that island Sylars on.

You can't get the mainpage? That's strange since it's only html...I think. I don't have access to that part of the site so I'll leave this for Hurin or Mechamaniac.

In other words, "Buy the 60GB version w/EE before it's too late"!

I'm enjoying it so far. No need for the next big bang villain reveal just yet, they're building up to it. All we need to know is that there's a "boogeyman" and someone's out there killing the last generation of "heroes". Adventure stuff is being taken cared of by the Hiro/Kensei story line. The rest of the cast needs to have their characters filled out more, which they're doing, so it seems slow. If they went from fighting one big villain or apocalypse to the next then we'd have the Justice League aka Mutant X and that's not what I tune into Heroes to watch. If that's what you tune into Heroes for then I'd suggest waiting for sweeps week. That'd be when they pull out the big SFX stuff again. Remember Heroes = Drama first, big explosions second.

Fun with GT5/prologue. Which pic is real which is rendered? http://generationdreamteam.free.fr/Quizz.html

And Speilberg just shut down this Japan HD-DVD rumor. http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Uni...DVD_Rumors/1046 Today, however, in a statement to Blu-ray.com, Spielberg spokesperson Marvin Levy put the rumors to bed. "There are no plans to release these titles on HD DVD," said Levy. "It was a mistake and someone inadvertently put those titles into a presentation." Levy went on to tell Blu-ray.com that Universal would be making a public statement regarding this mistake in the coming days. From Speilbergs site itself. http://www.spielbergfilms.com/dreamworks/1538 October 8, 2007 Universal Japan prematurely touts Spielberg HD-DVD Just a quick note to put a kibosh on some news that circulated online this weekend: An image from a presentation held by Universal Japan has been lighting up the Internet with talk of some major Spielberg films coming to HD-DVD, top-tier titles such as “Jaws,” “E.T.,” “Jurassic Park” and more. Thing is, all of this is news to Amblin/DreamWorks who have a say in the format and issuance of Spielberg’s work on any home video format. Unfortunately, this is the second time in less than six-months that the very anxious HD-DVD group (of which Universal is a very key member when it comes to software content) have prematurely announced Spielberg titles coming to HD-DVD. At this time, there are no official plans to release any Spielberg-directed titles to the HD DVD format, except for tomorrow’s release of “Twilight Zone The Movie” (a feature that includes the short Spielberg film “Kick the Can”). Beyond “Twilight Zone” (that will be released in both HD-DVD and Blu-ray), Spielberg fans have November 13th’s high-def debut of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” to look forward to exclusively on the Blu-ray format. Beyond that, any other talk of Spielberg films on high-def at this time is premature, no matter the source, even Universal.

The HDD guys have been running that story for a few days now. HD-DVD guys are going nuts over it. Blu-Ray guys are saying this is another PR firm screwup like when the HD group originally touted Speilberg movies then retracted them after Speilbergs group refused to endorse those movies. Me, I'm going to wait and see what Speilberg has to say about this latest offering.