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Who’s going to play the new version of that kitchen counter?

about 11 hours ago on Jean-Claude Van Damme's 'Timecop' targeted for possible remake

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@dagamer34… You talk to your mom even after she goes to sleep? Ok. I visit my mom for two week stretches and she goes to bed around 8-9pm. I have an Xbox at the house there, and I bring my 360’s hard drive to play games some nights.

During the day, I talk with my mom, eat with my mom, do yard work, errands, etc. Mildly shocking you’re unable to imagine anything as nuanced as my trips.

1 day ago on The new Xbox: what do we know about Microsoft's next console?

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That elitist logic is actually a little flawed, and actually talking about something else – how people opt to spend their time. I could turn that on you and say “If you need the internet to go down before you go read a book or call a friend, that’s another discussion.”

This is more about how relying upon connectivity and high-speed bandwidth for a game console could get annoying for some people. It would be something like “I was thinking I could play that game I got last week but I don’t have internet at my new apartment yet,” or “We don’t have internet up at the ski lodge and the damn xbox won’t play movies if it can’t connect.”

or

“We were planning on playing CoD tonight but the internet was out. I only play once a week and it has to go out tonight!”

4 days ago on The new Xbox: what do we know about Microsoft's next console?

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Or say, when Netflix loses the rights to show a bunch of movies…

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57388139-93/netflix-streaming-deal-with-starz-ends/

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/05/netflix-loses-1794-videos-from-its-streaming-catalog/

4 days ago on The new Xbox: what do we know about Microsoft's next console?

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You don’t? Maybe you’re on the wrong article.

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I agree. It’s funny how convenient a physical DVD or BR disk is when you actually try to figure out how to store 15 gigs of information or easily carry it around.

4 days ago on The new Xbox: what do we know about Microsoft's next console? 2 recommends

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I had to stop reading when you stated “…movies are filmed in HD.” Even for the ones that are, that doesn’t mean that much when it comes to taking a movie and generating the files that get used to make Blu-Rays or DVDs.

And “resampling” for a DVD only happens once to create a file – nearly insignificant to the price of the final product. The media needed for storage and processing for 4k or 2K files easily negates any lower cost you think an HD file has over more cost generating a DVD ‘resampled’ res file. And truthfully, that mastering happens and the files are made, then used for years. It’s insignificant in what you’re talking about for cost.

Manufacturing a Blu-Ray is not the same as making a DVD; its similar but the tolerances in manufacturing are different. There are fewer manufacturing facilities that can handle Blu-Ray and scheduling is more impacted and pricey because of it. Also, BR as a tech is hitting later in the arc of demand for home-ownership of movies/media, so it will never be as big as DVD has been, as people are able to watch a lot of content on services like Netflix, iTunes, and on demand cable systems, and the fewer people that are buying BR have shown they will pay and support that premium price. It’s likely not going to hit super low DVD prices except for the inevitable clearance bins.

Your logic for pricing and the reasons behind it aren’t correct, is what I’m saying.

4 days ago on The new Xbox: what do we know about Microsoft's next console? 1 recommend

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It’s crazy how every time I log in to Xbox LIVE, the majority of the 5 or 6 friends also on LIVE at the time are watching Netflix, and not gaming. MS really saw the potential and made it happen. It’s just an expensive, noisy, and over-powered way to provide content and Netflix. MS could offer an AppleTV-like device, a non-gaming device, and get some people who think a “Game System” is not what they want, and shut off when they hear PlayStation and XBox.

Conversely, I also believe the rumors that Apple plans to sell a controller that can play games on the AppleTV with an OS update.

6 days ago on Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013

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Or a little Android “puck” like Apple TV.

Yeah, or maybe a little BALL. They should make that. Here in the United States. Yeah.

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Oh yeah, that thing.

6 days ago on Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013

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Maybe just One More Time.

8 days ago on The story behind Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories'

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Yes, Pitchfork is going off. I didn’t know what was happening at first as I read the latest Vampire Weekend interview, but now I see they’re giving the lead interviews each week a little extra web juice. I like the effort.

8 days ago on The story behind Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' 1 recommend

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“Since then they’ve just gone more and more into being full-on disco.”

Maybe go back and recall the list of influencers in the song ‘Teachers’… It’s always been disco.
And although I wrote it off a bit the week it came out, Robot Rock is actually fucking great. Although, like fox8er below me, I’m an overly forgiving Daft Punk fanboy from before the release of Homework.

8 days ago on The story behind Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories'

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You know, I think if you go back and listen to Discovery, you’ll find some candy-pop 80s synth jams that have sort of a Phoenix sound… they sound a bit like what’s been leaked in a way.

8 days ago on The story behind Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories'