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It's all the same content. As long as it's the Animeigo disks it's progscan. ... I should run through mine again, now that I have a way to watch DVDs in progressive.

Pfft, sissies. I'm only on page 53.

Yeah.... Incenerator's the only movie-line toy I've really considered recently. I'd already have him if he had hands. And if he had spring-loaded rocket-fists that could be swapped for death propellers of +5 child-blinding... I'd be all over it like fleas on a stray dog.

Ummm.... Mari Ijima's the only original cast member. You make it sound like they got the entire original team together for an english reunion. And no one's really faulting her performance. It's everyone ELSE that they have issues with. Partailly since her pronouncing Macross right makes everyone else's varying mispronunciations all the more jarring.

The Studio 2 is the single worst console in history. The Virtual Boy is a damn fine platform that was never given a fair chance because it was "a red gameboy" that "melts eyeballs" It's demise was one of the greatest tragedies of the entire gaming industry, and has likely ruined any chances we're ever going to see a system with 3D graphics in our lifetime.

It is. But for some reason, that often doesn't translate into electronics, and tech manufacturers proudly assume a 1:1 exchange rate. And if you think that's bad.... they do it to the pound too. And while a euro is worth 1.47 US dollars at this moment, a pound is 1.95. http://www.xe.com/

*sigh* IT'S NOT SONY'S FORMAT. No more than CD or DVD was, anyways. The format is owned by the BluRay Disc Association, who is also the official developer(though I certainly agree Sony was the primary developer). Sony is one of 18 companies on the board of directors. The full list is... Apple, Inc. Dell HP Hitachi LG Mitsubishi Electric Panasonic Pioneer Philips Samsung Sharp Sony Sun Microsystems TDK Thomson Twentieth Century Fox Walt Disney Warner Bros. Note that several hardware manufacturers are in there. I think it's pretty safe to say they would be somewhat unamused if Sony attempted to lock them all out of the format, and any such motion would be voted down.

My 5900 had thermal pads for the RAM, and something resembling old bubblegum for the GPU. For what it's worth. I'd recommend changing the heatsink just on noise issues. If they aren't passively cooled, video cards tend to have really offensive fans. I'm using a Zalman on my 5900, and it's a night-and-day thing. Granted the 5900 had a nasty squirrel-cage, but still...

I can't say on EVERYTHING. But I've only watched Frontier 1 once so far. Now the Nyan-Nyan song... god help me, it won't get out of my head!

Actually, it's NOT legal. At least, not if the license agreement is considered valid. Apple's OS license explicitly forbids you installing the software on non-Apple products.

I'd just like to take this moment to remind everyone that BetaRay is jsut another proprietary Sony format doomed to join a long list of proprietary Sony formats that no one ever used. God DAMN, but I'm glad I can stuff that in the fanboys' faces now! ... Even though I preferred HD-DVD due to the fact that they had a complete format from day 1 instead of BR's rushed incomplete 1.0 and updated 1.1 that wont' work on everything and further 2.0 that's even less supported. Also, red boxes > blue boxes. Though I admit BR is the technically superior format.

Ah. Shows how much I keep up, I suppose. Wait.... people buy music? As in, like, pay money? ... Kidding. I suspect my collection would be a lot bigger if I were all "ARR, MATEY!" about it. From what I know, it seems more like Newton 2 than an iPod. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. Newton was becoming a great platform when Apple bailed on it and let Palm take over the market(and subsequently fumble it to Microsoft). But no buttons is pretty much an automatic deal breaker for me. My standard usage pattern IS blind playback. Which, sadly, is becoming more and more difficult with every passing model revision on everyone's lineup. Market's basically segregated into cheap junk and iPod imitators(ignoring the f'ing huge stuff.... which is roughly the same size as my Xtra...).

WINNAR!1111 I'd be scared if you did, really. Fancy! *genuinely impressed* I doubt the zoom, and have no idea on the keyboard, or QWERTY keyboard, but Archos has the touch-click thingie. They're running Opera, so.... *shrugs* I think that's really the only other media player line with a web browser. They've also integrated a content portal into the 05 line, so you can download corporate-approved media on the go. If I recall Apple hasn't integrated iTunes into the Touch/iPhone yet. Honestly, my main point was... video is massively larger per second than audio. Therefore, the player that's more oriented towards movies should have the bigger capacity. Though my preferred listening mode IS to stuff everything in a single monolithic playlist and hit shuffle. The fact that this doesn't max my player capacity tells me I need more music.

http://macross.anime.net/characters/j/inde...niusMyleneFlare No date, but...

Ah. That'd make sense. I thought you meant GM was checking him because of the original TV show. If he's currently contracted for GM ads, that's different.

You're thinking too new-school. The ExoSquad toys were WAY later. The original toyline imported the diecast destroid toys from Japan. I had a Phalanx/Spartan/thing with the drum arms full of missiles. They also brought over the Joke Machine VF-1. I had a Max 1J. The plastic swing bars that connected the two halves of the body sucked. Which is why it went bye-bye long before the rest of my Robotech toys. Pity, really. It was one of my favorite toys from the period. In a major embarassment to HG, they couldn't get the realistic VF-1 because Hasbro'd already licensed it for Transformers. Whoops!

Do me a favor. Start your Touch playing, then drop it in your pocket. Now change tracks. Even asuming the capacitance sensors WORK through the pocket... Old-fashioned or not, the Touch fails the blind playback test. I don't want to look at the player just to change tracks. It's been a common gripe I've seen with the iPhone, though on the phone side instead of the media side. It's a pain to dial/text-message with no keypad ridges. There's a reason that no-button control surfaces died almost as fast as they appeared back in the 79-81 period. On a related note, the modern iPods would benefit greatly from 1 change, IMNSHO. I'd put a rim on the scrollring so you have some tactile feedback before you slide off it. That's a big gripe I've had when I messed with the demo units. My thumb slides right off the scrollring if I try to do a full circle instead of using it as a single vertical stripe(which defeats the purpose of having a ring, yes?). The flush control surface is a serious case of form over function if you ask me. On a wholely unrelated note, I'd also like them to straighten their product line out a bit. The Touch has the screen size of a video player, and the storage space of a music player. The standard iPod has the screen of a music player, and the space of a video player. But now I'm veering off-topic. I'm not really anti-Apple. Just unimpressed with the iPod line as it stands now. I think Apple needs some real competition to give them a good kick. (Hey, at least I spared everyone the Shuffle rant...) I've messed with exactly 0. I BRIEFLY toyed with the idea of getting an Archos 604 Wifi for that option, but... it was a stupid reason to pick an MP3 player and there were compelling reasons to NOT get a 604. And the 605 makea it an extra feature that costs more money, so it's no longer a point of interest. Then the entire upgrade plan was put aside. Need to get back to that.

Only if you were flying a Fire Bomber jet when you reached the boss(final boss excepted, since you're forced to Basara for that one). If you're NOT Fire Bomber, you can blow 'em to Hell. Honestly, I had trouble dodging attacks while hitting the beat. And since later bosses were more aggressive AND had more complex beats.... yeah, I never finished it, despite it being a rather lightweight shooter.

That's a bit outdated, really. I mean.... you can get a few models of flash-RAM player in 32GB now. The 1.8" HDD capacities have also gone way up. The MacBook Air, as a current highly visible(highly over-rated) example, has an 80GB 1.8" drive. And the "full-size" HDD players? Extinct. Even the 2.5" laptop drive players are almost gone. Cowon is a highly respected brand. They don't have the budget of some other companies, but they take their work seriously. Archos is hit-and-miss from what I gather. They've had some quality control issues in the past, but they make pretty decent hardware when it works. Creative... I cannot in good conscience recommend a Creative player. I like their hardware, but... they suck. And that Zen Xtra I mentioned owning? Even though it's a 4-year old player, I got mine about a year ago. Creative released a new firmware to upgrade the Xtra to PlaysForSure... unfortunately, it was a buggy firmware that bricked pretty much every Xtra it was installed on. People that sent it to Creative were told it was out of warranty, and the cost to fix it was high enough that it was generally more practical to go buy a new MP3 player. So Creative polished the big pile of Xtras people didn't want back, got them working again on an older firmware revision, and released a metric butt-ton of refurb Xtras into the marketplace. And to this day they STILL have the fatal firmware up for download on their website. Their newest Zen player has apparently been plagued by issues, both in terms of hardware reliability and firmware issues.

The latter. The GU-11 has no provision for reloading in the field. Nope. Two reasons: 1. The VF-1 "engine" isn't really similar to the jet engines used in the VF-0. You'd have to do a massive overhaul to make it work. 2. The VF-0 was never intended to be a service plane. It's a one-off testbed platform. There's no real point to upgrading the engines instead of just borrowing a few VF-1s once production gets up to speed.

To add to the not-FLAC lossless... Zune WILL do WMA Lossless. Which is lossless, but not FLAC. Or Apple's lossless format, the name of which escapes me at the moment. As far as actual FLAC support.... Cowon's players will do it with official firmware. .... Which is basically a more to-the-point version of what Azrael said. Anything compatible with Rockbox will play it after you reflash it with Rockbox. http://www.rockbox.org/ Might get some useful info at http://dapreview.net/ And as far as input goes... I refuse to buy a player without tactile feedback. The iPod Touch is an abysmal nightmare of style over substance IMO. But then, I'm kicking around an old Creative Zen Xtra I was given as a christmas gift. Need to upgrade it, really. There's some annoyances in the firmware that Creative's never gonna fix(and it doesn't use MTP or or MSC, so it's dependent on Creative's drivers).

A. A US SNES can play Super FamiCom games. There's just 2 tabs in the back of the cart port that need removing. B. Emulation. Or you can play the game and earn the QRau legit. Pity it's not usable in story mode.

Well, two of the three fit nicely in a trash dumpster. KR2K was fun, but it's kinda unworkable at this point.

Haven't really had a gaming-grade PC in ages. And honestly, FPSes were never my strong point anyways. But I played the ever-loving crap out of Shogo.

With GM? The company that sent a legal notice to the producers requesting they not refer to KITT as a TransAm because they were sick of people asking dealerships for the TransAm with the Knight Rider computer in it?