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Yes. And it rules.

Just saw this. It is pure awesomeness.

What does Kyon's sister have to do with anything?

I think I saw that plot in the original series, actually.

I recommend Saitek. I use a P880. It's been replaced by the P990, which uses the same d-pad, along with the rest of their product line. I've heard good things about Thrustmaster's pads, but they feel funny in my hands.

Yes. Yuki owns all. ... Unless Haruhi gets mad at the world again.

It's not obvious to me! What was it? 407927[/snapback] They were launching the Gun***!

A. ROM form means the original carts. You want ROM images. Except disk games are disk images. B. Planetemu doesn't have the CD games, which the PCE Macross titles are. I'm not sure of a reliable place to get them.

Everything I've seen says the R2 MacPlus movie is a proper DVD release instead of a VHS rip. But no subtitles.

Haruhi wins the interweb, intarweb, internet, intranet, extranet, and IRL. And Kyon sucks for talking Yuki out of wearing glasses. Even if it WAS an accident.

HDCP WON'T work over analog. But the point is to prevent ANY HD copying, not just digital copies. So if HDCP is enabled, the player HAS to disable HD analog signals. It's not possible to have HDCP-compliant component or RGB lines, so the HDCP license forces the player manufacturer to cripple analog outputs.

Well, it COULD be a Linux box. Like the NetYaroze before it, Sony had some very serious schizophrenia and did everything they could to ensure that no one BOUGHT PS2 Linux. I wouldn't count on it. My bet is they're spewing gibberish, like usual.

Fair enough. I do tend to look a bit longer-term at things. Short-term, I guess they DID accomplish their goals, more or less.

Heh. I JUST finished watching that. Too bad the episode itself referenced that OTHER mech franchise.

On other system recommendations... Try NEStopia for the NES game. I've heard BSNES is currently the best SNES emulator. That'll cover Scrambled Valkyrie. ... Meh. If BSNES doesn't work(takes a heck of a machine. My comp is borderline, I get lots of crackling sound), try ZSNES. It has better sound emulation than SNES9x, the third major SNES emu..

Well, they COULD have meant PC in a diffrent sense. That it was a general-purpose computer instead of a fixed-function device. But the quote makes it clear how they meant it. They've had so many crazy PR statements the last few years that I'm not sure what to make of their comments anymore.

Soooo, how do they plan to market this??? By saying "ZOMG PLAYSTATION GIVE US MONIES!1111" Pretty much. They seem to be using the PS3 to force BluRay into homes, and they've priced themselves out of the market in the process. That's what they said when DVDs first appeared too. Wait a few years for prices to fall and HDTV to become more mainstream. THEN start making predictions.

Except for one major problem. BluRay uses the HDCP copy-protection scheme. If HDCP is enabled, than analog outputs as well as digital outputs that aren't HDCP-enabled are restricted to... I think it's 512p. Without HDMI, which includes HDCP in the spec, or the incredibly rare DVI+HDCP, there's no guarantee you'll be able to GET HD playback out of your HD media. A second problem is that I don't think the dinky multi-out connector Sony's been using since the PS1 is capable of delivering high-bandwidth signals, and that's the connector the PS3 uses for analog output. It'd be nice if I was wrong, though.

Again, it's only because the TV does a lousy job upsampling. Any non-CRT display requires resampling hardware inside it to convert all incoming images to the display's native resolution. But they cheap out and use the minimum needed to generate a picture instead of the more expensive hardware needed to generate a GOOD picture. A TV with a good resampler inside it would deliver similar results. Possibly even better results. A HD CRT would deliver optimum results, as it would run at the DVD's native resolution, avoiding the need to resample the image to start with, while still benefiting from the higher build quality needed to make it an HD display. Strange... That's about right. Though the 600$ PS3 is still way too expensive for a game machine. Hell, the 500$ PS3 is too expensive, and it lacks HDMI output. Arguably, you'll get cleaner lines that way. Conventional animation is drawn at "infinite" resolution, so... I focused on DYRL and MacPlus because they were intended for theatrical viewing. There's generally a lot more detail on movies, because they wind up on a 200-foot perfectly-focused screen instead of a 20-50 inch poorly-focused TV. I assumed this was a "once HD movie disks go mainstream" discussion.

I admit that they were thrust into a situation they had no hope whatsoever of comprehending. But they brought back very little of any military value to the zentradi. What they DID bring back ultimately provoked rioting and mutiny through Britai's fleet, forcing him to arrange a cease-fire with the humans. So the group that benefitted from the spy mission was... the humans. While it WAS due to the fact that their society left them completely unequiped to comprehend the situation, they STILL failed in the worst possible way. They caused the defection of a 1200-ship fleet to the human side of the war, along with a highly-respected commander. And the knowledge gained from the defectors was what enabled humanity to defeat Bodolza's fleet. Their mission actually couldn't have been less of a failure if the Macross' crew had captured and imprisoned them, actively fed them bad information, and then contaminated them with a bioweapon before letting them "escape" to report back to their superiors. As is... Britai's fleet and Lap'Lamiz' fleet defect to the human side, increasing the size of our force by over 1200x. Kamjin's fleet defects from the zentradi side(I'd say good riddance, but they seemed to like him). An attack on Bodol's flagship, planned using knowledge gained from Britai and Exedol, destroys said flagship, resulting in the dissolution of the Bodol main fleet. Or what's left of it after the grand cannon goes off, the human-zentradi alliance opens fire during a massive psych-warfare attack, and the flagship explodes. They lost nearly 2 million vessels in that battle. A factory satellite is subsequently stolen, reducing the zentradi's already severely reduced capacity to replace lost equipment. All because of 3 spies. That's a pretty big screw-up. Again, I understand they were thrust into a situation they were completely incapable of comprehending. But they STILL failed dismally by any reasonable standard.

No problem, it's a confusing name. The PCEngine is a japanese game console that has no personal computerattributes whatsoever, in the generic or IBM PC sense of the term. It was released in the US as the TurboGrafx16. You CAN download things to play software for the PCEngine(or just about any other console, including machines you've never heard of, some with good reason) on your PC. They're called emulators. Magic Engine is considered the best PCEngine emu, but it's shareware, with a very short timer until you DO register it.

A. Or 480p. B. It's quite possible to make a player with digital out but NOT upsampling. In fact, such players exist, though they are not commonly marketed anymore. The "so-called up convert" is actually an upsampling of the image. They take the 720*480 of a standard DVD and resize it to the 1280*720 or 1920*1080 that HDTVs natively display. It's an ACTUAL upconvert, not a "so-called" one. As I said, the "advantage" is that the players typically use better resampling routines than the TVs. Which is painfully backwards, since the TV has to deal with all non-native sources, and the DVD player only has to deal with one. Are you actually USING all your HD component ports? A set of HD component inputs can take SD component signals just fine, so there's no reason to avoid using the HD component connectors on non-HD sources. Sadly, the guys at Best Buy THINK they know what they're saying, but they don't ACTUALLY know a lot more than the customers they're offering "advice" to. Prydef.

Well the punch up was from the first time they experenced a culture shock and when they only saw the miss macross show so that can't really be used as a good example. With the inital debreifing yes there was no military information, but that wasn't what the show wanted to focus on at the time, it was after the Zentradi experincing culture shocks and military data which we already knew about would have been a bit boring. They should have still introduced some evidence in the debriefing scene that the spies brought back important information, if they did. Failure to understand the society doesn't mitigate the fact that they screwed up badly. Thats Kamjin, Kaifun was that annoying passafist that was trying to get with minmei. DOH! I always get those 2 mixed up! WHY?!?!?! ... Show would've been a lot more interesting if something similar to Hikaru's nightmare in Phantasm had happened and Kaifun DID turn into a zentradi warrior.

Pretty good. Most PCEngine titles worth having never made it to America, so I can't really see that side of the Virtual Console taking off without new localization efforts. I haven't seen anything even remotely credible making the claim you can use original media for anything other than GameCube. Sort of. Think XBox Live Arcade. Copyright protection applies to everything, not just major franchises. And would get so many lawsuits dropped on them so fast that hypocrisy would be the least of their concerns(as if they ever cared about it to start with). It's all business. And they're getting permission from EVERYONE, not just the biggest labels. I guarantee that the owners of every game on the Virtual Console service are being paid for it. As you noted, though, games like the Macross series have more hands in the cookie jar. If Masaya's license has expired(doesn't Bandai have the Macross game license currently?), or only applied to PCEngine releases, a new agreement would have to be worked out, and it would become too expensive to release when they could do a title with only 1 payout instead.

The only diffrence between watching regular DVD on an upsampling player and with "native" output on a fixed-resolution HDTV is which end has the better upsampling hardware. Upsampling players aren't a magic bullet that makes things look better, just a compensation for the traditionally crappy resamplers in TVs. IIRC, DLP is a Texas Instruments technology. I've seen it advertised on awards shows such as the Oscars, Grammys and Emmys. 407322[/snapback] Yeah. Pretty neat tech, really.