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! Must. Have. Devastator.

And you are a dipshit who is ignorant of consumer electronic trends and the concept of supply and demand. Why not stop bashing me and go get your G.E.D. instead. A brain........it does a body good. Unlike some people, I actually made it through high school. Anyways... What makes an LCD expensive is the manufacturing process. Baring radical new fabrication techniques, we've just about hit the limits of practical direct-view LCDs. Supply and demand is irrelevant. We just can't GET larger LCDs reliably enough for a consumer price point to be viable. It's not a matter of people wanting them, it's a matter of being able to make them in volume. We can't, and there's no visible way to do it near-future. If you knew anything about electronics manufacture, you'd understand this. Or in words more appropriate for someone of your intellectual caliber... Bigger = harder, and we're already working as hard as we can. Depends on the tech used, as well as the kind of projector. Front-projection works great. I dare you to find a movie theater with a limited viewing angle. Try to find one with a DLP projector. Fun, I tell ya. No film scratches, no dirt, no nothing. And it's relevant. Weren't you just advocating direct-view LCD, anyways? LCD DEFINES limited view angle. Sharp as a marshmellow, I tell ya.

Just thoughts about mech VS tank... The Monster, Defender, and Phalanx aren't front-line units. And the Monster is basically one giant shock absorber. The Phalanx was jury-rigged for the sole purpose of adding missiles to the Prometheus and Daedalus in space. So I guess the ability to walk across the ship's skin is good enough reason to not be wheeled. That or they just didn't have many tank parts to work with aboard the Macross. Anyways, these three get greater terrain-handling capabilities with no real penalty, aside from increased repair costs due to the more complex mechanics of legs VS wheels(which is trivial next to the maintainence costs of variable fighters). ... Well, I'm not sure about how much the Monster can step over, but the other 2 almost certainly can. The Monster and Defender actually BENEFIT from their higher profile, given their intended rolls. Gives them a mildly greater range. The Tomahawk seems to be a jack-of-all-trades device. Big guns, anti-infantry weapons, missiles, everything all in one unit. Not the best at anything, but a good general-purpose unit. Primary advantage over tanks: ability to fire cannons in 2 directions while unleashing everything else in a third. Suspiciously similar to Gundam's guntank, only with legs. Legs make everything better. Rule of animation #1. Spartan... Aside from corp of engineers, I don't see much pre-zentradi use. It's primarily designed for melee combat(and is shown doing it a few times), though it has a few missiles and weapons(Tomahawk - cannons + anti-aircraft lasers + hands). Demolitions may be a reasonable alternative use. Would make a really cool bunker buster.

DLP projector! Darker blacks, brighter whites, and pray you don't see the rainbow effect.

That would be the most awesome fight ever.

Actually, IIRC, they've had SWAG since before Zero...It's just that Kawamori never put a name to that face.... SWAG would only be effective against kinetic weaponry (of course, both sides are using armor-piercing ammo so...). SWAG doesn't work for energy weapons. Sounds like a good excuse to me.

Because if they were energy shields you would have seen something that looks like them. FV It's called SWAG armor, moron.

That makes a lot of sense. I keep forgetting that little piece of tech because it wasn't introduced untill Zero. ... Though it raises a question. If they already had energy shields on fighters, why bother with the pin-point barriers in Plus?

MONSTER GIRL! YES! ... Wish I could draw.

Yes. A tragic test-flight accident left him crippled, so they gave him new cybernetic legs. And he demanded they add a foot to his height. </total_bs>

You gotta have Shockwave and Brawn, too. And.... MORE SHOCKWAVE! ... Wouldn't mind seeing Omega Supreme either, but I've always had a thing for overkill...

Part of the armour of modern tanks is glacis sloped to deflect incoming shells. Destroids shown in Macross have almost zip for glacis, so they would be very subsceptible to modern 120mm tank shells (say from an M1A1 Abrams). That only applies to the front face. Hit an Abrams in the side or the back and it's a LOT more vulnerable. And a Spartan or a Tomahawk can move fast and nimbly enough to take advantage of this(only 2 original series mechs that are likely to go into front-line combat). And a tank looking up at a mech will HAVE to hit at an angle. Unless they're shooting at legs.

You kidding? Spam is great! ... But only when it's fried.

Yes, but we've already established that you're about as sharp as a marshmellow. Your price predictions are laughable. Your justifications are pathetic. You are inane.

Because they like seeing grown men cry.

This topic was not created to lurk for trouble. I just simply wanted to know what you MW guys would do if you had no more Macross. *scratches head* How would the totally preposterous and highly unlikely events you have sketched delete Macross from existence? That's like saying DYRL made the original TV series not exist. Anyways... this is, sadly, not the dumbest poll I have ever seen. But it certainly ranks in the top ten.

Landslide? 50/50 isn't even near it. And it's been hovering about 50/50 since shortly after creation. I'd argue that both sides are stuffing the ballot box, because it's more amusing than neither side doing it, which is the only other statistical possibility.

Says it supports analog audio inputs. If it doesn't include the cables, they're standard RCA connectors, so you can grab a pair for 10$ at MalWart. ... Provided you don't already have a dozen RCA cables of varying lengths laying around from God knows what.

Precisely. Without something capable of taking an optical digital audio feed, there's no point to having the fiberoptic cable.

Roughly twice whatever you have at the time is. It's the unwritten rule of media.

Yah. Destroids came first. I'm sure there was a good reason. Psych warfare?

*ahem* If you have an older-model GameCube, with the digital AV out, you can get component cables. 30$ from store.nintendo.com. This lets you do progressive-scan. No resolution bonuses. The XBox... supports high-res component video with the high-definition AV pack.

Is there a non-digital TV that does progressive scan?!? I'm not trying to be snotty, I'm seriously asking! I think they're all digital monitors. But still, PS2 only outputs progressive-scan analog signals. It's still possible, but less likely than on an RPTV. The RPTV CRTs are driven a lot harder/brighter in order to project a nice image on the screen. That makes them more prone to burn-in. You'd have to really abuse a CRT (IMHO) to get it to burn, I would think. . . but I'd still be careful! Yah. You usually see burn-in in old arcade machines. I'm sure yu've seen the phantom maze and Game Over on an old PacMan somewhere.

PS2 is progressive scan analog only. I've never caued burn-in on a direct-view CRT. DLP has nothing to burn. Like LCD in that respect. It uses an array of small mirrors on a microchip. Only technologies tha tuse phospors are prone to burn-in. And plasma sets drive the phosphors harder than CRTs, as I understand things. You can get darn thin DLP projectors.

And even in the original Macross the pilots had homing beacons that activated on eject(if I recall, that was how they found Hikaru after the botched Daedalus attack shot him down). ... Except there was only one successful eject in the entire series, and a second that was intercepted during liftoff, as opposed to a dozen an episode. Of course THAT was on Earth... On Earth we have gravity, not endless drifting into space. Doesn't matter. They can send retrieval units out. They fetched Hikaru, Misa, Max, and Kakzaki out of a Reguld with no homing beacon.