it’s nice for you that you allowed yourself to be brainwashed by the lamescream media into buying all that when it isn’t needed (imo): wi-fi, entertainment systems, and all that goes with it. i’m just fine with what i have.

i have a 52-inch Philips full HD LCD TV (paying in monthly installments). my surround sound Technics stereo (with sub-woofer) gives me excellent sound. all of my dvd players and dvd recorders have HDMI connections, and i have my cable box recorder. it’s not HD, but it’s still excellent. and there aren’t enough HD channels to warrant switching to an HD cable recorder.

and i can surf the internet on my tv through my archos 7.

so have fun with your stuff. i’ll have fun with mine.

thanks for the info anyway.

Get yourself a slimline PC (based on ATOM for example) to put under your TV. Use either Windows XP MCE (Get an MCE remote as well) or similar. Put a 1TB hard disk in it, and use something along the lines of the Homeplug networking kits that use your mains electric wiring as network cables (up to 85Mbps these days). If you do it right, you can have a slient PC that you can watch DVD’s on, listen to your music collection through (Mine is hooked up to a 5.1 surround system via fibre optic link), download and watch films, Timeshift TV watching (if you get a TV card) and even surf the internet from your armchair! If you have a HD TV, then you can even get better quality films than if they are on DVD! Similarly, many TV programs can now be downloaded in HD quality!

i don’t actually make dvds, unless i’m copying one or downloading one.

i usually put 6 avi movies, or tv series avis on a blank.

i also can transfer avis to my archos 7 that i pop into the archos dvr station and connect to my tv.

Catflap- I used to do DVD’s like you do, found a better way though. Check out LinuxMCE, Mythtv, Ubuntu, Slackware. hmm- actually I think most any modern operating system will allow you to connect your system to your TV, and setting up a remote to work from your couch is pretty darn easy… I usually work at my desk- just to keep in the mental frame of ‘work’… but all my PC entertainment and recreation, I get from my couch. A bit of preparation and there’s no need to shuffle around physical disks anymore- unless of course you just like taking the time to back everything to dvd… If you think about it though, having a bunch of (presumably labeled) elicit dvd’s, lying around might not be the smartest idea- HD space is cheap these days… It’s wiser to double up your storage space for backup, and encrypt you data… Encryption passwords are generally considered to be protected by the 5th amendment here in the US, especially if the password itself constitutes an admission of a crime; Not so anymore in the UK, but there’s still ‘hidden’ plausible deniability encryption setups for UK users in need of assured privacy… In these days of DPI, unjust punitive draconian laws, and absurd civil suit damages being awarded, the bar on what’s legitimately ‘paranoid’ security measures has been moved significantly. Live or Virtual OS’s, Full disk Encryption and a solid VPN (from a company that won’t/can’t rat you out- you MUST read the fine print- I recommend TorrentFreedom or CryptoCloud) are just smart safety measures now- no tinfoil hat required…

Exactly what kind of TEA are you EATING?!?

Seriously – if Hollywood had a system like the BBC iPlayer but with everything in HD – and where I could “rent” the latest films for maybe £1 then I would probably pay. Like the iPlayer, they could use P2P as an extremely cheap distribution model!

I saw a motivational pic once which made fun of the Aussies MPAA/RIAA Style Anti-Piracy Ad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJuw8EA0cYQ) that plays before every movie in a cinema here in Melbourne (Well the cinemas Ive been too, and Yes I watch movies at the Cinema No lol I have 3 movie tix in my wallet but I am pro-piracy movement

and btw, if your thinking it I am, not a hypocrite I am a university student, and we do have Social lives I just watch occasional movies at the cinema)

anyway in the poster they replaced ‘you wouldnt steal a car’ with ‘you wouldnt download a car’ (was the text in the pic and said FxxK you I would If I could)

First of all, that is impossible, I dont know how a Car can fit through a tiny modem :S lol and Limewire or uTorrent look nothing like a big blue download button lol

and I have a gem for fellow p2pnet readers this ad; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGCJ7qYI48E is a 90s anti-piracy video that are on multiple videos we bought during the 90s; I can just imagine someone with a video with the label ‘Pirate Video’ and a Pirate song starts playing (:

Even if I did not find “market share” and “business model”, what a useless article!

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/27344

What happened to the music industry on the road from the “Beat” era to the “Bit” era?

There are many articles written on the topic. Most of them are absurd, referring to concepts like “business model”, “market share” and other abstractions.

They remind me of a placebo – a dummy pill that was placed on patient’s table. The patient looks at the pill and tells himself that everything will be fine, everything goes as expected, everything will come back to normal…

I would like to talk about abstractions of another level, the ones not directly related to the business itself, but are directly related to its death – Charisma, Illusions and Energy…

no one wants to sit at a pc anymore. we all want to take the film to the sofa and watch it on tv.

wi-fi streaming isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and a whole lot of people (including myself) won’t allow ourselves to be pushed in that direction.

i have 3 dvd players and a dvr connected to my tv. that’s all i want and need. my pc is where i download films and tv programs, and my living room sofa and tv is where i watch them. it’s simpler and easier to put the videos on a blank dvd and pop it into a dvd player – all of which are xvid/divx compatible. and btw, i have dvd players from panasonic, jvc, philips and sony. all of these companies sell handycams used for camming films…

it’s now very rare to find a dvd player that doesn’t play xvid and divx. i believe that this is standard in all new players at least in the past 7-8 years. all new portable video devices also have this as standard.

at least the manufacturers of the players know what the customers want. pity that hollydud still doesn’t get it.