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    10 Classic Analog Games Defiled By Digital

    MPAA Still Trying to Plug Your Analog Hole with Selectable Output Control

    Image.jpg Could Be The First Analog Digital Photo Frame

    DIY List Breathes New Life Into Discarded Analog TVs

    Goodbye, Analog Static

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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    11/07/09

    In reply to 10 Classic Analog Games Defiled By Digital
    The Rock/Paper/Scissors thing makes me want to say things and do things that would have Homeland Security sniping me from outside my home. #games
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    11/06/09

    In reply to 10 Classic Analog Games Defiled By Digital
    It seems that turning an "analog" game into digital is just a way to milk more money without being creative. #games
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    Image of psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
    11/06/09

    In reply to 10 Classic Analog Games Defiled By Digital
    I have to say, as an avid chess player, and geek-tard, I like the chess board. The Rubik's Cube isn't so bad either.

    Everything else can kiss my butt. #games
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/06/09

    In reply to 10 Classic Analog Games Defiled By Digital

    Is there a digital version of this?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/06/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Ooh, image+comment=FAIL! #games
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    Image of Monty Monty
    11/06/09

    In reply to 10 Classic Analog Games Defiled By Digital
    I have to say, having to turn that plastic cube everywhere only adds to the frustration of spending hours trying to solve the original. A new electronic version should allow us to hack into it's global network and turn into a Borg Cube controlled by Pee Wee Herman who will no doubt use it to capture the attention of children in far-off galaxies.

    On second thought, I want Pee Wee to remain an Earth-only phenomenon, so I will continue to endure the wrist pain and stick with the puzzle I have never solved without the help of Google. Technology be damned.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/06/09

    @Monty: "On second thought, I want Pee Wee to remain an Earth-only phenomenon, so I will continue to endure the wrist pain"

    Take solace in knowing that Pee Wee is enduring some wrist pain of his own... #games
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    Image of psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
    11/06/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: I see what you did there...in the theater...

    *pukes* #games
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    11/06/09

    In reply to 10 Classic Analog Games Defiled By Digital
    9 of these are horrid, terrible ideas, fueled by money crazed executives.

    1 is so awesome, one wonders if it appears here only because it's awesomeness took hold of the writer's mind and forces him to add it to things it shouldn't be to just stand out even more.

    Yes I'm talking about that incredible Vacuum tube chess set. It's awesome. Very awesome, and does not deserve to be on this list.
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    Image of masshuum masshuum
    11/06/09

    @RoboBagins: I was just going to say. That chess set is just neat and hardly a digital conversion. But, any reason to show it off is good enough for me.

    I also was completely flabbergasted to see the rock, paper, scissors contraption. It actually offended my delicate nature.
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    Image of davebg5 davebg5
    11/06/09

    In reply to 10 Classic Analog Games Defiled By Digital
    This list is incomplete without the Monopoly game that has a digital bank/credit cards.

    First, I learned to count money with that game.

    Second, I learned how to cheat/steal with that game. #games
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    11/06/09

    @davebg5: Third, it's keeping you entertained during your prison term for fraudulent property sales and refinancing scams. See, you shouldn't have sold that Get Out of Jail Free card to grandma! #games
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    Image of davebg5 davebg5
    11/06/09

    @met2art: Well played, sir. #games
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    Image of Nickuknowit Nickuknowit
    11/06/09

    In reply to 10 Classic Analog Games Defiled By Digital
    Mhm. #games
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    11/06/09

    @Nickuknowit: Somebody take the ball gag off of this man! He's trying to say something witty and relevant! #games
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    11/05/09

    In reply to MPAA Still Trying to Plug Your Analog Hole with Selectable Output Control
    What does any of this matter? I still can't upconvert my dvd's over the component cables Sony swore to me 6 years ago would be the new enduring standard. Like anyone who is tech savvy enough to dub movies off their cable box would actually order an on demand movie anyway, when they can get it for free off of the torrents. #selectableoutputcontrolmpaa
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    Image of uchendunwachukwu uchendunwachukwu
    11/05/09

    In reply to MPAA Still Trying to Plug Your Analog Hole with Selectable Output Control
    A couple of things:

    The MPAA's member companies want to release movies online before they hit theaters, not just DVD. This is something a lot of people have been asking them to do for a while.

    But in order to do that, they want to be able to say "you can only watch this movie through a HDMI or HDCP connection from your cable/VoD box."

    I don't think that is unreasonable. Most HDMI-enabled cable boxes already disable the analog outputs when you are using HDMI and the HDMI handshake fails, and the restriction as currently proposed by the MPAA would only apply when watching movies released before theaters. You aren't going to be place-shifting or time-shifting those movies via Sling or your DVR, because you'll order them on-demand from your Cable company, Amazon or iTunes and watch them right then.

    As for those who may only have Component inputs on their TVs, well time to upgrade bitches. Hell, my old 2004-model CRT HDTV had an HDCP-enabled DVI input, and that was five years ago. And even if you don't want to upgrade, well you can just go see the movie in a theater like normal.

    The only real issue I see with this is the "slippery slope" problem where first it'll just be for pre-theatrical movies, then it'll be for all on-demand titles, then it'll be for everything on cable. Honestly? I can't say I give a crap. By the time that happens, everyone who cares will have upgraded so that it won't affect their viewing habits at all. #selectableoutputcontrolmpaa
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    Image of dragon:ONE dragon:ONE
    11/05/09

    In reply to MPAA Still Trying to Plug Your Analog Hole with Selectable Output Control
    Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless! But back at the war room, they believe you can win a nuclear war. That there can be "acceptable losses."

    Apply that Faulken quote to today:

    Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless! But back at the MPAA legal department, they believe they can win a piracy war. That there can be "acceptable losses." #selectableoutputcontrolmpaa
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    Image of superberg superberg
    11/05/09

    In reply to MPAA Still Trying to Plug Your Analog Hole with Selectable Output Control
    So, when is the MPAA just going to admit they don't want our money? They seem to do everything possible to cut off their revenue streams. #selectableoutputcontrolmpaa
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    Image of CAVEperson CAVEperson
    11/05/09

    In reply to MPAA Still Trying to Plug Your Analog Hole with Selectable Output Control
    Hollywood. Communists. We always knew that it was really true. #selectableoutputcontrolmpaa
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    11/05/09

    @CAVEperson: I think you have Communist and Capitalist backwards. #selectableoutputcontrolmpaa
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    Image of CAVEperson CAVEperson
    11/08/09

    @Xeno: I meant "communist" in the totalitarian, big-brother sense, for which the MPAA is a very good example. What Americans call "communism" has, in practice, little or nothing to do with socialism and is not the antithesis of capitalism. China, for example, is not really a communist country. It's a capitalist country with a single-party, totalitarian government. #selectableoutputcontrolmpaa
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    Image of hbuzzell hbuzzell
    11/05/09

    In reply to MPAA Still Trying to Plug Your Analog Hole with Selectable Output Control
    Another reason that I am glad I don't pay for cable. I don't need anyone else controlling my stuff, I have enough issues controlling it for myself! #selectableoutputcontrolmpaa
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    Image of Identity (Metric) Identity (Metric)
    11/05/09

    In reply to MPAA Still Trying to Plug Your Analog Hole with Selectable Output Control
    Remember, remember the Fifth of November. #selectableoutputcontrolmpaa
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    11/05/09


    @Identity (reclamation): #selectableoutputcontrolmpaa
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    Image of Identity (Metric) Identity (Metric)
    11/05/09

    @malo-ji: Thanks. I had hoped my comment would be a good, timely commentary on this whole MPAA nonsense. #selectableoutputcontrolmpaa
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