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    Worry Not, Fight Club Has Not Turned Into a Horrible Romantic Comedy

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    Image of jayhawk11 is a trap star, sort of. jayhawk11 is a trap star, sort of.
    11/20/09

    In reply to Worry Not, Fight Club Has Not Turned Into a Horrible Romantic Comedy
    Something tells me the irony of Fight Club being released on perhaps the most consumer unfriendly format ever devised is not lost on Chuck Palahniuk.
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    Image of ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
    11/20/09

    @jayhawk11 loves sammiches: Im sorry why is it consumer unfriendly? more so than a dvd?
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    Image of jayhawk11 is a trap star, sort of. jayhawk11 is a trap star, sort of.
    11/20/09

    @oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...: ICT? HDMI? HDCP?

    Should I continue throwing out acronyms or is that good enough?

    #tips
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    jayhawk11 is a trap star, sort of. was starred jayhawk11 is a trap star, sort of. was unstarred
    Image of ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
    11/20/09

    @jayhawk11 loves sammiches: hrmm I guess I never thought of it that way. If you have an HDTV, why would you not use HDMI. If you have an HD TV why would it not be HDCP compliant.. I have never heard of any one having consumer unfriendly issues with bluray. If you the hardware, there are no problems. RTFM

    #tips
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    Image of Chimaera Chimaera
    11/21/09

    @oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...: HDTV's and HD displays pre-date both HDMI and HDCP. You have sets with only component video. You have thousands of sets with DVI connections that won't pass HDCP. You have thousands of sets with HDCP compliant DVI connections, but using a HDMI-to-DVI converter breaks the HDCP chain.

    It's an additional hassle that didn't need to be.

    [www.avrev.com]
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    Image of Laughin_Caulk Laughin_Caulk
    11/21/09

    @jayhawk11 loves sammiches: Whining about "Consumer Friendliness" on a blog post about Fight Club gives Palahnuik a nice chubby. Next up: a commenter on Martha Stewart's blog bringing up "Eco-Friendliness"
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    jayhawk11 is a trap star, sort of. promoted this comment Laughin_Caulk was starred Laughin_Caulk was unstarred
    Image of jayhawk11 is a trap star, sort of. jayhawk11 is a trap star, sort of.
    11/21/09

    @Laughin_Caulk: Perhaps you misunderstood. Being "consumer unfriendly" generally means "Corporate-friendly". Something which Jack's id most certainly does not approve of.
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    Edited by jayhawk11 is a trap star, sort of. at 11/21/09 3:11 AM jayhawk11 is a trap star, sort of. was starred jayhawk11 is a trap star, sort of. was unstarred
    Image of ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
    11/21/09

    @Chimaera: Im sorry but if you're buying a bluray player RTFM dont assume your 500lb projection HD TV that supports 720i is going to be up to snuff.

    #tips
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    Image of Chimaera Chimaera
    01:18 AM

    @oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...: It's not about reading the manual. It's about companies creating environment where every customer is looked upon as if they were a thief.

    #tips
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/20/09

    In reply to Worry Not, Fight Club Has Not Turned Into a Horrible Romantic Comedy
    Gahhh!! Kill it!!
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    Image of Poop Cooper Poop Cooper
    11/19/09

    In reply to The Epic HDTV Buyer's Guide Flowchart
    This essentially chronicles the 3 weeks leading up to my own HDTV purchase minus crying in the fetal position during my shower (also known as "my thinking spot.")
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    Image of Marcelo Marcelo
    11/19/09

    In reply to The Epic HDTV Buyer's Guide Flowchart
    tl;dr
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment Marcelo was starred Marcelo was unstarred
    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    11/19/09

    In reply to The Epic HDTV Buyer's Guide Flowchart
    Aw no credit to your boy @xzackly001: for posting in the other article?

    [gizmodo.com]
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    Edited by valkilmerisawful at 11/19/09 7:33 PM valkilmerisawful was starred valkilmerisawful was unstarred
    Image of RT100 RT100
    11/19/09

    @valkilmerisawful: really! Come on giz, I saw it in his comment first...give credit where it's due
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/19/09

    In reply to The Epic HDTV Buyer's Guide Flowchart

    I feel like I just watched Labyrinth again, only more confusing and with less acid.
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    Image of MarcusMaximus MarcusMaximus
    11/19/09

    @Nathan Obbards: The labyrinth isn't that confusing... except the part where she gets put in a bubble and shows up at a costume party for no apparent reason. What the hell was going on there?
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment MarcusMaximus was starred MarcusMaximus was unstarred
    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/19/09

    @MarcusMaximus: Well, it's confusing in a different way, like is David Bowie a man or a woman? Is he a pedophile? What is up with those guys pulling body parts off and flying heads? Did I take shrooms or drop acid and didn't know it? Was that beer really that strong? I'm oddly aroused, why? Is that a cucumber in his pants? Does he have nipple antennae to communicate out in space?

    While the story is fairly straight forward, it is very confusing.
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    Nathan Obbards was starred Nathan Obbards was unstarred
    Image of MarcusMaximus MarcusMaximus
    11/19/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Granted. But my question still stands, what the hell was going on in that scene? And why did she wake up in a landfill?
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    MarcusMaximus was starred MarcusMaximus was unstarred
    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    11/19/09

    @MarcusMaximus: Nobody really knows... except Jim Henson. Nevermind the url title; I'm not sending you out to some freaky garbage... if you visit and search [www.sweatpantserection.com], you will find an over-the-top third-party review and commentary from a hilarious girl that had my rollin'. I wanted to post the link directly, but it's fair to say that the url (title) is NSFW and I don't feel like having to explain to the IT department why the "sweatpantserection" website is not what it sounds like. I suggest you all do the same.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/19/09

    @MarcusMaximus: That was everybody's favourire lost things. The next range over was The Mountain of Lost Socks.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/19/09

    @valkilmerisawful: I'm tossing that DVD in when I get home tomorrow.
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    AmishJohn was starred AmishJohn was unstarred
    Image of nogudio nogudio
    11/19/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Do you smoke grass up in space, Bowie? Or do you smoke Astro-Turf?!
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment nogudio was starred nogudio was unstarred
    Image of Bizdady Bizdady
    11/19/09

    In reply to The Epic HDTV Buyer's Guide Flowchart
    I got lost somewhere in there...
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment Bizdady was starred Bizdady was unstarred
    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    11/16/09

    In reply to Sezmi Takes Big Step Towards Delivering All-in-One TV Solution
    Does this thing use CableCard? #sezmi
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    Canoehead was starred Canoehead was unstarred
    Image of Hobolicious Hobolicious
    11/09/09

    In reply to Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality
    I love that you have to be 6.5 feet tall to view that tiny screen properly. I can see it now:

    "Honey, why are you standing on a stool in the cold watching the game on that tiny screen?"

    "BECAUSE I CAN WATCH THE GAME AND KEEP MY JUNK TOASTY AT THE SAME TIME!" #poseidon
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    Hobolicious was starred Hobolicious was unstarred
    Image of tomsomething tomsomething
    11/09/09

    @Hobolicious: Not necessarily. You could sit really far back. Or you could could tilt the unit down by leaning it against some cardboard boxes or a pile of hay. #poseidon
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    Hobolicious promoted this comment tomsomething was starred tomsomething was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/09/09

    In reply to Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality
    What an unfortunately irrelevant name for what it does.

    They should've put a Google panorama-cam on top of it instead. #poseidon
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Monty Monty
    11/09/09

    In reply to Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality
    Apparently the tester at Chillchasers is Mephistopheles or they might have thought to put the media player on the other side away from the trap door to Hades. I just hope it has a nice back and forth motion so folks can move from side to side to follow the show they are watching -- great exercise, after all, and the heater makes it an outdoor sauna.

    Um, correct my stupidity here, but isn't a standard plug in the United States in the 110v range, and not a "standard" 220v option (which has multiple plugs available in this country, as I recall)?

    Fortunately the nice green color makes up for all of the other faults.
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    Edited by Monty at 11/09/09 7:02 PM Monty was starred Monty was unstarred
    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/09/09

    @Monty: It looks to be a UK product. #poseidon
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    Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of Monty Monty
    11/09/09

    @Shamoononon: Thanks for the tip - should have know it was those damn limey's.

    Hey, the heater on this thing might work for frying the hair off of the legs instead of shaving. Just a thought for you. #poseidon
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    Monty was starred Monty was unstarred
    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    11/09/09

    @Monty: I'll take that into consideration. #poseidon
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    Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of Curves Curves
    11/09/09

    In reply to Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality
    I dont "get" patio heaters. Put on a frigging sweater or go in the house, dont add your 2 cents to global warming. #poseidon
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    11/09/09

    @Curves: They create a pleasant sensation, akin to sitting around a fire. I agree that it's not the most energy-efficient way to be warm, though. #poseidon
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    Image of Muzzled Muzzled
    11/09/09

    In reply to Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality
    I am a LOT more impressed by the floating umbrella #poseidon
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    Shamoononon: I shave my legs. promoted this comment Muzzled was starred Muzzled was unstarred
    Image of The Lab The Lab
    11/09/09

    In reply to Giant Patio Heaters With Tiny Media Players Are Finally a Reality
    Hilariously tiny screen aside, this thing has some major issues. First, from a global carbon footprint point of view it is much more efficient to burn gas to produce heat than coal to produce electricity and electricity to produce heat. (before you jump on the coal thing, look it up, that's where most electricity comes from) Secondly, the design of most patio heaters features a reflector that reflects heat downward instead of letting it drift away. Shouldn't have gotten rid of that. Finally, the shiny green looks great in the renders, probably much less so in meatspace. That brushed steel of most heaters is more classy, imho. #poseidon
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    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    11/06/09

    In reply to 802.11n Wi-Fi Adapter For Tivo Lands At The FCC
    I use an N dedicated wireless bridge (shares with a couple of other devices) and find that an HD television show transfers slightly faster than play speed. What is the usual performance with the G adapter? #wifi
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    Image of Accelerata Accelerata
    11/06/09

    @Canoehead: i use a wireless G bridge shared with other devices and i don't have any trouble streaming The Office in HD. admittedly the other devices are not usually active, but the wireless network is running mixed mode and has some active N devices on it too. was thinking about upgrading the N-bridge, but i'd still need a legacy base station for Wii and PS3 :-p #wifi
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    Canoehead promoted this comment Accelerata was starred Accelerata was unstarred
    Image of Canoehead Canoehead
    11/06/09

    @Accelerata: I put in the bridge to feed the Tivo, Popcorn Hour and Wii in the bedroom. It works pretty well, and was a lot cheaper than a proper cable run. #wifi
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