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    Image of EBone EBone
    10/12/09

    In reply to 4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film
    If you order the two-disc DVD edition (not the BluRay) you get a digital copy of the movie as well. Not on a nifty flash drive though.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/12/09

    In reply to 4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film
    The insignia needs to be in pin or tie tack format so I can walk around clicking it and telling Scotty to beam me up.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    10/12/09

    In reply to 4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film
    Any idea what the series number is?
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    10/12/09

    In reply to 4GB Star Trek Flash Drive Comes Loaded With The New Film
    Why exactly would they want the DVD stored off a 4gb flash drive? The compression would murder the quality.
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    10/12/09

    @bagellord:
    DVDs store 4.8gb...and a lot of it is used up by menus and other crap. I guess there are dual layer DVDs but most of the time that is not used to give you better picture quality.

    I wouldn't be surprised if it was Full MPEG-2 "quality."

    It'd be nice if they gave us the HD version on a larger drive...I don't understand why in this day and age I can't get HD movies sans Blu-Ray...the HD content on iTunes isn't actually HD.
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    10/12/09

    @TheCrudMan: When I back up dvd's with DVDShrink I back them up with no compression and end up with nearly 8gb video ts rips.
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    Image of trickflip1 trickflip1
    10/12/09

    @bagellord: That's because you're backing up the whole Image of the DVD, not just ripped videos.

    Use Handbrake and rip a DVD's main Title (the movie alone) and check out the size difference. Rip it at full DVD resolution even.

    Of course if you don't have a multi-core processor, it may take quite a long while to do it.
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    Image of Xagest Xagest
    10/12/09

    @bagellord: Fine point, most DVDs these days are dual layered.
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    10/12/09

    @trickflip1: Except it's not an image of the dvd like an ISO. It's the video_ts folder. I also like having the menu structure so that if my disk is messed up I can easily create a new one.

    PS - not sure where the processor thing came from but I have a 3.0GHz Core 2 Duo in my iMac. The bottleneck for me copying a movie is the crappily slow DVD drive.
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    Image of trickflip1 trickflip1
    10/13/09

    @bagellord: Oh, I was just simply saying if you had the time to test it, that it might take longer if you don't have a multi-core processor.

    I, for example, am still using a Prescott P4 in my laptop as well as my current desktop setup. So it naturally takes me a long, long time to rip a DVD.

    My mentioning of the file size was merely to state that it is possible for them to have a full DVD-quality video on the flash drive, given that the file size would be no larger than 2.2GB.

    All I was saying is that I'm sure the flash drive does not contain the DVD iso. That I was sure it just contains a DVD quality "rip" of the movie itself, maybe a few special features as separate videos.

    However, after someone saying they read the video will only take up 1.0 GB, it sounds like it will be less than DVD quality, or a "digital" copy like so many movies come with now.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    06/24/09

    In reply to Naildrive Hits 16GB
    Perfect for netbooks - leave it plugged in 99% of the time and just use it when you want to transfer media from the home PC over. Anyone know what kind of speed it gets?
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    Image of Lukasz Fabis Lukasz Fabis
    06/24/09

    In reply to Naildrive Hits 16GB
    Now if only they could get rid of the casing, leaving something about as thick as a stick of gum.


    The USB spec should be revised so that manufacturers could start including ports that only accept low profile plugs.

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    06/24/09

    @Lukasz Fabis:


    in lieu of those that can accept all? that's a terrible idea, sir.

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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    06/24/09

    In reply to Naildrive Hits 16GB
    Dammit. Giz broke the Internet again.
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    Image of Slyd3z Slyd3z
    06/24/09

    In reply to Naildrive Hits 16GB
    Wow, 10 posts so far and no Sparta references? You guys are slipping...
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/24/09

    @Slyd3z: You see old friend, we've brought more memes than you did.
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    Image of Solaseria Solaseria
    06/24/09

    In reply to Naildrive Hits 16GB
    Couple one or two of these with an Optiplex 260, and they'll practically be swallowed by the brainchild of Dell's mentally handicapped designers.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    06/24/09

    @Solaseria: Which 260?
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    Image of Yanguang Yanguang
    06/24/09

    In reply to Naildrive Hits 16GB
    "hey, tell the boys down at the R&D department the boss says make something that's easily lost, so they'll keep coming back to us to buy new ones"
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    Image of Tvhargon Tvhargon
    06/24/09

    @Yanguang: You're completely right. I had 3 of those tiny sony ones, and I lost all of them.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    06/24/09

    @Tvhargon: Might say something about the user, not just the device...
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/05/09

    In reply to Mini MPC 2000XL Sampler and SP1200 Drum Machine USB Flash Drives
    What does an angry butcher do?


    Beats his meat!


    What does this have to do with the post?


    Has the word "his" in it.

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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    05/05/09

    In reply to Mini MPC 2000XL Sampler and SP1200 Drum Machine USB Flash Drives
    .....I thought that was a Space 1999 Comlock at first glance...


    it really has the 1999 styling to it..


    [www.monstersinmotion.com] <---see what I mean?

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    Image of roflwaffles is attempting hipster irony roflwaffles is attempting hipster irony
    05/05/09

    In reply to Mini MPC 2000XL Sampler and SP1200 Drum Machine USB Flash Drives
    for 40$ i would hope they actually work like the real things.

    Plus, making hip hop music what it is today might not be such a good thing.

    Auto-tune anyone?
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/05/09

    @roflwaffles learned to update his screen name: The SP1200 and MPC series were born before autotune was even conceived.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    02/17/09

    In reply to The Green Man USB Drive Can Do Impossible Yoga Poses
    perfect for any Sunny fan.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/17/09

    In reply to The Green Man USB Drive Can Do Impossible Yoga Poses
    The point of yoga.. is to calm the mind.. and find your.. nirvana.


    I found my nirvana!

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