RE: Brin: On 'Incomprehesibility'

2009-08-31 Thread Julia Thompson
_ From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On Behalf Of medieva...@aol.com Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 8:31 PM To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Brin: On 'Incomprehesibility' 7- It is much easier to read the back of a video box than th

Re: Brin: On 'Incomprehesibility'

2009-08-03 Thread Alberto Monteiro
David Hobby wrote: > > That non-bypassable FBI and/or Interpol warning: This is actually > a loss for DVDs. With VHS, you could ALWAYS fast-forward. Why > aren't there hacks to skip the start-up warnings on DVDs? > Brazilian DVDs don't include this. They replace it with an "educative" movie. O

Re: Brin: On 'Incomprehesibility'

2009-08-01 Thread Dave Land
On Aug 1, 2009, at 5:31 PM, David Brin wrote: Today's DVD's 1- are not universal if you record on "minus" or "plus" mode and many units throw fits, even then 2- fast-forward and reverse are a mess. They are twichy and over and undershoot like mad. 3- menu navigation is often torment 4

Re: Brin: On 'Incomprehesibility'

2009-08-01 Thread Medievalbk
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Re: Brin: On 'Incomprehesibility'

2009-08-01 Thread David Brin
Today's DVD's 1- are not universal if you record on "minus" or "plus" mode and many units throw fits, even then 2- fast-forward and reverse are a mess. They are twichy and over and undershoot like mad. 3- menu navigation is often torment 4- You cannot copy incrementally, onto the end of a s

Re: Brin: On 'Incomprehesibility'

2009-08-01 Thread David Hobby
William T Goodall wrote: On 1 Aug 2009, at 09:12, KZK wrote: > Dr. Brin Wrote: ... > True, copyright piracy is (generally) bad. But the bloody > inconvenience and blithering incomprehensibility of simply using a > modern DVD player to watch a film that you already own - let alone ... I don

Re: Brin: On 'Incomprehesibility'

2009-08-01 Thread William T Goodall
On 1 Aug 2009, at 09:12, KZK wrote: > Dr. Brin Wrote: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2009/07/notion-of-disputation-arenas.html > True, copyright piracy is (generally) bad. But the bloody > inconvenience and blithering incomprehensibility of simply using a > modern DVD player to watch a fil