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Anyone who buys this hunk of Junk needs their head examined. It’s not even Full HD. Blu-Ray won anyway. HDDVD got crushed on black friday.

The fomat war is officially Over. We’d like to thank everyone for coming. You can throw your HDDVD’s in the bin by the door. Drive safely, and have a nice day. Nielsen/VideoScan Numbers ending November 25th (Includes Black Friday) WE: BD-72% HDD-28% YTD: BD-65% HDD-35% SI: BD-62% HDD-38% PS. The Venturer HD-DVD player is NOT Full HD 1080p.

I bought into HD DVD for three reasons.  First, HD DVD has the movies that I like to watch.  Sure, there are a few Blu Rayt exclusives that I would like ( Pirates anyone ) but my HD DVD player does a fine job of upconverting my SD DVDs till all studios release on both formats.  Not to mention I…

Why, oh why are we still talking about storage space being a significant factor for ripping audio?  You can buy an external 500GB drive for about $100-125. Terabyte storage in single drives is here. Megabytes are basically free. I’ll say it again, use WAV as the computer world is still, like it or not, a Microsoft one, plus, for whatever…

That bit of Wikipedia article isn’t particularly relevant for the storage of audio for home use.  If you’re worried about really long term viability then use FLAC.  FLAC is open source and millions of people have data stored in the FLAC format.  There is no more reason for it to disappear than there is for WAV. The space savings aren’t…

No, I meant exactly what I said about ripping to uncompressed WAV, for the reasons listed in the below definition. Lossless formats will come and go as time goes by.  Meanwhile, use an archival medium that best preserves the CD’s original PCM format.--FV “...the most common WAV format contains uncompressed audio in the pulse-code modulation (PCM) format. PCM audio is…

You suggest: “Do yourself a favor—rip and archive your CDs in uncompressed format and then compress as needed for your portable music player.” Compression isn’t the issue.  Lossy or lossless compression is the issue.  A better suggestion (and perhaps what you really meant) would be Do yourself a favor—rip and archive your CDs in lossless format and then transcode as…

It’s nothing personal Dave. You enjoy a spirited debate, and I don’t. Nothing more than that. I’ll debate something if I feel the topic is important to me, but generally don’t enjoy arguing for the sake of arguing. Somehow I get the idea that if we were playing Halo 3, we’d spend half an hour debating what map to play.…

You’ll have to contact your nearest Ritz Camera center. Maybe then will have the information.

Does anyone know how to find the nearest location that offers this?  I can’t find any information on the company’s website. thanks