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• This may be an unpopular opinion but I think new digital album sales that include extras are justified at selling at $10. Older albumms at $4.99 - $7.99 depending on the popularity, current sales volume and past sales volume. Of course, single tracks should be sold at $.99 or below, price varying depending on the same factors as above. In reply to: "How much would you pay for a digital album?"

  January 25, 2009

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• Nice feature set. With the feature wars heating up, it is only a matter of time before apple makes an iMac TV. It will be a built in iMac, and all its features, on one of their gorgeous cinema displays that just happens to be a tv with all the S-Video and HDMI displays you could ever want. Its coming, a full functional tv that just happens to have a full featured computer built in. In reply to: "THX, Internet content grace Panasonic plasmas"

  January 11, 2009

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• As a sailor who is on deployments on various ships throughout each year I can say with absolute certainty that I watch dvd's nearly everyday. My hardest problem is to figure out which portion of my massive collection with me every time I go to the ship. Things like box sets are extremely valuable to me as there are ots of tv shows I never get to see (even the likes of law and order and the sopranos) even though they are on tv everyday virtually. TV is not one of those luxuries we have in the middle of the ocean so I gladly pay for dvd box sets and movies I have seen in some random theater in years and months past. I am a fan of movies and cartoons. DVD's make it possible for lots of people to be entertained who even though they own a tv, never get to really watch tv. My opinion anyway. In reply to: "Do you watch the DVDs and Blu-rays you buy?"

  December 8, 2008

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• I think it is a great injustice to label the Dreamcast a failure, they got out while the getting was good and that little white box consistently turned a profit due to its affordable price and vast library. The Saturn on the other hand was a failure in the US for various reasons. If Sega was even considering getting back into the hardware game they probably would need to heed these words; get a better advertising firm. Whoever handles the Sega brand advertising really sucks ass at it. So many Sega games come out each year for the various systems out there and yet the only game you see consistently advertised is Sonic the Hedgehog. Two, they need to give Sonic a few years off and bring back the original team that made the original game and Sonic Adventure and put them in a room, lock the door and not let them out for 18-24 months until they have a hit Sonic game. Two, they need to take a long hard look into their back catalogue of games released on their previous systems and start reviving some of those well done franchises. I mean Sega was famous for more than just Sonic, Phantasy Star and Shenmue. And lastly, they should partner with a tech firm if making a new system is in the cards and let them develop a machine based on current technology, and it must at least have movie playback and mass storage memory like a hard drive (swappable of course so they can not need multiple SKU's, and make the fact VERY known that the hard drive is swappable). Backwards compatibility to the Dreamcast and Saturn games would be a nice addition but not necessary at all. But it would be nice. I mean, how hard could it be to hire people who know the market, what it wants and how to get things done? And finally, be like nobody else, every game released in Japan should be made for the US and other territories. If they were wise, they would invest in the now defunct Working Designs company, who is well known for releasing Japanese titles translated very well for other territories. An in house translation team would score huge with the vast market of importers and it would crush the system modders that are always blamed for piracy.Thats my two cents anyway. In reply to: "Why Sega should release a new console"

  May 16, 2008

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• They say that in each case they actually downloaded a copy of the file from the defendants computer but can they actually prove that what they downloaded came from the defendants computer? I am not a legal expert but is it not plausible that they downloaded the files once the computers were examined in custody for the trial? I guess that is one of those crazy conspiracy theories of mine. In reply to: "RIAA defendant Jammie Thomas may get new trial"

  May 16, 2008

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• Uh, no. It would be wiser for them to simply partner up with Nintendo and engineer the next generation of cheap, fun, powerful gaming machines. This is all it would take for them to put the Xbox division out of business and ensure Sony gets back to their roots and give the people what they really want. In reply to: "Why Apple should release a game console"

  May 15, 2008

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• Hello Singles
  You know, digital music distribution is the perfect opportunity for artists to release their own music minus big record companies. Think about it, lets take for example Linkin Park, were they to release their songs vie services like iTunes, directly from their own private recording studio, and keep all the profits for themselves and then pay their lawyers, they stand to keep a significant profit. And to think, there will be no record execs with their hand in the pot and persuading them to do things their way ultimately leading to albums that could have been the greatest to just being great. In reply to: "Adios, albums. Hello (again) to singles"

  April 1, 2007

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• Rediculous
  There should be some punishment for child abuse but nearly 20 years for the mere possession of a photograph is truly barbaric. Even if it is the photo pf a child. I am not for collecting nor photographing children but if those guys merely possesed the picture, where is the monster that actually took it? Another thing I am afraid of is this unknown whistle-blower that was the key to the convictions. He has already displayed knowledge and skill hacking into a person's computer, how are we to know he did not place the evidence there himself out of revenge or for profit? It is illegal to have a number of things onyour computer in your posession such as pirated software, pirated music, and government secrets. It is also illegal to hack into a persons computer. I care about the welfare of people, but I care about their privacy more. If the government cannot enter a persons house without a warrant granted for suspicion, then how is it that the information a person who admits to committing a felony by hacking a computer can be trusted? Can the information provided be trusted as accurate? Aren't there laws that state that there must be unquestionable proof? How can you convict a person if the proof in question is coincidental from an admitted criminal.

  August 29, 2006

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