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No, that would have been BBN that invented the internet with funding from the ARPA (later DARPA). It was originally 4 nodes between a few colleges. This grew over time into the internet.

It helps when you make a pithy comment such as this to do so to someone that's clueless about the beginnings of the internet.

Come on John that was a joke, you know we all love you man and that cover you sold me is still good.If someone tells me I invented the Interne I'll take the credit for it.. Thanks for the reserach though.

No you both wrong, Mr Meridian invented the Internet .Come Mr. Meridian take the credit .

Well, one doesn't like to blow one's own trumpet, but since you insist....

Cheers

George

Just a Fan:

Yes, I know it was a joke, but the exchange was going towards the hostile.

I've known about the history of the internet for a long time.

Try "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" -- it came out in 1996 and it's a pretty good read.

Cheers,

That's why you're my hero.I am not talking about the Hero on NBCTV.

Daniel,
My reaction is to say lets use a little imagination. Just look where things are going:

* better compression
* more broadband adoption
* larger hard drive capacity

etc. You know the arguments.

I'm not necessarily saying its going to be Apple, though they seem well positioned- and I have been using the computers since I was a youngster. Unlike some Mac fans, I dont *hate* non-Apple things. As a matter of fact, I find the best mouse comes from microsoft!

I guess we'll just have to sit back and enjoy the show.

Ken,
I agree- its not the best comparison ever, but not a bad milestone and the fact that its only one studio actually shows the strength of the argument. Imagine the sales differential if it was more than one studio.

Mark,
Your concerns about privacy are well founded. The only way I have found that is truly safe is to disconnect from everything. Even your automobile stores data on you now... I love my Kscape but they now know what movies I like, and by inference which ones I dont and how often I watch, and when. Btw- your cable company already knows this...

John,
I share your interpretation of Mr. Stuart's comments. I think he is right: make the most of what you have rather than focus on wishful thinking. It is a practical approach which I think is the only realistic approach.

Javier,
I cannot answer your question regarding audio quality because I am not using my Kscape for audio. Its a video server only in my system. I built my own audio server with a mac G5 tower. It works easily because I use my projector for navigation. But, if I may engage in supposition: the video quality on the Kscape video player is outstanding. The image quality might be better using the digital output to a cutting edge video processor, but, even with 480P component out, the deinterlacing is hard to beat and even with my plasma's A-D stage + scaling the image is very very good. As a matter of fact, you know the lines you often see on a 2.35:1 movie at the top and bottom of the image, they are almost eliminated with the K player. The Meridian 800 I have been using for years now has a very clean output and this looks cleaner to my eyes and sharper. I would expect that since their audio stage works off an uncompressed copy of the CD data, that plugging into a top processor would produce very good results and if you were using their analog out, I suspect they have at least good and probably very good D-A. In short, I think you will be pleased. Maybe you can tweak this to be even better, but my experience with the Kaleidescape is similar to with Meridian: its first class and they are not going to let you down.

best regards,
Jerry

WOWOWOWOWOWOW

ITS HERE!!! THE HDDVD PLAYER JUST ARRIVED AT MY OFFICE!!!!

WHOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I feel like a little kid.

Mark,
I cannot thank you enough, I'm excited to give it a try when I get home.

Ken, thank you for coordinating this. I will report my findings back later. I have Apollo 13 and Serenity ready to go.

best regards,
Jerry

Congrats and welcome to the club. I wish you had tried the BD first, but you will soon.

What makes BD better? Btw- I really think the "BD" designation is not so good, it reminds me of commercials we see during the news for "ED"... I prefer to think of it as "BRD".

best regards,
Jerry

More storage space, Major studios support "the likes of Sony, Walt Disney" a major platform for a very popular game such as PS3 and soon 1.3 HDMI support which PS3 already has and coming soon support for HD DD and DTS lossless sound. Why they call BD?.. I am not sure why, but I like BR better.

whooo Hooo!!
Let the good times roll Jerry!!
The first one to arrive here, I will forward to VK across the pond;
The next one gets the acid test with Phantom Of The Opera...!

Can't wait...!

ken