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I've bought an "LG BH16NS55" drive a few years ago and flashed the firmware with BD ripping enabled in Region 0 (= Not Set). This provides raw access to the disc - but it's still encrypted.
Luckily, public AACS2 key lists update faster than I decide to buy a new BD, so they are usually already covered when I need them.
Never needed to set a region for DVD or BD on this drive.
Constantine is a DC character with superhuman abilities
Favorite car chase scene:
Mad Max II
Best getaway driver:
The driver, Drive (2011)
Do you mean an official "Project 4K77"?
Don't know if they need to. Project 4K77 exists for anyone who wants to get the idea of how it looked like, what the award-winning effects were like, how grainy, washed-out, dirty and scratched films really were in the 70's, ...
Historically interesting, but not the best viewing experience. To me, watching 4K77 partially redeemed Lucas' efforts to make it more accessible to younger generations. I can see why they applied DNR, corrected colors and renewed some effects / matte paintings.
What I'd like to see would be a proper (and faithful - looking at you, Greedo!) restoration. Like what Sony did to Lawrence of Arabia, it looks stunning in 4k.
Depends on the vaccine, I doubt that the kids will be fully covered up to July 9th - and they'd be pissed if we went to theater for an MCU movie without them. Remember that it takes a few weeks after the last injection to develop a reasonable amount of antibodies.
It's likely that younger people will get a higher percentage of AZ, meaning 8-12 weeks between injections.
July 9th is in 15 weeks.
Ben Stiller - Mystery Men
Bradley Cooper - Guardians of the Galaxy (voice)
Chuck Norris
Dissociative trends and escapism are usually an indicator for growing (subjective(!)) insecurity.
When she's carrying something in her hands, it's not sexist.
(no order)
Duck Hunt
Double Dragon
Dr. Mario
Bubble Bobble
Super Mario Bros 3
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sure it is.
the two (or more) people in the ring (the referee is part of the act too) do a team performance and we are the judges by tuning in and watching the ads. one person jumps, the other catches....
they compete for popularity against the previous and the next matches of the evening.
the winning team gets the bigger storyline in the season. it does not matter who owns which belt, they are macguffins.
there is no solo performance in wrestling, it has to be synchronized or doesn't work.
For DVD VOBs, libdvdcss unwraps CSS encryptions on the fly.
BD is a different kind of beast, often tamed in the drive's firmware.
It's not a martial art, more like figure skating, synchronized swimming or gymnastics, kind of a ballet-like team performance.
It's a media center software, formerly known as XBMC ("XBox Media Center"). Originally, it was a media center made for the first XBox. Nowadays, it runs virtually everywhere.
Besides its origins as a media center, it has evolved into a generic IPTV client, running almost everywhere. For example:
Instead of going for a sat multiswitch and extra coaxial cables, I've simply connected one Unicable line per LNB (1 LNB per position) to a central Intel NUC, equipped with 16 FBC tuners. All tuning, user management, maintenance, decryption and transcoding (if needed) is configured centrally in the web frontends of "tvheadend" and OSCam on this NUC. Kodi also is a tvheadend client. Now, clients only need a network connection and kodi - either running natively on the TV or by adding a capable dongle (FireTV, Raspberry Pi).
Using OpenVPN, I always have access to all channels like at home, as long as there's enough bandwidth for the lowest transcoding profile. I actually hate hotel room TVs and prefer kodi on my notebook.
But this is not exactly why it's so popular among younger people, they're not that much into linear TV. What they care more about is the "Video Add-ons" category. It's a type of plugin to conveniently access web streaming contents. All plugins you'll find in official repositories are legal. It's the 3rd party repos where the "Top 10 Addons of the month" come from.
Another legal example: Watching Disney+, Netflix and PrimeVideo on a recent Enigma2 receiver. Natively, most of them don't support it. Using kodi on such receivers, you can install Video Add-ons and use them - limited to 720p (it's actually a widewine restriction).
It was the highest phone bill and still using direct phone connections instead of TCP or IPX. I don't remember an earlier addictive pvp online-game. But we already played the demo in late summer of 1993 (it was kind of a hype). The full version took another year to become practically available here.
The early times in the 80's were on my Atari with the same modem, but with less games - ST versions were really hard to come by. There was a DOOM clone later on in the 90's, but I've never got it.
So, I played it on an x86 notebook without colors.
I had the acoustic coupler for business needs - mainly for sending fax from my Atari STe and for BTX. But if you knew the dial-in numbers, the only restriction was the expensive area code and that you couldn't receive phone calls while being online.
Some games supported directly calling each other via modem. I remember the phone bill caused by the DOOM Demo which ran on my first privately owned notebook, an IBM PS/2 Note I still own.
It was a monochrome screen, pretty lousy by today's standards. Didn't keep me from spending a lot of time with it.
2400 kbps acoustic coupler AND no special tariffs. Every minute was part of a far-distance call. I usually dialed in to a university BBS system and looked up their proxied/mirrored contents. Downloads were using the xlink or sealink protocol and regularly broken. E-Mail was a terminal application on the BBS host.
Some hardware vendors had special dial-in numbers for BIOS/EEPROM updates.
90's free news servers still had alt.bin indexed.
I'd pick up my phone, hold it horizontally and start recording a video.
Surely gets some views on YT.
And I'd possibly grab some charcoal tablets, just in case I've ingested a hallucinogen and it's not yet fully metabolized.
Nah, no problem. And we had dial-in internet in the late 80's.... not fast enough for streaming services, but sufficient if you were stuck in an adventure game to get a hint (I'd still play "Sam and Max" without help).
During the 80's, the ether was full anyway, stations from behind the Iron Curtain were totally overpowered. When picking up the phone, I've heard the mumbling of a deep Russian voice until I started to dial. The Czech sci-fi shows were memorable. Didn't understand a word, but they looked charmingly handcrafted and had catchy songs.
Then came the 90s, VHS and Video200(!) everywhere, private movie libraries growing and growing. Analogue encryption schemes on satellites were commonly broken (using a Commodore 64 and a bit of soldering).