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Thats why video.google.com exists. Screw HD, screw all the dependencies/requirements/compatabilities. When HD vids comes in one accepted format , and Internet is fast enough to stream it (that is something like 24Mbit minimum) and then ill think about it.
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly the kind of thing that causes domestic violence and collateral mutilations among friends. When my friend B___ invited me over to see a movie yesterday, it turns out he wanted to view the DVD on a projector that didn't have all the parts, using my laptop which didn't yet have a DVD codec, which in turn led to several attempts at installing DirectX 9, which led to a marathon struggle to download and install XP SP2, which led.... scrambling for notes) Let's just say, I fell asleep, this morning rushed in late to work without my laptop, and when I dropped by after work I found it layed out on his kitchen floor in approximately 37 pieces, each marked with a color-coded piece of duct tape and strange heiroglyphics that somehow related to a diagram drawn on the front of his refrigerator using glitter-gloss lip liner. I just stood there for a moment and then left. And this! THIS is what started it!
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