Tyrannical on 12 February 2009
Lafiel said:
first generation Blu-Rays used the outdated MPEG2 codec, which is why they looked worse than the HD DVD discs which used VC1 from the beginning, while BRs began to be encoded with VC1 2-3month after the first BRs released |
I had forgotten that Microsoft's VC1 codec saved blu-ray.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
