WD TV HD

[shardian]

Will your Xbox play HD divx files, MKV's, and other full 1080p content? If so, then not worth upgrading. Last I checked though, Xbox can't even do any true 720 stuff.

I downloaded  a 720p mkv sample of Planet Earth HD. It looks awesome.
Low quality divx of Robot Chicken looks excellent too.

[ChadTower]

Will your Xbox play HD divx files, MKV's, and other full 1080p content?

No, but on a 32", they don't really mean all that much.  It does upscale everythign to 720p just fine.  I don't think there is a $100 difference between upscaled 720p and 1080p on a 32" lcd.

[shardian]

There is a difference between upscaled to 720p, and actual 720p.

[ChadTower]

There is a difference between upscaled to 720p, and actual 720p.

Yes, there is... but the difference isn't $100.   

[shardian]

Well then get an Amazon CC like me, then it will be free.

[ChadTower]

Well then get an Amazon CC like me, then it will be free.

   I worked ---my bottom--- off to get rid of all the credit cards! 

[shardian]

I have 2:
One for gas ONLY

One for all other purchases that is paid off every month. I lost my wallet when I was 18 or so, with 2 paychecks worth of cash in it. I don't carry cash. Period.

[ChadTower]

One for all other purchases that is paid off every month. I lost my wallet when I was 18 or so, with 2 paychecks worth of cash in it. I don't carry cash. Period.

Heh.  I once lost a wallet with two credit cards in it.  The dude who found it stole a nearly a year's income from me.  I wish it were only 2 paychecks.  I usually carry less than $100 with me so losing my wallet doesn't mean much beyond ID.

[saint]

How'd you find credit cards that didn't cut your liability at $50 each when lost or stolen?

[shardian]

How'd you find credit cards that didn't cut your liability at $50 each when lost or stolen?

Huh?? Kindly reword your sentence so it makes sense. I assume you are saying that your credit card companies charge you $50 for replacing a lost card. If so, that is ridiculous! I've gotten damaged and lost cards replaced happily and quickly by my CC company - at no charge whatsoever.

[ChadTower]

He's talking to me.  That was a long way back before the rules were so consistent and I did get some of it back.  Took me a year of fighting to do it, though, since I hadn't noticed the lost cards for 4-5 weeks while the dude was maxing them out.  I was in college, too, so the income level wasn't that high.  The main problem was that I was highly leveraged at the time, being in college on my own dime, and the resulting credit damage really really really hurt.

Day to day I carry around $80 max and my checking debit card.  The card has a daily max of a few hundred.  No credit cards at all.

[shardian]

Stay on target...stay on target!   ::Kablooey!!::

Back to the original topic:
I just tried to move a bluray rip of Wall-E to my WD Passport drive. Damn WD for having initial setup be fat32!!!

Now I have to find a place to offload 200+ gigs of Norton Ghost backups, and other backup stuff so I can reformat to NTFS.

[Barry Barcrest]

Stay on target...stay on target!   ::Kablooey!!::

Back to the original topic:
I just tried to move a bluray rip of Wall-E to my WD Passport drive. Damn WD for having initial setup be fat32!!!

Now I have to find a place to offload 200+ gigs of Norton Ghost backups, and other backup stuff so I can reformat to NTFS.

Or just convert the partition to NTFS on the fly.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881

I have done that loads of times.

[shardian]

Or just convert the partition to NTFS on the fly.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881

I have done that loads of times.

Worked great! thanks!

Consequently, I also accidentally deleted a whole folder of 80's movies. I don't even know how it happened. Now I have to run some undelete software. 

[shardian]

undelete software worked awesome. This prog works great, is tiny, and is exe from a thumb drive:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

Just in case, now running video checking software.

[Barry Barcrest]

How'd you find credit cards that didn't cut your liability at $50 each when lost or stolen?

Huh?? Kindly reword your sentence so it makes sense. I assume you are saying that your credit card companies charge you $50 for replacing a lost card. If so, that is ridiculous! I've gotten damaged and lost cards replaced happily and quickly by my CC company - at no charge whatsoever.

He was saying you are only liable for the first $50 of fraudulent use of your cards. Not that you pay $50 for replacements, as Chad said this practice wasn't as common before internet fraud kicked in especially if you didn't report the cards lost or stolen quickly enough. I think it was within 24 hours.

[ChadTower]

Uhh... the $50 liability limit has been around since 1968.

Don't know anything about that but it used to be a lot harder to get a credit card company to honor that.  It wasn't always like now where people can call and have a high amount item taken right off the card.  They used to fight over everything.  I remember one of the items I had to fight over was a $75 bar tab in Puerto Rico.  I've never been to Puerto Rico.

[richms]

This is why I will never have a debit card - the banks here in NZ are really pushing them saying that you use your own money like its a good thing. The problem is most of the banks dont do it properly, so when you buy fuel or a pizza where they authorize first and then confirm the charge most of the banks actually end up putting a charge on the account for the authorization amount, then one for the purchase, then reverse the authorization amount, so if you go into OD they get to charge you for it.

Then there is the non reversal of authorizations which then leave you unable to use your money for 2 weeks or so, which they cant help you with.

I cant understand how people are so happy to be using their own money rather then someone elses for no cost, particually with the substantially broken credit card authentication (that is, none) and that people routinely hand over a piece of plastic with a 16 digit wide open way to get to their money whenever buying things...