From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 27 14:48:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from neo.skynet.be (neo.skynet.be [195.238.2.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891DD37B479 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:48:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (dialup1148.brussels.skynet.be [194.78.232.124]) by neo.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7A06B8A; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:47:42 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@195.238.1.45 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20001127100051.A31319@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20001126143720.I70192@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <20001126153123.J70192@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <20001127100051.A31319@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:44:45 +0100 To: Brooks Davis From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: DVD Players, and Not in a PC Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:00 AM -0800 2000/11/27, Brooks Davis wrote: > This is likely to be true with most low to midrange equipment from > major consumer electronics manufactures, but it's not entierly true. > I know two hardcore audiophiles with hardware investments over $40K who > have merged their home theater and stereo systems, resulting in systems > that are certaintly no worse then either of the seperate systems. Yes, if you spend enough money you can probably get a stereo system that does not suffer from these problems. But those aren't the reviews I read, because I don't make enough money in ten years to pay for that kind of equipment. However, if you want to spend the kind of money that Crist apparently does, then this is certainly an issue I think that he's going to have to at least think about. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message