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The first shot is from the movie Red from the Three Colors trilogy.

Yes, HD-DVD and Blu-ray support the same codecs: MPEG-2, AVC and VC-1.

I was bored. I suck at photomanip though... haven't done that stuff in years.

A 1080p capable TV set should be able to deinterlace film-based material from 1080i -> 1080p, and display all pixels correctly. Aren't the existing matrixed Dolby EX tracks 6.1 instead of 7.1? With an additional "center surround channel" instead of 4 surrounds. Don't know, I'm perfectly happy...

Yes. But that's not the system the OP's problem describes.

Umm, I'm pretty sure we disagree about the problem. ;) My position is that the conveyor can only apply a force on the plane through friction by doubling the speed of the spinning wheels, and that this is not enough to counter the thrust of the engines.

giantbunny, I agree that the wording of the problem is probably 90% of the confusion here. My understanding of it was that if we stipulate at any time that the plane is moving at 10mph relative to an absolute orange grove by the runway, the conveyor is running at 10mph in the opposite...

The speed of spinning wheels of a stationary airplane on a 10mph treadmill: 10mph. The speed of spinning wheels of a plane moving at 10mph on a stationary surface: 10mph. The speed of spinning wheels of a plane moving at 10mph (relative to absolute ground) on a 10mph treadmill: 20mph.

Obviously, the conveyor will need to be as long as a regular runway (slightly longer in fact because of the added friction), but it will take off.

Sounds like a presentation projector, do you have the exact model or contrast specs? What would you be using it for? It might not be optimal for home theater use, but of course at that price it should be a steal...

I also propose manually typing, should be faster since you don't have to release the discs from their clamps, slapping them in, waiting for it to spin up, spin down, etc... Actually did this once for my collection of ~100, then I lost the db. :/

FredPixel, it's Rob D - Clubbed to Death from the Matrix soundtrack...

My Region 2 PAL version is Anamorphic. 576 lines of glorious resolution... minus whatever's lost in the 2.35 letterboxing. It is, however, a single-layer flipper disc. I never bother watching the second half, since the movie goes to hell thereabouts anyway. :)

I think we're getting a rare insight into modern Hollywood here...

No, it was rock salt.