I sung an arranged version of this poem as part of my high school's chorus group some time in 2001-2003. As far as I can remember, there wasn't any (or many if at all) changes to the Poem's text.
Apparently Eric Whitacre (a choral composer popular with high school choirs around 2001-2003) originally wrote Sleep to the lyrics of “Stopping by…” but was sued by Frost’s estate. He can’t release the original until 2038. https://ericwhitacre.com/music-catalog/sleep
I see a lot of impressions on this post that antenna tv is a dying, but I think there's potential for antenna tv usage to go up.
As a value proposition, you have an initial cost of $50-$300 (depending on what kind of reception you get and what features you want, like DVR), but if you consider basic cable these days being $20/mo it's a nice way to save money on the one thing you can't get fully yet - live news and sports. Also, if we are allowed by the broadcast overlords, you can DVR movies and tv shows and keep a library for yourself without another subscription.
I have an antenna at home but I don't use it primarily because I get poor reception. ATSC 3.0 has been proven to fix this in many cases, so I'm hopeful this could be a great way for many people to save money.
It was already hard enough to kill off NTSC. Now, with ATSC 3.0 they want anyone that's still watching OTA to also need to provide internet access to their receiver so it can give them advertisements?
Have you watched the ads for OTA content? They are all geared towards geriatrics. That's because almost nobody under 60 is watching OTA (except maybe exceptions like you and I that don't mind older TV shows and are willing to DVR it).
So, for a media format primarily consumed by geriatric people the new standard proposes they now need a functional internet connection hooked up just to watch M*A*S*H. The previous standards just needed a coax cable hooked up to an antenna.
I love that ATSC 3.0 uses better codecs. But, it's really dumb that they added the internet backend requirement. The entire point of OTA is you don't want to stream stuff over the internet.
>the one thing you can't get fully yet - live news and sports.
i'm not sure how many people really care much about the live news side of it. sports are definitely a big one right now, but that's only a licencing and rights problem, not a technology problem. as TV dies, those rights will get bought up by people who want to put sports online. Your $300 investment is only saving you money for as long as those sports are actually available on broadcast TV
> but that's only a licencing and rights problem, not a technology problem
A lot of good points here, but I would still prefer antenna TV to internet live sports because of the buffering. I feel like when I have to resort to using an internet live stream I'm not getting it truly live.
> As a value proposition, you have an initial cost of $50-$300
You can get a cheap antenna off Amazon for $10-$20, and even my budget-oriented TCL Roku TV has a built-in tuner. In cities, this works pretty well! I don’t think many young people realize this is just available to everyone basically for free.
Anything that calls itself a "TV" has to have a tuner.
I bought my current Vizio in the period where they were omitting them and selling as "displays" but they've since switched back to just being TVs again and including the tuners.
Not in my city. You have to be lucky enough to live in a neighborhood where the signal actually reaches. My decidedly not scientific observation is that's about 75% of the city.
This is the change.org petition, created by Lon.tv's Lon Seidman to stop ATSC 3.0 DRM. This will be hand delivered by Lon if it receives 25k signatures. Related YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkQdDZYYeQA
I'm hoping this is okay to post here.
Interestingly enough, they actually did release a version on DVD with full MPEG-2 video (more info here: https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/13753), but it was an extremely special edition that I think only worked with hardware MPEG-2 decoders. Nowadays, you can play this version with software decoding using some community hacks, but the GOG.com version has the high quality video and has done all the work for you.
EDIT: I was partially wrong. After reading the article, there was a version that was essentially all of the CDs' data on one DVD, but that was replaced with the version I mentioned.
I had that 2nd DVD (have? will have to dig around in the shed). I played the daylights out of the earlier Wing Commander games but IV was...underwhelming despite all the hullabaloo about it being some kind of major breakthrough in interactive fiction.
It probably came bundled with a creative DVD set that included an MPEG decoding card and required some kind of video passthrough.
I tried to learn how to drive a 200cc gas scooter so I could save money versus buying a new car, with disastrous effect (broke my leg and arm). So now, what I really want is something in tricycle form, but at a $3k price point. Maybe an electric trike that can go on a town road lane (maybe with a top speed of 40-50mph), and has a roof attachment to protect the driver from rain, etc. Getting the exercise from pedaling would be an added benefit.
If you broke your limbs riding a 200cc scooter, a 40mph tricycle would kill you. There's a reason this thing is limited to 15mph, it's extremely likely to flip and land on top of you.
What's interesting about this is that they are using Microsoft's Flight Simulator X's codebase, and I think plugins that work in FSX will work in Prepar3D.
It's veeeeery hit and miss as to if an FSX add-on will work with P3D. One reason is that FSX is 32-bit only whereas P3D is 64-bit as of v4 - they've changed a lot of stuff.
