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> The higher cost of the DVD/Blu-ray discs can be amortized over multiple repeat viewings.

For now. Physical media is being phased out. Sony just quitted the blu-ray player business after others also did and Disney already stopped releasing new discs in Australia.

Do they even have server executables? Lots of developers use some hosted service like Amazon Gameworks for that. That code is not theirs to release.

Do you have anything to back up this 3-5 years claim or is this another hollow 'full self driving by the end of next year' promise?

Not as bad as my 1996 Swift ;)

Had a 2005 too, didn't find it too bad but the engine was noisy due to the high rpms at highway speed.

I know. Voodoo 1 and 2 had the ugly VGA passthrough hack. But the principle of reading VRAM from one card and copying it to another would remain the same I think.

I had that setup working back in the day with a Voodoo1 which had the pass-trough construction to take over full screen: only on Linux you could read the completed frames and render them in an X window. It was dog slow though.

While transfers have improved a lot the amount data needed for 4K60 with HDR is about 18Gbps. There's no way that doesn't have an impact.

The Blu-ray spec demands a better coating.

You can't analyze binaries you don't have access to. E.g. code that lives on an application server and is only accessible via an API.

That's the competition I was talking about: SP-404, (used) OctaTrack, MPC live or sample, EP-133 KO 2. All cost about the same or less and do a heck of a lot more.

It was priced very high, even for a boutique musical instrument. There are a lot of samplers on the market on (or even under) that price point and some simple ones that cost a fraction of it.

It's got nothing to do with the licensing, but it used to be 'with enough eyes all bugs are shallow' for code developed in the open.

Now, open code allows anyone with tokens to burn to analyze it for hidden weaknesses. That makes publishing code a risky move unless you've already invested a lot of effort in securing it.

Nice idea, it has 8 data lines, so 8 bits audio should be possible.

"Gas car" companies like Volkswagen or Volvo also have EVs built from the ground up, and have models cheaper than Tesla, most of the time with slightly lesser range or other specs but price/performance wise in the same ballpark.

If anything makes it more expensive it's the habit of certain manufacturers to nickel and dime buyers over every option.

Sucks to be one of the 'relatively sparse' cases then.

Lots of cases are ultimately thrown out due to lack of evidence. Even Kevin Spacey was acquitted.