Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Anyone else moved to an e-reader ?

Via firmware updates they removed the Linux OS option. In order to ever update again (ie to play new games or BR) you were forced to lose this functionality.

I am actually speaking of Cinavia, or whatever it's called. If you stream a movie from your PC that is tied to Sony, it has code built into the soundtrack that the PS3 (and certain co-operating BR players) picks up. It lets you watch for about 10 minutes or so, then it informs you that you did not pay for the movie and it turns off the sound or kills the play altogether.

Yeah, this type of flag is what kept me from Blu-Ray for as long as it did. The very idea that the studios can physically turn off my hardware is galling. I eventually caved in as I have no moral strength and didn't want my 80s to go to waste.

Good thing there are alternatives. Really, what did you expect Sony to do?

Considering they once added a trojan (there can be no other word for an undocumented, stealth program) into all their CD so that as soon as you popped it into a PC to make a copy...... I should have expected nothing less.

I don't mind buying or renting the BRs I intend to watch but I also want to watch them streamed from my HTPC so I can store away the disk copy. I'm reading now that this should still work as long as you ensure the HD audio track does not get modified in any way or form so I will go back and double check my ripping process.

If not, this puts us back to when Sony (and others of course) didn't feel we should copy music to our MP3 players. Imagine if they tried to prevent that now. Not too many portable Walkman's for sale out there anymore.

Hey I rarely rant. Give me this one. LOL!!!!

That reminds me of a lawsuit a couple of years back that nobody talks about filed by a small French firm that found Sony had knowingly pirated its software. Subsequent investigation found that 60% of the software run at Sony's head office was pirated.

Those who shout loudest...

Just downloaded my first library book to my Kindle after using my Nook for months. I gotta say that I DO like the Kindle a bit more.

I got a Kindle Fire, but so far I haven't done much with it. I didn't get it for reading books, since I think I'd rather have one of the other models for that. I was hoping to use the Fire as a nice little music player for work or wherever, but unfortunately my Android app of choice, PowerAmp, isn't available in the Amazon app store. There don't seem to be any options for playing FLAC files yet, and I'd rather not resort to making keeping MP3s alongside my FLACs. Here's hoping a decent music player app shows up sooner rather than later.

Oh, yeah, and I was wondering why web content was taking so long to load when my Android phone could pull the same content so much faster. I finally deselected the "Accelerate page loading" box in the settings, and now it loads pages this year. So much for Amazon Silk's split browser architecture so far.

I was perusing the variety of Kindles, last evening. I have what they now call the "Kindle Keyboard" which is a fancy name for the older model. I really like it.

But, if I were going to replace it, for reading books only, I would go with the inexpensive model ($79 with ads; $109 without the ads). It's smaller, while maintaining the same screen size (6"), and lighter (5.98 vs. 8.5 ounces).

I already have a tablet so I don't need all the other goodies available on the Fire. However, if I didn't have a tablet, the Fire would be a VERY attractive option.