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Originally Posted by RUB2
It's time to upgrade when you start begging on a forum like this for someone to provide backwards compatible stuff for you.
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Originally Posted by RUB2
I have the newest, best and most expensive computer & hardware on the market, so I can watch stuff in the absolute BEST quality EVER imagined. And if you either can't or won't spend your hard-earned money to upgrade the equipment you have to a level comparable to mine, equipment that is otherwise perfectly suitable in every other context, in order to enjoy the experience like I enjoy, then fuck you for being backwards because I ain't helping you and nobody else should either.
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Love you too, buddy.
I particularly take umbrage at the suggestion that 720 in general and my computer in particular are "backwards compatible". I used to have a PS3 that was backwards compatible, which meant it could play PS2 & original Playstation games, whereas any other PS3 couldn't play those. My computer DOES play these 1080 videos, I just have to slow the playtime down considerably in order to do it (this actually works to my benefit more often than not since it gives me more time to "savor" the experience, if you know what I'm talking about).
But if we look at this using my metaphor, you have a PS3 & I have a PS2. My PS2 WILL play PS3 games, it just won't be as seamless an experience as yours is, as one cannot play games geared for a newer machine in an older one. As a result, a situation like that would not ever be possible, thus the term "backwards compatible" as you used it is not valid.
On that note, as much as you apparently wish I were, I wasn't begging; this isn't the 1930s and I'm not in the breadline. I can get by perfectly well without the video we were talking about (since our discussion in that thread was pruned and collated to create an entirely new thread in a different section of the website). The video was initially released in 1080. Since you're a bastion of technical proficiency and digital prowess, surely you're aware that nowadays it's commonplace for different quality versions of a video to be made available for everyone's benefit. That's generally understood to be a gesture of common courtesy. Clearly, that got by you.
Simply put, someone posted a video that was only viewable for the "biggest/best/newest" and as much as I would have liked to see that video, I shouldn't have to shell out money for new equipment I don't need or want, nor should I be expected to do so by condescending, smug denizens of the internet (such as yourself) when what I have works perfectly well but for playing those "biggest/best/newest" videos. Not worth it.