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...Goulburn are also weighing up the assurances of experts. The town's main dam dried up in April and two others are less than a third full. Outdoor water use is banned, and since 2002, residents have halved their personal consumption to 150 liters a day. New bores, a $A1 million-a-week cartage scheme and an emergency pipeline have all been readied, but Mayor Paul Stephenson says recycling has to top the long-term list: "The only way we can really be sure that we never go through this again is to reuse water in one form or another...
...generally confined to the Western Desert communities around Alice Springs, where the highest concentration of artists live. Here the pressure has been mounting ever since Geoffrey Bardon began marketing the prized work of his Papunya artists in 1971. Incorporated the following year, Papunya Tula Artists were turning over $A1 million a year by 1988, and their success did not go unnoticed. When the exhibition "Dreamings" toured to New York in 1988, "all of a sudden taxi drivers and carpetbaggers from the desert were rocking up with works by the same artists rolled up under their arms and flogging them...
...video sources, the HD DVD player got confused and froze up, requiring me to restart the thing. I can't say that newer HDMI sets will have this problem, but I imagine anyone with an older yet compatible set like mine should be ready for hiccups. Besides the HD-A1 and Toshiba's $800 premium HD-XA1, only one other HD DVD player is slated for introduction this year, RCA's $500 HDV5000. Incidentally, it, too, is built by Toshiba. (In the longer term, Microsoft has suggested that it may evangelize the technology in China, where manufacturers with weaker brands...
...mentioned in the magazine a few weeks back, HD DVD is here. I'm not just taking the word of the people at Toshiba, NBC Universal and Warner Home Video, either. I have experienced it first-hand, by connecting the HD-A1 player to a 42-inch plasma TV and a 5.1 surround-sound speaker system. When I compared the HD DVD of last year's sci-fi cult film Serenity with its DVD, the difference was powerful. I called my wife in as a witness, and she immediately noticed the richer detail and deeper color. That's just...
...options, I have boiled them down to two: The conservative play is to wait until the PS3 comes out. By then, there will be a critical mass of videos available in each format, and pricing and availability will be more clear. The more daring play is getting an HD-A1 now. If you can find one, that is - they've been selling out everywhere...