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After months of spear shaking on both sides, the first skirmishes in the high-definition disc format wars have begun. In early May, I looked at Toshiba?s chosen format, HD DVD. Today, I present the very first Blu-ray disc player, Samsung?s significantly more expensive BD-P1000...
...wasn't impressed. He said, ?This is how it's supposed to be.? Standard DVDs may sell big, but their content is simply the wrong size for the high-definition TV sets finding their way into more and more homes across the country. One high-def disc format must win, though it's still too early to know which. There will likely be a balanced roster of titles on each side by Christmas - HD DVD anchored by Universal and Warner Bros, with additional movies from Paramount, with Sony, Lionsgate, Fox and Disney leading the Blu-ray lineup. Paramount and Warner...
...says.Students said that stylistic variations between professors, however, worked to invigorate the courses.“With two different lecture styles, it breaks things up, students have something new to look forward to,” Adolphson says. “The new style and new format recreates the energy you have at the beginning of semesters.”Dongbo Yu ’07 says that Gordon and Adolphson definitely had different emphases, but he was comfortable with the way they conducted their lectures.Nevertheless, variations should not be too extreme. “It works well when...
...students in 2002 to 5,746 in 2006, a four-year decline of more than 17 percent. Over the past 11 years, the district has lost over 27 percent of its students. The hearing, which was specially called to address the declining enrollment, was held in a roundtable format, meaning that committee members could speak freely but the public could not ask questions. It was the result of a resolution sponsored at the last regular School Committee meeting by member Patricia M. Nolan ’80, a sharp critic of the school district’s leadership. The roundtable...
...students in 2002 to 5,746 in 2006, a four-year decline of more than 17 percent. Over the past 11 years, the district has lost over 27 percent of its students. The hearing, which was specially called to address the declining enrollment, was held in a roundtable format, meaning that committee members could speak freely but the public could not ask questions. It was the result of a resolution sponsored at the last regular School Committee meeting by member Patricia M. Nolan ’80, a sharp critic of the school district’s leadership.The roundtable began...