Movie Software make HT a Waste of Resources?

We can all take a beer and liten up. I argue Corporations and their proxy (National Government, e.g. Enron)keep us in a planned, constant state of litening up. Americans act on trivial knowledge (does anyone pay attention to the increasing trivial reporting on CNN after they fired their old anchors in favor of actresses and beauty models delivering the news in manner modeled directly from MTV?). We, as Americans, live what is about a controlled life by corporations (Please be informed: Clear Channel or two other corporations Owns 95% of FM and the majority of concerts, Michael Powell (FCC Chairman) wants them to own Newspapers, TV, and Radio in most communities). How can Americans be informed. Who is informing them? Pat Robertson? Please check out these assertions. If they are wrong, please let us all know with relevent citations. Movies are from one point of view a reflection of what we should all value the most: Our Time. When we speak with our discretionary time we signal how thoughtful or trivial we are. In response to the comments directly above: This is clearly on topic in great correlation to the facts. I am not arguing American people are stupid if given the facts, I am arguing their (indisputably)grossly overweight bodies (if you travel Europe you will know that an American meal serving is greatly more than what you get in Europe, not better quality (most of Europe bans genetically modified food)but more of it and with greater amounts of food processing) and outrageous disregard for balance of nature surely reflects that Americans are out of balance with the rest of "industrial" Europe. This is serious stuff with the facts on every major database available. If Americans are no less stupid (which I agree) you have to agree they are much more hood winked by their distructive purchases (case in point: Home Theatre processors worth next to nothing 6 years after they are made (in fact after the mandatory 5 years of parts support, try to get your "Everything on one Circuit Board" board replaced) Processors full of rare elements and toxic components (if not in content in the manufacture of them). Multichannel amplifers that can hardly keep up with the bi-annual increase in more channels. More power, more electricity needed = MORE OIL, MORE NUCLEAR POWER = MORE DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN POLICY DRIVEN BY CHEAP OIL. If this does not reflect a (as Pink Floyd in 1979 said) Comfortly Numb society, What does?

Am I the only one the color is pissing off???? you want to see colors go to http://www.colorgenics.com other wise lets KISS(keep it simple stupid). Thanks
Tim

Glad its only color or are we?

NUFF SAID

This thread is on target on the most important aspect of our audio choices: Who controls the game and how they control the game. It is, in good measure, how "we" in the rush to keep up with latest and "greatest" movie hardware are actually destroying our range and depth of real options.

Golliath sized multinational manufacturers building in some of the most planned obsolete technology in the history of humanity (home theatre)and the impacts it has on the rest of our audio options, the natural resources it wastes due in part by the extremely short term market value of the products and the related perception it fosters in young people that electronics are throw away items (like kleenex), and the people it adversely affects. Companies are dying off, like flys on a Frosty Fall night, on a regular basis as they try their 2-3 year stint into Home Theatre before collapsing primarily because they lack the resources to follow the dance of "Ring around Format Tree Game" (this process is not too much different than the apparent crushing of the Soviet Union by the Soviets burning up all their cash reserves trying to compete around Military Arms Tree).

A not to hard to imagine result: Essentially only multinational corporations will be around making electronics we are "allowed" to have in a few years (Clarion Car Radio people buying up McIntosh and diluting quality for the sake of a ton of me-too convenience laden non-sense audio, Harmon Kardon International playing hard ball with Mark Levinson), and destroying jobs and at the same time making for nearly worthless hardware 6 years after it is made), and zoombie like quality of not questioning the disportionate outlays of money necessary to follow this Ring Around The Format Tree game is central to a debate that we all should take to the Multinationals including Sony, Pioneer, and Hitachi etc. The remote control life seems to have gone from meaning us controlling our TV sets to the Corporations controlling us by testing how fast they can make equipment ready for the landfill and how fast we will be to buy into this wasteful cycle. Just so they can keep the profit cycle accelerating (how many have tried to get support from any of these big multinationals after their equipment is 8 or more years old as compared to companies of passion and integrity like Audio Research, BAT, etc.)