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Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the more interesting bits around the dissemination and consumption of comics in digital form (after arguing about the old men running Broadway). Scott geekbites Peepo Choo, and Rym rambles about the Riverside Trek Fest failing.
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Intelligent debate makes a great listen.
Also, I sent the episode over to Major Spoilers, to see what they had to say about it. Might take it over to the forums there, I don't know.
A dedicated comic tab, with say, an A4 form factor and high rez display would not sell. Tablets are selling because they are everything to everyone. Web, social, media. The fact it can display comics nicely is just a bonus.
Assuming iPad3 bumps up the rez, I think you will see it become the reader of choice, iPad2 probably is now (Talking tablets here, not laptops and netbooks) and I’ve read a few comics on my friends iPad1 and they look freaken nice! I would totally read everything on it, that I cannot or will not get legally in physical form.
Music -ïƒ MP3 player
Comics -ïƒ Tablets
This is going to be huge. Once the distribution models are set up. And if not, torrents FTW.
Yes, I'm an old school Sega fan...
Final result: It's not terrible, but the resolution is just low enough that it's a pain in the ass to read.
If it was a few years earlier, then yeah, it would be a no-brainer to get an NES. Although, I did have a soft spot for the Sega Master System (and Sega itself) because one of my favorite ColecoVision games was a Sega port called Carnival (granted, I think part of it was because I was a lot better at this than the ColecoVision pack-in game, Donkey Kong).
It's within five paces of being the right thing, I'll put it that way.
All my friends had an SNES though so the pain was somewhat mitigated.
On the upside I got to play Herzog Zwei, Fantasy Star 4, Shining Force 1 and 2, Gunstar Heroes, General Chaos and MK with BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUD.
I have always been an Nintendo man, but I dealt with the older brother conundrum, where he got more say in how the family spent it's video game money. I vastly prefered the Nintendo systems, but I do have really fond memories of the Master System and its games. I feel like part of some select club. We did always have a Game Boy from the very beginning at least.
I'd say the Genesis was probably more powerful in functions that are purely CPU-bound (the AI in sports games seems to have been a noted example of this) whereas the SNES was more powerful in graphics and sound processing due to its increased RAM and superior support hardware (hence why games on both systems usually looked and sounded better on the SNES).
Interestingly enough, that jerk face may have confused the SNES with the TurboGrafx 16, which basically used an overclocked version of the same 8-bit 6502 CPU that the original NES did, although it did combine it with a pair of 16-bit graphics coprocessors.
I had a Genesis as a kid, it was my choice. Though I think I only ever owned like three games for it. I played a lot of Sonic 2 and Sonic Spinball.