Review: TF:A Freeway Jazz, Electrostatic Soundwave

[dvandom]

Soundwave with a keytar is a nifty concept, but the execution was lacking. And Jazz is biting Bluestreak's style.

Comments

[jameel.livejournal.com]

Basically, unless the phrase "Soundwave with a Ratbat keytar" has already sold you on the toy, don't bother.

You rang?

[thandrak.livejournal.com]

I want one with a Frenzy and Rumble drumset now.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

I've already worked out how to make the piston arms into a drumset (swiveling so each piston becomes two drumheads with a split-level effect), and the drumsticks clip over Soundwave's hands or become the backpack antennae for Frumbly.

[thandrak.livejournal.com]

I was going to use the cymbals for the backpack antennas. Actually, I was going to do a double-bass drum, so you'd be able to do Frenzy as a drum set, or Rumble as a drum set, or Frenzy + Rumble as a biiiig drum set.

then I was gonna position Hack and Slash at it.

[diosoth.livejournal.com]

You could buy that upcoming fan made Frenzy bot. But it'll probably cost $40 and won't even be Animated aesthetic.

[thandrak.livejournal.com]

http://thatwillbuffout.com/2009/12/01/funny-car-photos-om-nom-nom-nom/

Hum de hum

[diosoth.livejournal.com]

I don't see the MP3 format going anywhere for a LONG time, barring the RIAA finally making illegal downloads a criminal offense or a much smaller file format is released that holds DRM.

OGG is already a good deal smaller but almost no one cares about it. some people complain it's of lower quality(I can't hear the difference) and it's a non-DRM format so the big companies won't adopt it. Finding a player that even supports the format is tricky.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Let's put it this way: how many punchcards do you own for your computer? How much of your software is written in BASIC? Forty to fifty years, purely on the hardware side, will lead to changes in file formatting. Sure, you could still store MP3s on a 2050s machine, but you can still emulate a C-64 on a Windows 7 box...that doesn't make either a "live" format. In other words, there will be a better file format that takes advantage of the better hardware. And since MP3s aren't physical things like vinyl, there wouldn't really even be a collectors' market, except for people upconverting obscure old files.

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

You say this after, when sorting old stuff, I found two 8.5 inch floppies (HUGE!) an old Adam computer with a tape drive that I e-bayed, and a portable record player that my sister grabbed for her records. Plus a box of old punch cards, which my mother still can read, though I have no idea how.

I did think of the 'collecting antiques' thing, but you're right, anyone could convert it to a new format and there's no difference. I've made mp3's out of freinds ogg files for a while now as they didn't know how to play them.

[diosoth.livejournal.com]

Oh, I get that, but I still see the MP3 format sticing around perhaps longer than it should. 50 years? No. 20 more years? 10 more years? Most likely. It'll be phased out when a compression routine comes out that can really cut down on file size without any quality loss, and when the industry picks up on that format. A new format won't mean anything unless the portable players can play it or if the general public won't adopt it(hence, OGG's seeming failure).

FLAC files are still being traded heavily even though they're roughly 5X the file size, all because "quality" obsessed types are a bit picky. Not that portable players handle them but people with big home theater systems want to squeeze that extra few percent out of their speakers.