Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I just moved into a new apartment and have been reading about all of the new power strips out there, especially the green ones. I was wondering if you had any suggestions about which "green "power strips are out there with decent joules ratings. And when I say green, I mean power strips that have the remotes or switches to turn off all electricity flowing to certain plugs and with at least 2 plugs that are always on. I was looking specifically at sub $50 because I will need two, but if that is not possible I could be convinced otherwise. Thanks!"
@ mntwister:
When compression is done properly it is a space saver while preserving the beauty of the image. DVDs are compressed within an inch of their lives using the old MPEG2, and they still look great. The main problem is that they're standard def (720X480).
Nothing is infinite (except for human stupidity, to paraphrase Einstein), and even BR disks have finite space. Which means compression. I work in this industry, and believe me, there's nothing on the consumer front that has both capacity and, especially, bandwidth, to play full HD uncompressed. And wait for 4K to come.
All the modern codecs, including AVCHD, are really brilliant pieces of engineering. And remember - the point of engineering is not to use as much horsepower as possible (anyone can do that), but to make something that's robust, yet with as little resources as possible.
The point is, if it looks good, who cares how much it's compressed?