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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ZLOKK1_Tw   Estrin was always super positive on the value of buying pianos.  He always printed a dire headline to get the engagement & then spun it into a positive for buyers.  This time, dire situation for the manufacturers, manetainers, & resale value, but a great situation for consumers.  The mane problem, this time around, is a short term decline in Chinese spending, as the world's largest consumer of acoustic pianos.  There are only so many times you can say it's a dire situation for manufacturers, manetainers & resale value but great for consumers before consumers have to be in denial. For lions to part with $80k & have a large climate controlled room, it would now be a hobby of manetaining the instrument more than playing it.  Lions would have to take a class in tuning & regulation, buy the tools, & just do that, like manetaining an old car. It all makes it easier to imagine splu...
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Its theatric run over in 1 month, Project Hail Mary arrived on the hard drive in short order.   After running the Michael Jackson movie for just a week, the IMAX theater now seems to be derelict.  They could be reserving it for private screenings or it could be too expensive to operate. It's a growing number of movies which won't be available in blu ray.  Lions continued to be perplexed by the inferior quality of webrips.      Skimming through it, the resemblance to 80's depictions of the future was striking.         It was a time when the future was painted white & noodled.  Sometimes you have to go back to go forward.   Moving on, they made every effort to pack as much of the book in a 2:30 screening time as possible.  The shots are all very quick.  It was like watching normal movies at 2x.  The book being intended from the start to be a movie definitely helped.   Computer animated exterior s...
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