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   Luke Hooft to All   
   Re: The utter and total lack of worthwhi   
   21 Apr 08 23:50:55   
   
   From: blank@nothing.com   
      
   POD {Ò¿Ó} wrote:   
   > I wanted to change my wallpaper.  I have one of the official FC   
   > wallpapers from WB, the one with Deckard hanging from the I beam, which   
   > shows a ledge for him to stand on...hanging from 2 fingers, me arse!!!!   
   >   
   > So I do a google image search, and I am truly amazed at the very limted   
   > and pretty rubbish set of results it returns.  Especially when you limit   
   > the results to very large images.  When you consider how many screen   
   > grabs for the blu-ray HD-DVD there are out there, Google is just not   
   > picking them up in it's search.   
   >   
   > Yahoo is just as bad, while they do have more photos from the film, they   
   > push their own products, so half the results on each page are images   
   > from "flickr", and they are generally just some lame city nightscape   
   > that someone has named "Blade Runner", and they also don't give the   
   > pixel size of Flickr images, and when you are looking for very large   
   > images, it doesn't help.   
   >   
   > So the search continues....   
   >   
     I have never, ever seen screen grabs from a blu-ray or HD DVD, even in   
   reviews of them. I think it's difficult to take grabs due to them being   
   protected. There must be a way around it though.   
      
   LH   
      
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