- Publishers settle with Google for book scanning.
- Christian Science Monitor dropping print edition and going all digital.
- Cloud computing in the news to an extreme.
- Windows 7 having embedded features. Could this mean “instant on?”
- Blu-ray players hitting $150. I have my thoughts on the problem.
- Wal-Mart on the Google Android phone bandwagon.
Right click here and select ‘Save Link As…’ to download the mp3 file.
I rather buy a HD than a Blu-ray player.
Which one shops at Wal-Mart?
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#2 – Special Ed
None of these…
Blu-ray appears to be dead, as the local Meijers has scaled back their blu-ray section to one little shelf section again, and it no longer gets the entire isle.
Maybe that is just a reality of Depression Era Michigan…
#3 – Wow, I’d like to get them in a pile. Granted it would be a big fucking pile.
Isn’t October 28th a Tuesday?!?
#1 – This is the HD to buy!
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Breaking computer industry news…
Microsoft just announced that they are releasing Office 14 as a web app.
I’m not sure of John’s logic about dvd recorders being the death of blu-ray. I personally know of no one that has a dvd recorder. Granted, John is probably ahead of the curve than most people, but I would think that most people just use their DVR’s/Tivo’s from whoever their TV provider is and thats it. I personally just got a PS3 and went and rented a couple of movies and the blu-rays do look much better on a big HDTV than standard DVDs. Standard DVDs look much grain-ier than the blu-ray movies. As long as they keep the players backward compatible, people will take a chance on a 150 dollar player. And lest we forget downloading of HD content also. But as long as service providers keep instituting low-ball caps, this will keep that in check. Just my 2 cents worth…
John: Are you mispronouncing azure on purpose or don’t you know it is “az-your” not “ah-zhur”?
Maybe you’re confused with “au-jus”?
Jeez. Look it up for gosh sakes…
we have lost over RECORDERS…most of them any way..
And those that are OUT THERE, dont have all the features Unless you want to PAY BIG BUCKS..
NOW add to it..
DIVX
AVI
MPG, and all the OTHER formats and data packets we can play..
NOW, add a NETWORK cable, and you have something..
“Isn’t October 28th a Tuesday?!?” Yes it was. That’s how boring a Wednesday, it was.
Seems I remember hearing that a new DVD format was in the works to replace Blu-Ray, quite soon. So naturally, the current players WOULD come down in price, just before their planned obsolescence. And hopefully the newer format’s players will handle all the older ones, to make transition easier. A BluRay recorder might be possible, but totally impractical. The VHS/DVR sources would be of lesser quality than BluRay’s. Anything that passes thru the composite or S-Video jacks isn’t up to BluRay quality.
Cloud computing for word processing sounds like the NSA’s latest domestic spying scheme. With a some corporate espionage for good measure. Cause I’m sure profitable secrets would get passed on to whoever pays the most for them. Cloud computing gets around the encryption cracking chore, that emails might impose on finished documents. There’s little doubt the NSA would have a backdoor into the Cloud, as they’ve had in other communication vectors. The ARPAnet was made into the Internet, to allow the agency access your email traffic, that more isolated services like Compuserve and Crash Mail, would have hindered the snooping of. If that had been all there was by now. The paving of the Information Superhighway, kept us all off those unmonitorable back roads, and on the highly monitored multi-lanes.
The future is broadband downloaded movies. NetFlix’s service is just a preview of things to come.
DVD9 will be here to stay and its dirt cheap.
If Microsoft really wanted to do System 7 right, it would put its kernal on a rom chip, that would install on motherboards, and be virtually incorruptible. Then only patches, drivers, and a master config file would need to loaded from the hard drive. And defaults of any of these would be in the rom, if they were missing. This isn’t a new idea. My old Commodore Amiga had its OS kernal on a rom chip, from version 2.0 and on. This made it tough for viruses and worms to operate successfully on it.
PC motherboard makers could have provided a rom card slot, much like the AGP slot is now. Or like the BIOS eprom chip has always been. But I gather Microsoft never wanted to have its OS confined to a socketed chip or card. It wasn’t considered as novice friendly to install as a CD or floppy.
#10 – Az-hole
Both the HDs are fine (the second one more so) but you’re missing the point: where would you find HD content? Net downloads? Hardly! Either they’re not really HD or are compressed silly!
My guess is: if they sell the player for under $150, this Holiday season, next year they’ll be at $99, and at that prices, people start buying them and makes a market for BD content. My main issue today is that the media is still expensive. If a BD costs as much as a DVD…
#16,
You are mistaken… The HD downloads on xbox live are almost idential to Blu-ray videos on my 720p television… Maybe it is different on a 1080p television… But Im sticking with plain old DVD’s (after a brief forray into various HD formats) for now because the HD part didn’t make the movies more betterer. Yes, absolutely I can see the clarity improvement over plain old DVD, no question about it.
Also, now that 50Mb internet will become widespread in the next year or so, even the problems people had with 4-6gig 720p downloads or 10-15gig 1080p downloads will go away. You will be able to stream both those formats.
At the same time, around these parts… we have these DVD rental kiosks turning up everywhere. Those are handy and cheap enough that I think they might just extend the physical fomat for a couple more years.
17 & 18
Real HD (720 & 1080) is quite different from upconverting, I can assure you. The main issue is film. Sometimes the film original is grainy and dirty, so it won’t translate well into HD. Also not all transcriptions are created equal. But if you pick films already edited on digital systems (ie. all films within 10 years) they already are in digital format, at least at 2K resolution.
yes, JUMP to BR, and forget ALL THOSE DVDs you bought..
Who still has VHS tape?
Do you really want to go out and RE-purchase ALLL those movies??