Sunday, February 17, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
I am so lucky that I didn't buy that kit, because I would just have a lump of ugly hardware to recycle now. I have experience with Blu-Ray... back then it took about a minute to boot the box (with the obligatory hourglass icon), maybe those times have come down with better custom Linux kernels. I imagine M$ will come out with a Blu-Ray player sometime soon after it can convince itself to stop supporting HD DVD. Then I might get one that way.
3 Comments:
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Kenneth said...
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“Personally it seems like both technologies were dead on arrival, since storage seems not to be shifting to remote or device based.
Apple's release of HD download rentals and purchases are somewhat indicative of what is to come. There current model and offering is slightly flawed, but it is one of those you must crawl before you run scenarios.” -
e.dolecki said...
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“I don't think both formats are DOA. Not everyone has broadband, and not all want to pay for that kind of access yet. We have it (we can get HD movies streamed to our house via FiOS). Its nice, but I would also like to actually own some of my own media too.
Apple TV is yet another conduit, like FiOS, of delivering high-bandwidth content if you can stream it well enough.
I'm sure Blu-Ray will die, as will red laser DVD, once bandwidth is ubiquitous. Then it will all be over-cable and wireless delivery.” -
Tariq Ahmed said...
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“Well I personally want the physical media. E.g. with iTunes, if your computer has a harddrive crash - it's not that easy to call up Apple and go "hey I got anew computer now, can you let me download it again w/o paying?"
But ya... I bought my 360 HDDVD player specifically for Transformers in HD. And then all this bad news for HDDVD comes out and my wife is like... so you basically just wasted money.
I'm like... well $120 to play Transformers in high-def is worth it. :)”
