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Three Minutes With Mark Cuban

Posted by timothy on from the wise-guy-eh dept.

Thomas Hawk writes "Mark Cuban, owner of the Mavericks, HDNET, blogger extraordinaire and all around tech visionary really, really gets it. Read on for his views on Media Center, content delivery via hard drive instead of DVD, movie conversions to HD, Home entertainment, etc."

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  1. He's a bigger geek than Taco by Patik · · Score: 5, Interesting
    His company's site is even coded with valid HTML, something that can't be said for many major sites.

    I love the fact that his channel broadcasts all movies in their original aspect ratio with 5.1-channel sound. And this part made me laugh:

    "We have a show called HDNet World Report where we put cameras in all kinds of hot spots--Iraq, wherever. And when we show a firefight or some sort of bombing, we don't have the reporter say anything. They just say, "We're in Iraq, we're in Baghdad, and there's a firefight going on, I'll shut up and let you watch it." And being able to see it in wide-screen high resolution with 5.1 sound, if you have a tank firing, you hear it coming out of one ear and see it leaving out of the other ear. It's just incredible. Just to be able to see it like you're actually sitting there is amazing."

    1. Re:He's a bigger geek than Taco by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Reading that quote reminded me of when I was recently watching the Democratic National Convention on INHD a few weeks ago. It was completely devoid of commentaries, interviews, political polls and what not. I even watched the entire performance of Black Eyed Peas. Anyhow, I decided to surf to a different channel and happened to land on MSNBC. After watching it for a little while and listening to all the various talking heads, it was so obvious to me that you can come away with a totally different point of view when watching it with commentaries versus without. So in response to that quote, yeah, I think it's pretty amazing to watch...

  2. Movies on a hard disk. by leonara · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This raises all sorts of interesting questions.
    Since folks like Netflix and Walmart have to buy the copies of the movies they rent out, the movies that are distributed via hard disks will need to be licensed copies as well. I wonder how the owners of the rights will keep track of the copies that are put on the hard disks - especially since the intention is to reuse the media.

    The mode of distribution is not also as simple as the Netflix mechanism. Sending hard drives by mail cannot be as easy or cost effective as sending CDs by mail.

    Some of what he says does sound futuristic - it may well become feasible in the future, but would it be possible now?

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  3. Well by Grell · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If your only exposure to the guy is through news reports he may come off as a little arrogant, but damn: read the blog.

    He's got a lot to back up that confidence, really insightful on a lot of things, and yet not afraid to admit where he's clueless.

    Impressive dude.

    ~G

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    ...when it gets down to fundamentals, do what you have to do and shed no tears. Dr. Matson in Tunnel in the Sky
  4. Re:Lucky or Smart? by alphaseven · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'd say a bit of both, like he was a multi-millionaire businessman before he started broadcast.com (selling MicroSolutions to Compuserve), and he's done okay with the Mavericks. The guy knows what he's doing.

    Less of a fluke artist than that guy that started hotmail and sold it for hundreds of millions of dollars.