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Sony and Toshiba Give Up On Unified DVD Format
HoTiCE_ is one of several to let us know, Reuters is reporting Sony and Toshiba have apparently given up efforts to develop a unified format for next-generation DVDs. The two companies had opened up negotiations but they fell through due to time constraints on new products from both groups.
Whats going on with holographic storage ?
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Seems like there's news but no product to ship .
http://news.google.com/news?q=holographic+storage
I'd like to congratulate the mod who modded the parent post as Troll. May the metamods fall on you repeteadly :)
"H.264 will be the winner in the end". That quote stuck my memory and this is why. We both know that your adoption of Blu-ray is lip service. We both know that you don't need an optical drive in your vision of the future. Hell, you probably haven't even got one in quadcore UberBook. The only reason you have signed up to this 'standard' is to keep Sony happy and because for all the speed that this industry moves, people are slow to adopt change, and a computer without an optical drive just isn't going to shift.
This bit of news has got to have made you smile. Two competing standards for a dead medium! Hah! All that's going to do is drive people towards your product: iMVS (iMovie Video Store). Now we both know that people are quite happy with renting movies. Hell, the only reason they buy them is because they're too lazy to get off their ass when they want to watch The Incredibles for the 100th time (good call with Pixar btw). The thing you don't understand is why the cable companies haven't done it first. I mean they've had the technology for years, but they've never done anything about it... or have they. They know a lot about broadcast, but they know jack shit about storage, and user interfaces.
Now as I see it, this store is going to be slightly different to iTMS. For a start your not going to sell movies, your going to rent them. Music is different. You buy a song, you want to know that you can listen to it constantly for the rest of your life if you want to. Movies are like books. You read a good book maybe twice in your life... except for one thing: your eyes don't get an upgrade every 12-24 months. I watched the Matrix on VHS, the big screen and DVD, if it comes out on 1024i I'll watch it on that too... once. A year later, when I've bough a wall filling 20Gpxl plasmatron drive (or whatever happens next) I'm going to want to watch The Matrix again to see what it looks like, but I'm going to want it at 20Gpxls. Now you can offer me that service for $20 a month, all-you-can-eat, movie rental service. Regular 'updates' to the client software will enable you to keep the studios much happier about this medium than any of the optical disk formats and H.264 will mean that you can interogate the client and only send me the data I need for that viewing.
Now I know what your thinking... where is the expensive hardware that I can use to pay for this service? Worry no more. Its not the iVid. Its the AirPort Express QT. Plug it into the wall behind your TV, plug that into RCA adapters at the back of your TV, and voila! Instant expensive hardware. I would happily hand over $150 dollars for this device. If it costs you $20 I'd be suprised. Even better. Sell a TiVo like box with an 80GB harddrive. Hell, buy TiVo! It lets you save 3 movies from the store, and record live TV! Thats gotta be $300 a unit right there.
Don't do it for me. Don't do it for the kids. Do it for the money. You'll make a killing, become the movie magnate you always dreamed of and if you do it like this the people will love you for over charging them! Remember, the reason that iTMS was successful was becuase you never expected to make any money from selling the music. You can do the same here. Honest, you can.
Thank you Mr. Jobs for your time.
Yours sincerly
El Womble
PS - Can I get a pony too?
Scared of flying, pointy things snce 1979!