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HD DVD Demo a Disappointment
triso writes to tell us that the recent unveiling of the new Toshiba HD DVD production model met with a few difficulties. From the article: "It was supposed to be the grand unveiling of a new generation in home entertainment when Kevin Collins of Microsoft Corp. popped an HD DVD disc into a Toshiba production model and hit 'play.' Nothing happened. The failed product demo at this week's International Consumer Electronics Show was hardly an auspicious start for the HD DVD camp in what's promising to be a nasty format war similar to the Betamax/VHS video tape battle."
Because something not working is new for Microsoft?
Purple, because ice cream has no bones.
The Detroit News ran an AP story YESTERDAY with a pic.
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"Anyway, looking forward to Steve Job's keynote this week at MacWorld. Hopefully he will introduce something from totally out left field and blow us all away."
My guess is just the video version of an iPod. Amazing we are debating high-resolution TV and DVD but Apple thinks consumers want to watch TV shows on a 2 inch screen. I will give Apple the win here; I almost guarantee video iPods will outsell HD-DVD for a long time to come. As for something out of left field that blows us away they could introduce and great new server or networking technology...oh wait...we are talking about Apple. They could introduce a great new system or software that could save businesses thousands of dollars...oh wait once again...Apple doesn't do that either. I think your left field this year from Apple is a fancier version of iTunes, and an iPod that plays video and comes in 15 pastel colors. Apple doesn't invent anymore, they just find a way to make exisitng technology look good, and market it into the mainstream.
In short: Mac users migrate within the Mac family, Windows uaers within the Windows family and 2006 won't be the year of Linux on the desktop.