Because it's much harder to read incredibly long lines and it's unreasonable to have to constantly resize your browser window to view many different sites appropriately?
Those numbers aren't even close to correct. The PS3 has only sold 5.5 million units, and only 2.26 million of those are in the United States, where this war is being primarily fought. On the other hand, HD-DVD has sold WAY more than 150,000 standalone players. Just recently, with the $99 sale, they sold over 90,000 Toshiba HD-A2s in a period of three days. The number is more like 500,000 and the numbers for the Xbox 360 add-on are about double what you quoted.
Let us also not forget that anyone who is buying a PS3 could be buying it for games, movies, or both. We don't really know. However, there is no reason to buy the add-on for the Xbox 360 unless you intend to watch HD-DVDs, so those are just as powerful as standalone players.
If I round up the actual numbers of players by about 200,000 each, the ratio of Blu-Ray to HD-DVD players in the market is 6:1. However, at best Blu-Ray has had a 2:1 sales lead in software, and at worst they have been almost dead even (51:49 the week of the Transformers release, even with a Buy-One Get-One offer on the Blu-Ray side for that week, not to mention that these Nielsen numbers do not include Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the country which has sold a LOT of HD-DVD hardware recently).
Sony cannot build a Blu-Ray platform with the PS3 as the flagship piece of hardware. It's too expensive and it's unappealing to people who just want to play movies. Toshiba is offering a solution at 1/2 to 1/4 the price, depending on discounts at retailers.
I don't see why people are opposed to internet connectivity. I think that, even accounting for the negative aspects, having an internet connection can easily enrich anyone's life. It's not just about crappy flash games or MySpace.
Earlier this week, I was spending some time at a relative's house and their internet connection went down for two days. Being a college student, I am used to 24/7 high-speed access. I realized that I have these natural impulses to search for things on the net when I think of them. Just finished watching The Prestige? Check out Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB to see what other people thought of it and possibly to discuss it. Looking for an obscure item? Instead of hunting for hours or days driving around, give it a quick search. Want to find a place to eat? Look up locations of restaurants, reviews, etc., all in just a few seconds. Surely even people who don't see the value in the more "nerdy" aspects of the internet could see the value in these services, which are just few among many.
I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I don't have the net access to act on these information gathering impulses, it feels like I'm stuck on a remote island. While I'm sure some prefer this remoteness, I certainly don't. It's not that the Internet has taken over part of my life, but it is a relatively reliable tool to make life easier and more enjoyable in so many ways and I feel like something important is missing without it.
Amen to that. The musical artists I enjoy most are the ones capable of creating a cohesive album that is more than the sum of its parts. These albums are what, in my mind, define musical creativity and talent. I hope I am not in the minority on this, though I fear that I am.
Also, I wouldn't always blame every artist for filler on their CDs. It's not so much that the music industry picks a bunch of crappy songs to include...it has more to do with artificial restrictions being placed on artists based on their contracts, and forcing them to have an album, regardless of the content, by a certain date.
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Because it's much harder to read incredibly long lines and it's unreasonable to have to constantly resize your browser window to view many different sites appropriately?
Personally I've always thought it was a rather lousy red spot.
For those of us who read slashdot for a long time before registering...alas.
Those numbers aren't even close to correct. The PS3 has only sold 5.5 million units, and only 2.26 million of those are in the United States, where this war is being primarily fought. On the other hand, HD-DVD has sold WAY more than 150,000 standalone players. Just recently, with the $99 sale, they sold over 90,000 Toshiba HD-A2s in a period of three days. The number is more like 500,000 and the numbers for the Xbox 360 add-on are about double what you quoted. Let us also not forget that anyone who is buying a PS3 could be buying it for games, movies, or both. We don't really know. However, there is no reason to buy the add-on for the Xbox 360 unless you intend to watch HD-DVDs, so those are just as powerful as standalone players. If I round up the actual numbers of players by about 200,000 each, the ratio of Blu-Ray to HD-DVD players in the market is 6:1. However, at best Blu-Ray has had a 2:1 sales lead in software, and at worst they have been almost dead even (51:49 the week of the Transformers release, even with a Buy-One Get-One offer on the Blu-Ray side for that week, not to mention that these Nielsen numbers do not include Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the country which has sold a LOT of HD-DVD hardware recently). Sony cannot build a Blu-Ray platform with the PS3 as the flagship piece of hardware. It's too expensive and it's unappealing to people who just want to play movies. Toshiba is offering a solution at 1/2 to 1/4 the price, depending on discounts at retailers.
I don't see why people are opposed to internet connectivity. I think that, even accounting for the negative aspects, having an internet connection can easily enrich anyone's life. It's not just about crappy flash games or MySpace.
Earlier this week, I was spending some time at a relative's house and their internet connection went down for two days. Being a college student, I am used to 24/7 high-speed access. I realized that I have these natural impulses to search for things on the net when I think of them. Just finished watching The Prestige? Check out Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB to see what other people thought of it and possibly to discuss it. Looking for an obscure item? Instead of hunting for hours or days driving around, give it a quick search. Want to find a place to eat? Look up locations of restaurants, reviews, etc., all in just a few seconds. Surely even people who don't see the value in the more "nerdy" aspects of the internet could see the value in these services, which are just few among many.
I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I don't have the net access to act on these information gathering impulses, it feels like I'm stuck on a remote island. While I'm sure some prefer this remoteness, I certainly don't. It's not that the Internet has taken over part of my life, but it is a relatively reliable tool to make life easier and more enjoyable in so many ways and I feel like something important is missing without it.
Amen to that. The musical artists I enjoy most are the ones capable of creating a cohesive album that is more than the sum of its parts. These albums are what, in my mind, define musical creativity and talent. I hope I am not in the minority on this, though I fear that I am.
Also, I wouldn't always blame every artist for filler on their CDs. It's not so much that the music industry picks a bunch of crappy songs to include...it has more to do with artificial restrictions being placed on artists based on their contracts, and forcing them to have an album, regardless of the content, by a certain date.