While Sony did invest much to make BR a success, many other companies like Panasonic and Philips worked together to create Blu-ray and perceive royalties.
And what about AVC, VC-1, Dolby TrueHD etc..
Here is the Blu-Ray association board of directors:
Apple Computer, Inc. Dell Inc. Hewlett Packard Company Hitachi, Ltd. LG Electronics Inc. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Pioneer Corporation Royal Philips Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Sharp Corporation Sony Corporation Sun Microsystems, Inc. TDK Corporation Thomson Multimedia Twentieth Century Fox Walt Disney Pictures Warner Bros. Entertainment
Titles that will use the features like the Internet connectivity will be compatible with players who do not support Internet, only without the internet connectivity.
Any future title should be compatible with any current player, as long as it support the advanced encryption which is already present in some titles.
Since the introduction of Blu-Ray, it consistently won marketshare from HD-DVD, it went from zilch to two-thirds of the market during 2007.
According to Nielsen, for the week ending January 20th, Blu-Ray disc sales accounted for 83% of the high definition market. (http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=893)
Now that major companies like Warner recognize the situation and give up on HD DVD, that 5 about 6 HD Media sold are Blu-Ray, how could we reasonabily think that it could be reversed ?
I think we can all agree that it isn't practical to have two different format of HD Media. It brings annoyances for everyone in the chain: publishers, manufacturer, retailers and consumers.
Our difference is in our idea of what makes a format better than an other.
For me HD is all about approaching the quality of the original content. So it's the potential fidelity of the content which matters the most.
The maximum video bitrate for HD DVD is 28 mbits/s, for Blu-Ray it's 40 mbits/s, about 40% more. So Blu-ray > HD DVD.
I proceeded to make a little count yesterday. The first HD DVD was only 34th, while the first premier Blu-Ray was second. Roughly a first of the 30 first BR/DVD/HD DVD sales are Blu-ray title, so even compared to DVD, BR is doing well.
Only taking into account the BR and HD DVD, you would see BR titles in first ten places then the first HD DVD title in the 11th place.
That was before the Warner announcements starts to have a effect on sales, just wait a few weeks.
Sales of HD DVD are performing worser and worser comparatively to BR, Warner only took notice of the reality and acted accordingly.
From now, the demise of HD DVD can only accelerate, last studios ignoring BR won't be able to continue doing so for long I mean how could you explain to your shareholder you'll significantly reduce your profits for supporting the format the market excluded ? Too bad for those studios that are to strongly tied with HD DVD.
MKULTRA was the code name for a CIA mind-control research program that began in 1950.
Some excerpts from the wikipedia article:
LSD and other drugs were usually administered without the subject's knowledge and informed consent.
(About experiments in Canada by Donald Ewen Cameron)
His "driving" experiments consisted of putting subjects into drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. His experiments were typically carried out on patients who had entered the institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postpartum depression, many of whom suffered permanently from his actions.[18] His treatments resulted in victims' incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents [...] The Canadian government was fully aware of this, and had later provided another $500,000 in funding to continue the experiments
An alternative explanation of the Two-slits experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-slit_experiment) could be possible with the aether thing.
The experience show that particles are found to interfer with each other, despite being sent separately in time. We can observer interference fringes, like if particules passed simultaneously through both slits.
If the particles somehow modify the aether, the ather would retain the information corresponding to the path of a particle, and in turn infer on the path on future particle which would also modify the aether etc..
* Wii development cost aren't significantly higher than gamecube ones, and significantly lower than the other current consoles.
* The screendigest graphic is totally false and give a false picture of the market.
It seems as Xbox 360 PS3 and Wii were released simultaneously, which is of course false. And the ratio between teir marketshares is untrue as well.
On a correct graphic, Wii market share would look a lot more spectacular, in term of absolute market share and of progression. The forecast wouldn't be credible at all.
It's like the incorrectness was intentionnaly introduced in the graph to make the forecast seem realizable.
All in all, the points made seem to apply to the Xbox360 and the PS3, definitively not to the Wii.
Maybe as the article suggests Sony and MS are in a dead-end (IMHO it's doubtful), that's definitely not the case of Nintendo.
Here we have 8 dual-processor server with two opteron 265 each, 2 dual-processor servers with opteron 244. Everything was built by a local integrator using good "made-for-servers" components like tyan motherboards..
These servers are used in different sites, often under suboptimal conditions, some of them had to run with a 35+ C ambient temperature for several days.
We haven't seen the beginning of a hardware problem with any of these servers.
Yes sample is small compared to yours, but i'm impressed. I must be terribly lucky if you had a 60% problem rate and I had 0%.
The article doesn't imply that France Telecom is offering a 2,5 Gbits/s Internet connexion, just that the link that connects the customer to the FT network is 2,5 Gbits/s. FT uses this link to provide Phone, TV, Internet. The article does not say what is the Internet bandwidth that is offered to the customer.
According to the news, the new service is offered in a few select cities of Paris Region. In fact, the service isn't commercially available. It's only a pilot experiment, only about one hundred of people are concerned.
I would understand if the parent was modded as "funny", but insightful
Any decent 32 CRT HDTV set can really show you the difference..
We should replace some other insightful flag by another term
"popular misconception, well-known cliché, uninformed opinion that make slashdotter confident with their preconceived ideas, false truth or maybe interesting ideas, who knows.."
Your CD player couldn't play your vynils. Your HD-DVD/BD player will play your DVDs
This time ascending compatibility is here, much less pain for this transition.
You won't have to rebuy your DVD, you'll be able to enjoy them as if HD-DVD/BD never existed.
DVDs will be available for a long time and buy the time movies aren't published on DVD and you have to replace your DVD player, BD player won't cost much. (HD-DVD format will have died by this time)
The only negative I see is that we have two competing ormats, I just hope that HD-DVD is quickly eradicated.
Think of what the car market would be like if when you sell your used car it could be used by the next owner the same time as it if was new, and after he exhausts it it could resell it and for the next owner it would be as good as new..
That's a the major difference between used cars and used videogames markets: used games are not really used.
Yes of course, they should use quake3 engine, and all these many OSS engines that are able to take advantage of advanced features of shuch trivial pieces of hardware as Xbox 360 GPU or Cell. And are bundled with tools that allow designers and art staff to be immensely productive.
I have even better ideas:
* developpers enslaving
* off-shoring to China, Bengladesh
We should have to pay more than 10 $ for these games that costs millions to make, isn't it ?
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While Sony did invest much to make BR a success, many other companies like Panasonic and Philips worked together to create Blu-ray and perceive royalties.
And what about AVC, VC-1, Dolby TrueHD etc..
Here is the Blu-Ray association board of directors:
Apple Computer, Inc.
Dell Inc.
Hewlett Packard Company
Hitachi, Ltd.
LG Electronics Inc.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Pioneer Corporation
Royal Philips Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
TDK Corporation
Thomson Multimedia
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney Pictures
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Titles that will use the features like the Internet connectivity will be compatible with players who do not support Internet, only without the internet connectivity.
Any future title should be compatible with any current player, as long as it support the advanced encryption which is already present in some titles.
Since the introduction of Blu-Ray, it consistently won marketshare from HD-DVD, it went from zilch to two-thirds of the market during 2007.
According to Nielsen, for the week ending January 20th, Blu-Ray disc sales accounted for 83% of the high definition market. (http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=893)
Now that major companies like Warner recognize the situation and give up on HD DVD, that 5 about 6 HD Media sold are Blu-Ray, how could we reasonabily think that it could be reversed ?
Les jeux sont faits.
I think we can all agree that it isn't practical to have two different format of HD Media. It brings annoyances for everyone in the chain: publishers, manufacturer, retailers and consumers.
Our difference is in our idea of what makes a format better than an other.
For me HD is all about approaching the quality of the original content. So it's the potential fidelity of the content which matters the most.
The maximum video bitrate for HD DVD is 28 mbits/s, for Blu-Ray it's 40 mbits/s, about 40% more. So Blu-ray > HD DVD.
Look at the amazon's best DVD sales ranking that combines DVD, BR, HD DVD.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/dvd/ref=pd_dp_ts_d_1
It's updated realtime.
I proceeded to make a little count yesterday.
The first HD DVD was only 34th, while the first premier Blu-Ray was second.
Roughly a first of the 30 first BR/DVD/HD DVD sales are Blu-ray title, so even compared to DVD, BR is doing well.
Only taking into account the BR and HD DVD, you would see BR titles in first ten places then the first HD DVD title in the 11th place.
That was before the Warner announcements starts to have a effect on sales, just wait a few weeks.
Sales of HD DVD are performing worser and worser comparatively to BR, Warner only took notice of the reality and acted accordingly.
From now, the demise of HD DVD can only accelerate, last studios ignoring BR won't be able to continue doing so for long I mean how could you explain to your shareholder you'll significantly reduce your profits for supporting the format the market excluded ? Too bad for those studios that are to strongly tied with HD DVD.
"Paramount's current plan is to continue to support the HD DVD format."
They denied that they could drop HD DVD immediately, but this semi-denial doesn't conflict the idea they could support both formats.
What matters here is the relative value of a wii sale in Europe and in the US.
The yen being weak or strong has nothing to do with it.
Ouch
Here in France we can find the Wii without any difficulty.
As we all know the dollar is particulary weak and/or the Euro is particulary strong.
The Wii is sold 250 inc. V.A.T. = 209 exc. V.A.T. which translates to 306 $.
Perhaps Nintendo prefers to sell the same thing for 55 $ more and accordingly prioritizes shipments to Europe.
MKULTRA was the code name for a CIA mind-control research program that began in 1950.
Some excerpts from the wikipedia article:
LSD and other drugs were usually administered without the subject's knowledge and informed consent.
(About experiments in Canada by Donald Ewen Cameron)
His "driving" experiments consisted of putting subjects into drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. His experiments were typically carried out on patients who had entered the institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postpartum depression, many of whom suffered permanently from his actions.[18] His treatments resulted in victims' incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents
[...]
The Canadian government was fully aware of this, and had later provided another $500,000 in funding to continue the experiments
Maybe the photography reveals the design of the top-secret propeller..
Or maybe other countries are fed with false intelligence.
An alternative explanation of the Two-slits experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-slit_experiment) could be possible with the aether thing.
The experience show that particles are found to interfer with each other, despite being sent separately in time. We can observer interference fringes, like if particules passed simultaneously through both slits.
If the particles somehow modify the aether, the ather would retain the information corresponding to the path of a particle, and in turn infer on the path on future particle which would also modify the aether etc..
* Nintendo don't loose money on Wii hardware.
* Wii development cost aren't significantly higher than gamecube ones, and significantly lower than the other current consoles.
* The screendigest graphic is totally false and give a false picture of the market.
It seems as Xbox 360 PS3 and Wii were released simultaneously, which is of course false.
And the ratio between teir marketshares is untrue as well.
On a correct graphic, Wii market share would look a lot more spectacular, in term of absolute market share and of progression. The forecast wouldn't be credible at all.
It's like the incorrectness was intentionnaly introduced in the graph to make the forecast seem realizable.
All in all, the points made seem to apply to the Xbox360 and the PS3, definitively not to the Wii.
Maybe as the article suggests Sony and MS are in a dead-end (IMHO it's doubtful), that's definitely not the case of Nintendo.
From which manufacturer these systems came from ?
Here we have 8 dual-processor server with two opteron 265 each, 2 dual-processor servers with opteron 244. Everything was built by a local integrator using good "made-for-servers" components like tyan motherboards..
These servers are used in different sites, often under suboptimal conditions, some of them had to run with a 35+ C ambient temperature for several days.
We haven't seen the beginning of a hardware problem with any of these servers.
Yes sample is small compared to yours, but i'm impressed. I must be terribly lucky if you had a 60% problem rate and I had 0%.
The article doesn't imply that France Telecom is offering a 2,5 Gbits/s Internet connexion, just that the link that connects the customer to the FT network is 2,5 Gbits/s.
l ists/press_releases/CP_old/cp060117.html
FT uses this link to provide Phone, TV, Internet. The article does not say what is the Internet bandwidth that is offered to the customer.
According to the news, the new service is offered in a few select cities of Paris Region.
In fact, the service isn't commercially available. It's only a pilot experiment, only about one hundred of people are concerned.
And finally this is old news, from january:
http://www.francetelecom.com/en/financials/journa
I would understand if the parent was modded as "funny", but insightful
Any decent 32 CRT HDTV set can really show you the difference..
We should replace some other insightful flag by another term
"popular misconception, well-known cliché, uninformed opinion that make slashdotter confident with their preconceived ideas, false truth or maybe interesting ideas, who knows.."
that should do it !
Your CD player couldn't play your vynils. Your HD-DVD/BD player will play your DVDs
This time ascending compatibility is here, much less pain for this transition.
You won't have to rebuy your DVD, you'll be able to enjoy them as if HD-DVD/BD never existed.
DVDs will be available for a long time and buy the time movies aren't published on DVD and you have to replace your DVD player, BD player won't cost much. (HD-DVD format will have died by this time)
The only negative I see is that we have two competing ormats, I just hope that HD-DVD is quickly eradicated.
Nintendo games are especially balanced, by design weaker player are better treated than in you typical game.
For example on gamecube, when you are last in supermariokart, you always get bunses that help you much.
In super mario party, random events help level the playfield a lot, and the minigames, which are not very technical, can be played by most non-gamers.
I second this recommendation, these speakers have one of the best sound amongst the sub-100$ earphones with the grado.
They are more neutral (so more hi-fidelity) with a frequency response a lot more linear than Koss Porta Pro or AKG 26 P which are bass oriented.
And they're very comfortable.
The downside is that with such a better fidelity, badly encoded mp3 will be unbearable.
Think of what the car market would be like if when you sell your used car it could be used by the next owner the same time as it if was new, and after he exhausts it it could resell it and for the next owner it would be as good as new..
That's a the major difference between used cars and used videogames markets: used games are not really used.
The total lack of success that games like final fantasy enjoy show that gamers don't care about graphics.
What brilliant thoughts, please continue your brainstorming.
Yes of course, they should use quake3 engine, and all these many OSS engines that are able to take advantage of advanced features of shuch trivial pieces of hardware as Xbox 360 GPU or Cell. And are bundled with tools that allow designers and art staff to be immensely productive.
I have even better ideas:
* developpers enslaving
* off-shoring to China, Bengladesh
We should have to pay more than 10 $ for these games that costs millions to make, isn't it ?
Of course, this is why we find only the worst games in the used market.
We won't find such games as Resident Evil 4, Halo 2, Prince of Persia 3, Metroid Prime 2..
I guess it's because of the developpers if there is a used market, they should make games that are enjoyable for an infinite amount of time.
The downside is that we would only buy one game which each console, but it's not our problem, isn't it ?
Gimme a break.. Yes..
On the other side, we could say that used games buyers are cheap...
You definitely can't compare sales of used cars and sales of used videogames, I explained it above:
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