My argument was specifically about HDTV electronics marketing price curves.
The digital TV supply curve is, as you say, down quite a bit.
And specifically, I chose the 1080p 42" HDTV set due to personal product research - 50" or above is too big (based on my family, brother has a 72" set, sister has a 60" set - both told me that they wish they'd bought the 42" set in retrospect, and after seeing the images, and how it impacts their houses (in Santa Barbara, my brother-in-law is an actor). And what I saw in looking at them in various stores.
Based on quality and game consoles as well - 1080p is the most stable version that will probably become the baseline version around 2010 to 2012.
This is also based on feedback from movie watching friends of mine who are Platinum Lifetime and Lifetime members of Cinema Seattle, most of whom are into geek things.
Thus, based on all this feedback, my prediction is for the market supply pricing curve of the 42" HDTV set. Not a digital TV set capable of displaying 480i resolution on a 42" aspect.
A number of my friends are artists, some solo acts, some in bands.
When they make their own CDs and DVDs and sell them at performances, they get much more than if they use a label.
And nowadays you can make a Facebook or MySpace group for the band and tell everyone where you'll be playing, allowing you to estimate venue size and sellout spaces, and even arrange housing and food for touring.
A standard 1080p digital HDTV set of 42 inches is still around $950 to $1200 USD on tigerdirect and other similar sites.
When the consumer electronics market cycle drops the cost down to around $300 per set, you will see wide adoption of HDTV.
Classic electronics marketing 101 (and, yes, this is information from a literal marketing course I took as part of a Business Management degree with a core of Sales and Marketing). Sure, you'll still be able to spend $2000 for a fancy set, but it's not until the price point drops below $500 for the baseline standard unit that the curve flattens, and it's at the $300 level that you can expect 50 percent adoption rate.
This should intersect with the curve around February 2009, which is about when the US market will be forced to switch over to HDTV as well.
So, unless you really need to spend as much as a new Mac OS Tiger laptop to be first in line, just wait a bit.
In the late 1970s I was on ARPANET when I was a student at SFU (in fact, I was the Computer Science Rep to Student Council there, running on a slogan of A Rabbit On Every Streetcorner, as a feminist candidate).
I claim prior art. I advertised that I wanted to sell one of my textbooks when I dropped a course.
If they end up making more money off this album than if they had released it through traditional means I would say that would be an attractive means of distribution.
True.
The average beginning artist makes somewhere between 1 and 4 cents per CD (usually 0.01 to 0.02 USD). An established artist can get around $2.00 per CD.
If they got $8.00 per download they were wildly successful, even if 0.01 UDS (1 cent) was the cost to distribute it.
At the recent 50th Anniversary of Medical Genetics here at the UW, multiple presenters, researchers who flew in from around the world, spent a lot of time trying to tell Windows not to reboot, just so they could use Powerpoint to show their presentations.
Microsoft had, of course, downloaded updates and refused to stop asking if it could reboot.
On a laptop....
Which part of "Wait until I shut down my laptop at the end of the day" don't they get?
Actually, you can pay some guy in china to have his team of players read it for you.
But first you have to ignore all the group invites from all the other people trying to sell you something, and hope that the level 40 elf hunters don't grief your starting level characters....
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My laptop cost $400 and plays all the EA games quite well.
You were saying?
I'm sorry, you've just been declared an illegal combatant, and will be tortured for the next two years even though you're an American citizen.
... bad luck that, no?
At the end, you'll confess to being a terrorist.
Of course, you didn't do it, but now that you've given up your rights, it doesn't really matter what the Truth is, does it?
And all because a person of Islamic ancestry incorrectly dialed your cell phone
The Wii translates the actions for either the old controllers into the new forms, or the new controllers into the old forms.
It's not a big deal.
It isn't just US citizens who are impacted by this - it's the whole world.
And if you aren't one of the original users of a certain particle accelerator, you owe a whole heck of a lot of money.
Good thing I was on ARPA*NET when it was founded.
Only two are Windows.
Most are Linux. Two are Macs.
And a friend of mine watches the BBC TV shows that show there online (she lives in Seattle, and watches shows they don't show on BBC America).
Digital TV does not mean you have to buy an HDTV.
My argument was specifically about HDTV electronics marketing price curves.
The digital TV supply curve is, as you say, down quite a bit.
And specifically, I chose the 1080p 42" HDTV set due to personal product research - 50" or above is too big (based on my family, brother has a 72" set, sister has a 60" set - both told me that they wish they'd bought the 42" set in retrospect, and after seeing the images, and how it impacts their houses (in Santa Barbara, my brother-in-law is an actor). And what I saw in looking at them in various stores.
Based on quality and game consoles as well - 1080p is the most stable version that will probably become the baseline version around 2010 to 2012.
This is also based on feedback from movie watching friends of mine who are Platinum Lifetime and Lifetime members of Cinema Seattle, most of whom are into geek things.
Thus, based on all this feedback, my prediction is for the market supply pricing curve of the 42" HDTV set. Not a digital TV set capable of displaying 480i resolution on a 42" aspect.
But that's only because MSFT has a monopoly on document formats.
Change that and we'll change our behavior.
Not true.
A number of my friends are artists, some solo acts, some in bands.
When they make their own CDs and DVDs and sell them at performances, they get much more than if they use a label.
And nowadays you can make a Facebook or MySpace group for the band and tell everyone where you'll be playing, allowing you to estimate venue size and sellout spaces, and even arrange housing and food for touring.
It's the 21st Century.
That would be a better title for the article.
In a perfect world, one could get enough data points to do such a thing.
We don't live in that world.
Exactly, the branded "luxury" status allows them to restrict quantity and sell the same basic unit at a markup.
... exactly.
Somewhere in 2009, you will see basic 1080p 42 inch HDTV sets selling for around $300. Basic electronics supply curve in marketing.
How's that $2000 laptop you bought back in 2000 selling for nowadays
A standard 1080p digital HDTV set of 42 inches is still around $950 to $1200 USD on tigerdirect and other similar sites.
When the consumer electronics market cycle drops the cost down to around $300 per set, you will see wide adoption of HDTV.
Classic electronics marketing 101 (and, yes, this is information from a literal marketing course I took as part of a Business Management degree with a core of Sales and Marketing). Sure, you'll still be able to spend $2000 for a fancy set, but it's not until the price point drops below $500 for the baseline standard unit that the curve flattens, and it's at the $300 level that you can expect 50 percent adoption rate.
This should intersect with the curve around February 2009, which is about when the US market will be forced to switch over to HDTV as well.
So, unless you really need to spend as much as a new Mac OS Tiger laptop to be first in line, just wait a bit.
In the late 1970s I was on ARPANET when I was a student at SFU (in fact, I was the Computer Science Rep to Student Council there, running on a slogan of A Rabbit On Every Streetcorner, as a feminist candidate).
I claim prior art. I advertised that I wanted to sell one of my textbooks when I dropped a course.
RIAA owes me money.
If they end up making more money off this album than if they had released it through traditional means I would say that would be an attractive means of distribution.
True.
The average beginning artist makes somewhere between 1 and 4 cents per CD (usually 0.01 to 0.02 USD). An established artist can get around $2.00 per CD.
If they got $8.00 per download they were wildly successful, even if 0.01 UDS (1 cent) was the cost to distribute it.
Just do the very very simple math.
And then the artist gets half the cost of the DVD or CD on average.
But if it's name your cost, some people might have thought free.
Besides, even free is not free - you pay a TAX for music copying and artist recompense on every blank CD-R/W or DVD-R/W you buy.
Oh, that web page. I forgot it still existed. Think I updated that last century.
The small boy in that is now 16 and has his own slashdot account.
I agree, she's a far better use of bandwidth!
Pay no attention to those alt.binaries. subscriptions.
... yowzaa!
Oops. Too late. I found alt.binaries.furries
When it was just used for posting news items, and some experimental electronic music we generated at the labs at SFU and UBC ...
I'll never forget the day my dad bought a nes for me and my bro and sis, and we had so much fun! (Duck Hunt was fun too, hehe)
There's a new version of Duck Hunt out for the Wii, you can see it listed online at any GameStop store.
And Ian thinks he's getting Super Smash Brothers ... boy will he be surprised!
Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy is more of a manga than a comic book, IMHO.
Based on having read it.
It's pretty lame, mind you.
At the recent 50th Anniversary of Medical Genetics here at the UW, multiple presenters, researchers who flew in from around the world, spent a lot of time trying to tell Windows not to reboot, just so they could use Powerpoint to show their presentations.
...
Microsoft had, of course, downloaded updates and refused to stop asking if it could reboot.
On a laptop.
Which part of "Wait until I shut down my laptop at the end of the day" don't they get?
Actually, you can pay some guy in china to have his team of players read it for you.
....
But first you have to ignore all the group invites from all the other people trying to sell you something, and hope that the level 40 elf hunters don't grief your starting level characters
I was wondering what they did.
Great, now I have to uninstall all the versions I have on my laptop.