Actually a middle class exists in China. Except, they are drunk with their new found wealth. They are very patriotic and very government friendly. Why rock the boat and risk losing all that wealth and societal status when you can continue to be a business man or engineer or a lawyer and make lots of money.
With the PS3, in order to get the lossless sound, you need a receiver that can process 5.1/7.1 PCM audio through HDMI. Do you have one of those? Also, you need to set the audio output on the PS3 to Linear PCM instead of bitstream. I got a huge leap in quality on movies that have lossless sound with my setup.
With Blockbuster online membership, you can get BDs online and then exchange them for BDs at the store also. You cannot do this with netflix. For $12/month, I get about 8-9 BDs per month - can't beat that.
My first DVD player (non-progressive scan) - Sony S300 was $400 in November 1998. My second DVD player (progressive scan) - Toshiba SD9200 was $700 in 2001. My first BD player was a PS3 that I bought in 2/2007 for $499. PS3 is my favorite. Now that prices are coming down to about $200, BD is making good progress toward mass market. Comparing a $30 DVD player - commoditized technology to BD is ridiculous.
Give me an example of a movie where SPDIF did not work. Most movies have a lossy surround track that is available for playback through SPDIF. In some movies it is Dolby Digital and in some it is DTS.
How can a company start to stress the connection when the connection is not there. We are not talking about the backbone. We are talking about the last mile.
Wow!! Do you realize that applications like You Tube are not stagnant and static. 10 years ago they did not exist. Yet, today they do. Today, you cannot stream 1080p video. In the future, if bandwidth increases, you can. Today, you have to go to a local provider for live TV access. In the future, IPTV through open internet may be a true alternative with no compromise HD quality.
You never mentioned what size your display is. While I agree with you that if you have a good upscaling player like the PS3 and a good 1080p TV like the one I used to own (61" JVC HD-ILA 1080p RPTV) can make normal DVDs look pretty good, once you graduate to a 1080p projector and run a 120" screen and watch it from 12' away, Bluray beats the crap out of the upscaled DVD. I have the Live Free or Die Hard Bluray and on my 120" it just pops. DVDs are a groaner for me now. I try to rent as many Blurays as possible.
For music, iTunes is the 2nd largest store in the US. Not just online but online+offline. By the end of this year, iTunes will become the largest store by displacing Walmart.
For TV shows and Movies, iTunes is not a big player, but it can become a big player in the rental business by positioning the iTunes/iPod model as well as the AppleTV model.
I have an AppleTV and love the new software update. If marketed correctly, AppleTV sales can sky rocket. More movies are rented than bought. So, rentals are ideal for online downloads. I don't recommend online downloads for buying movies though.
Actually, the main reason for that is the BOGO (Buy one get one). Previously it was for HD-DVD and now it is for BD. However, it will be interesting to see the stats when no specials for either format is going on.
I have a dual monitor setup (the second monitor is actually my HDTV). I use eyeTV and Front Row (I have to make the second monitor my primary for frontrow though - I wish Apple would fix this). I can also use Quicktime in full screen mode in my second monitor.
It is illegal to sell a TV with an NTSC tuner in it if it does not also have an ATSC tuner. If a store is selling it that way, they are breaking the law. This is the same reason that you cannot buy a VCR with an NTSC only tuner in it. In fact you cannot buy a VCR with NTSC tuner in it now a days.
You can show your finger to the HOA since they don't have the power to stop you from putting up an antenna. It is your right under federal law. FCC gives home owners the rights to install antenna to receive TV channels. I have one in my HOA neighborhood and nobody has questioned me.
Check the following link
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/consumerdish. html
My brother lives in Southern San Jose and he put up an outdoor antenna on a mast on his roof. He gets about 25 channels in HD reliably. He has a eyeTV Hybrid connected to his iMac 24" as well as a Sony HD-DVR. Both work great.
I have a similar setup in Kansas City and I get about 8 channels in HD.
Exactly. Cable is way overrated. Especially since OTA-HD looks so good. You have so much freedom with it. It works with Sony HD-DVRs, built-in tuners from HDTVs, HD-Tivos, USB TV tuners, network TV tuners like HDHomeRun, PCI card tv tuners, plenty of software to record to HDs. No broadcast flag. No mess no fuss. Just need to live in a place that is close enough to the towers to get HD broadcasts. http://www.antennaweb.org/ is your friend
Real world experience tells something different. When people hear about Bluray - they don't know anything and they want to learn. When they hear about HD-DVD, they think it is a HD version of DVD and if they have a DVD player and a HDTV, then they can get HD-DVD. Go see some of the comments on merchant sites like Amazon. A lot of people have bought HD-DVD versions of movies and then complained when they could not play it on their DVD players connected to their HDTVs. There is no such confusion with Bluray. In this case, the different name actually helped.
I refuse to pay even $2/month for ad supported TV. I love the 8 OTA-HD channels that I get at my home using just a small antenna. I have a HD-DVR and watch shows like CSI-Miami, 24, House, Criminal Minds, Numbers, etc without paying a dime to anyone. All in glorious 1080i or 720p HD and no extra compression. Now, why would I give that up to pay some sleazy company like Comcast.
Actually, if a "Corporation" is a person, with all the rights and responsibilities. If you ever watch the documentary "The Corporation" it will be explained to your in all the gory detail. A corporation can be sued and can sue other people. So, in the letter of the law, a corporation is a person and therefore singular.
You have not been searching right. Sony's BDP-S300 (S301 in Costco) sells for about $450. Panasonic's second generation bluray is $499. PS3 is now $499. Samsung's second generation is about $599. The first generation samsungs and philips can be found for under $400 in some places.
The price is steadily coming down.
While I agree that Apple stock is going to go up and their sales are going to go up, I disagree with your calculations. You are assuming that iPod market share and their units are going to stay constant. They might actually drop a little because many of the iPhone customers could be buying iPods if not for the iPhone. So, no everything is constant.
Contrary to most people that think a singular way of representing floating point speed is FLOP, it is FLOPS because FLOPS is not plural. FLOPS is Floating Point Operations Per Second. So, I chuckle everytime I read 1 PETAFLOP. Guys, just turn off your singular/plural alarm and say with me 1 and only 1 PETAFLOPS.
Why is this even news? This is old news!! AT&T rolled out U-Verse to mixed reviews in San Antonio last year. Since then they have expanded it to several markets including Kansas City, Houston, San Jose, St. Louis, etc. They are adding thousands of customers per week. Service is still getting mixed results. Suddenly, you guys are talking as if this is something new.
The service uses VDSL + Private network for TV, IPTV DVR from Motorola (initially Tatung). The current limitation is only one HD program can be streamed at a time. Four SD programs can be streamed at a time. The service allocates up to 6 Mbps for Data. You only need one DVR at home and it can record up to four streams right now. Then other set top boxes around the house can be used to watch the programs recorded in the single DVR. Since I rely on OTA and don't pay for cable, this is not really news for me. The only thing that is exciting for me is that when U-verse comes near where I live, I could have the option of ditching voice line and get just VDSL.
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Actually a middle class exists in China. Except, they are drunk with their new found wealth. They are very patriotic and very government friendly. Why rock the boat and risk losing all that wealth and societal status when you can continue to be a business man or engineer or a lawyer and make lots of money.
With the PS3, in order to get the lossless sound, you need a receiver that can process 5.1/7.1 PCM audio through HDMI. Do you have one of those? Also, you need to set the audio output on the PS3 to Linear PCM instead of bitstream. I got a huge leap in quality on movies that have lossless sound with my setup.
With Blockbuster online membership, you can get BDs online and then exchange them for BDs at the store also. You cannot do this with netflix. For $12/month, I get about 8-9 BDs per month - can't beat that.
My first DVD player (non-progressive scan) - Sony S300 was $400 in November 1998. My second DVD player (progressive scan) - Toshiba SD9200 was $700 in 2001. My first BD player was a PS3 that I bought in 2/2007 for $499. PS3 is my favorite. Now that prices are coming down to about $200, BD is making good progress toward mass market. Comparing a $30 DVD player - commoditized technology to BD is ridiculous.
Ditto.. Die Hard 4 - DTS-HD-Ma rocks!!
Give me an example of a movie where SPDIF did not work. Most movies have a lossy surround track that is available for playback through SPDIF. In some movies it is Dolby Digital and in some it is DTS.
How can a company start to stress the connection when the connection is not there. We are not talking about the backbone. We are talking about the last mile.
Wow!! Do you realize that applications like You Tube are not stagnant and static. 10 years ago they did not exist. Yet, today they do. Today, you cannot stream 1080p video. In the future, if bandwidth increases, you can. Today, you have to go to a local provider for live TV access. In the future, IPTV through open internet may be a true alternative with no compromise HD quality.
You never mentioned what size your display is. While I agree with you that if you have a good upscaling player like the PS3 and a good 1080p TV like the one I used to own (61" JVC HD-ILA 1080p RPTV) can make normal DVDs look pretty good, once you graduate to a 1080p projector and run a 120" screen and watch it from 12' away, Bluray beats the crap out of the upscaled DVD. I have the Live Free or Die Hard Bluray and on my 120" it just pops. DVDs are a groaner for me now. I try to rent as many Blurays as possible.
For music, iTunes is the 2nd largest store in the US. Not just online but online+offline. By the end of this year, iTunes will become the largest store by displacing Walmart. For TV shows and Movies, iTunes is not a big player, but it can become a big player in the rental business by positioning the iTunes/iPod model as well as the AppleTV model. I have an AppleTV and love the new software update. If marketed correctly, AppleTV sales can sky rocket. More movies are rented than bought. So, rentals are ideal for online downloads. I don't recommend online downloads for buying movies though.
What are you talking about? Apple is in the BD board, not in the HD-DVD board.
Actually, the main reason for that is the BOGO (Buy one get one). Previously it was for HD-DVD and now it is for BD. However, it will be interesting to see the stats when no specials for either format is going on.
I have a dual monitor setup (the second monitor is actually my HDTV). I use eyeTV and Front Row (I have to make the second monitor my primary for frontrow though - I wish Apple would fix this). I can also use Quicktime in full screen mode in my second monitor.
Where have you been? For a while now, Quicktime basic has full screen capability. Also, this will probably increase the sale of AppleTVs.
It is illegal to sell a TV with an NTSC tuner in it if it does not also have an ATSC tuner. If a store is selling it that way, they are breaking the law. This is the same reason that you cannot buy a VCR with an NTSC only tuner in it. In fact you cannot buy a VCR with NTSC tuner in it now a days.
You can show your finger to the HOA since they don't have the power to stop you from putting up an antenna. It is your right under federal law. FCC gives home owners the rights to install antenna to receive TV channels. I have one in my HOA neighborhood and nobody has questioned me. Check the following link http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/consumerdish. html
My brother lives in Southern San Jose and he put up an outdoor antenna on a mast on his roof. He gets about 25 channels in HD reliably. He has a eyeTV Hybrid connected to his iMac 24" as well as a Sony HD-DVR. Both work great. I have a similar setup in Kansas City and I get about 8 channels in HD.
Exactly. Cable is way overrated. Especially since OTA-HD looks so good. You have so much freedom with it. It works with Sony HD-DVRs, built-in tuners from HDTVs, HD-Tivos, USB TV tuners, network TV tuners like HDHomeRun, PCI card tv tuners, plenty of software to record to HDs. No broadcast flag. No mess no fuss. Just need to live in a place that is close enough to the towers to get HD broadcasts. http://www.antennaweb.org/ is your friend
Real world experience tells something different. When people hear about Bluray - they don't know anything and they want to learn. When they hear about HD-DVD, they think it is a HD version of DVD and if they have a DVD player and a HDTV, then they can get HD-DVD. Go see some of the comments on merchant sites like Amazon. A lot of people have bought HD-DVD versions of movies and then complained when they could not play it on their DVD players connected to their HDTVs. There is no such confusion with Bluray. In this case, the different name actually helped.
I refuse to pay even $2/month for ad supported TV. I love the 8 OTA-HD channels that I get at my home using just a small antenna. I have a HD-DVR and watch shows like CSI-Miami, 24, House, Criminal Minds, Numbers, etc without paying a dime to anyone. All in glorious 1080i or 720p HD and no extra compression. Now, why would I give that up to pay some sleazy company like Comcast.
Actually, if a "Corporation" is a person, with all the rights and responsibilities. If you ever watch the documentary "The Corporation" it will be explained to your in all the gory detail. A corporation can be sued and can sue other people. So, in the letter of the law, a corporation is a person and therefore singular.
You have not been searching right. Sony's BDP-S300 (S301 in Costco) sells for about $450. Panasonic's second generation bluray is $499. PS3 is now $499. Samsung's second generation is about $599. The first generation samsungs and philips can be found for under $400 in some places. The price is steadily coming down.
While I agree that Apple stock is going to go up and their sales are going to go up, I disagree with your calculations. You are assuming that iPod market share and their units are going to stay constant. They might actually drop a little because many of the iPhone customers could be buying iPods if not for the iPhone. So, no everything is constant.
Contrary to most people that think a singular way of representing floating point speed is FLOP, it is FLOPS because FLOPS is not plural. FLOPS is Floating Point Operations Per Second. So, I chuckle everytime I read 1 PETAFLOP. Guys, just turn off your singular/plural alarm and say with me 1 and only 1 PETAFLOPS.
Why is this even news? This is old news!! AT&T rolled out U-Verse to mixed reviews in San Antonio last year. Since then they have expanded it to several markets including Kansas City, Houston, San Jose, St. Louis, etc. They are adding thousands of customers per week. Service is still getting mixed results. Suddenly, you guys are talking as if this is something new. The service uses VDSL + Private network for TV, IPTV DVR from Motorola (initially Tatung). The current limitation is only one HD program can be streamed at a time. Four SD programs can be streamed at a time. The service allocates up to 6 Mbps for Data. You only need one DVR at home and it can record up to four streams right now. Then other set top boxes around the house can be used to watch the programs recorded in the single DVR. Since I rely on OTA and don't pay for cable, this is not really news for me. The only thing that is exciting for me is that when U-verse comes near where I live, I could have the option of ditching voice line and get just VDSL.