You might want to check the available plans that are around.
For example, Snap will provide you with a phone line and 255GB for $115 per month, for another $30 you get 555GB
Vodafone will give you 120GB with phoneline for $130, Telecom is cheaper still
The amount of new features added via the playstation firmware upgrades far outweight losing the OtherOS "feature" which virtually no one in the grand scheme of things actually used.
You quote a two year old article and still treat it as current? The licence reason was solved a long time ago as well. Jobs doesn't want blu-ray because of iTunes, that is all.
So, what is your point. The PS3 I had before 2.1, and the PS3 other consumers had at that time didn't support Divx, they didn't until Sony released v2.1 of the firmware.
TV shows cost much, much less to produce than movies, but compare $15-20 for a movie DVD vs. $40-$50 for a TV show season. I know that one is 2 hours vs. the other being 30-40 hours, but margins on selling a TV season DVD are orders of magnitudes higher than for movie DVD. A TV series on DVD/Blu-Ray will be no longer than 16 hours, 20-23 episodes a season, 42 minutes an episode
They have a 6.5% share of the worldwide market after one full year.... they maybe are not in the lead but they are doing good enough to bumb Motorola's smartphone sales to 4th. No they haven't, there was over one billion phones sold last year, they haven't sold over 65 million phones.
Unless you are talking about Smartphones, then you are wrong again. There were 77.3 million Symbian based phones sold last year, without allowing for all the other manufacturers they haven't done 6.5%
UMD sells so well everyone but Sony itself has stopped producing content for it. Yup, thats going great. No they haven't, they still produce a lot of games on UMD
Try getting a visa with a camera... I was there on a vacation with a little SLR and had quite a hard time... It wasn't even digital! What do you mean? There is no issue getting a visa if you have a camera
Even Luddites would have trouble setting up a tripod without a miliary/conscript intervention.
That's only because they want a tip for taking your picture
Both formats have slow booting players right now though. When you turn on your HD or Blu-Ray player, it will be at around a minute and a half before you are watching the movie because of how slow the players are to first boot up, then to actually load the movie. This problem is still there even on the third-gen HD-DVD players that are out now (I have the Toshiba 1080p HD-DVD player that came out last month ~ $320 on Amazon). My PS3 doesn't have this issue, the movies start up quite quickly.
Does that count sales of PS3? Because if it does then I'd say a lot of people who own Blu-Ray players either have no idea that they do, or don't have any interest in an HD video disc format at all. How can these people not know it plays Blu-Ray, it says it on the box, and include a document telling you about it
Facts: HD-DVD has blue ray by the balls when it comes to price. The price gap is just sad. Given that, HD-DVD is attracting more "casual" buyers now while blue-ray sales will stagnate as only the higher salaried people can afford blue-ray. Studios are starting to favor HD-DVD. In past months, most "release to video stores" trailers I saw mentioned the film being available on Blueray as well as traditional DVD with a few offering HD-DVD as well. As of about 3 weeks ago, the blue-ray references have dropped off sharply and now almost every movie I see an ad for is mentioning HD-DVD. Rubbish, it was a run out model, sold below cost in one market. Studios are not starting to favour HD DVD, there has been no major changes in a while now
SMS integration into the Address Book would be nice. And being able to upgrade the firmware without having to go track down a Windows box...
But I will admit they made things a hell of a lot better now with "Nokia Media Transfer". Can you no longer right click on the phone number in the address book and send an SMS? It used to work fine.
Also, it would be nice if they released a firmware update (none so far for the E65)
Sadly that disappeared after the 6310i or thereabouts, coincidentally when they decided to move to S60/EPOC/Symbian... they haven't entirely moved to S60, there is still S40 etc.
I have a Nokia 70 right now, which I'd trade for any other Phone at the drop of a hat, including for Motorola even. And that is saying something.
The interface is clunky and unfriendly, the experience is slow. Integration into Linux or Mac is a right royal bitch, all issues the 6310i never had. What issue is with OS X integration? 10.4.9 has built support for the N70. I have an E65, and yes it does crash from time to time. But the iSync always works, and the Nokia Media Transfer software works all the time as well.
Before you start complaining about the US price vs the European prices, always remember to remove the VAT from the European prices. Why can't Europeans bother to remember such a simple thing? List prices in the US do not include tax. Yeah that's right, PS3 in Ireland is 620 euro, remove 21% tax, down to 512 euro, convert to USD, $700, Amazon sells it for $499.
We do remember to remove the VAT, so why the hell are the prices so different then.
Don't know, depends on a couple of factors, like how old is the son, or do you have the password of their iTunes account?
I gave my kids a iTunes gift voucher each, but they are too young according to Apples Terms for an account so had to add them to mine, but they could understand there was issues with the iTunes store and were happy waiting until later to try again.
People who want to transfer files that they've bought to others without handing over the keys to their account. Like, for example, a father on Christmas morning who gives his son an iPod with Pirates of the Carribean loaded - but then he realizes he bought it with his own account, and the son will lose that file as soon as he syncs it with his own computer, unless he also gives his son one of his 5 "authorization" slots. You could always gift the movie and then it would be authorised under the sons account.
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You might want to check the available plans that are around. For example, Snap will provide you with a phone line and 255GB for $115 per month, for another $30 you get 555GB Vodafone will give you 120GB with phoneline for $130, Telecom is cheaper still
The amount of new features added via the playstation firmware upgrades far outweight losing the OtherOS "feature" which virtually no one in the grand scheme of things actually used.
You quote a two year old article and still treat it as current? The licence reason was solved a long time ago as well. Jobs doesn't want blu-ray because of iTunes, that is all.
So, what is your point. The PS3 I had before 2.1, and the PS3 other consumers had at that time didn't support Divx, they didn't until Sony released v2.1 of the firmware.
I think you will find that version 2.1 added Divx support
Try getting a visa with a camera... I was there on a vacation with a little SLR and had quite a hard time... It wasn't even digital!
What do you mean? There is no issue getting a visa if you have a camera Even Luddites would have trouble setting up a tripod without a miliary/conscript intervention.
That's only because they want a tip for taking your picture
My PS3 doesn't have this issue, the movies start up quite quickly.
How can these people not know it plays Blu-Ray, it says it on the box, and include a document telling you about it
Rubbish, it was a run out model, sold below cost in one market. Studios are not starting to favour HD DVD, there has been no major changes in a while now
But I will admit they made things a hell of a lot better now with "Nokia Media Transfer". Can you no longer right click on the phone number in the address book and send an SMS? It used to work fine. Also, it would be nice if they released a firmware update (none so far for the E65)
they haven't entirely moved to S60, there is still S40 etc. I have a Nokia 70 right now, which I'd trade for any other Phone at the drop of a hat, including for Motorola even. And that is saying something.
The interface is clunky and unfriendly, the experience is slow. Integration into Linux or Mac is a right royal bitch, all issues the 6310i never had.
What issue is with OS X integration? 10.4.9 has built support for the N70. I have an E65, and yes it does crash from time to time. But the iSync always works, and the Nokia Media Transfer software works all the time as well.
Are you sure, in Ireland I see a lot more Blu-Ray players around, and an equally small collection of movies in both formats.
Are you referring to the videos on the Torchwood site, or the whole site. Apart from the videos I can view the site from Ireland fine.
Don't know, depends on a couple of factors, like how old is the son, or do you have the password of their iTunes account? I gave my kids a iTunes gift voucher each, but they are too young according to Apples Terms for an account so had to add them to mine, but they could understand there was issues with the iTunes store and were happy waiting until later to try again.
I have a Belkin F5D7050UK USB 802.11g adapter, works brilliantly under OS X. I'm using the drivers from http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm