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Riccitiello: 'I hate E3 like this' {Nintendo Wii Fanboy}
Jul 20th 2008 11:20AM Personally, I'm a PS3 owner only, but I sat down with a bunch of friends (some who have gotten their last 3 Nintendo consoles on Launch Day) to watch E3 this year. He and I will both agree, the disappointment on the Nintendo side comes entirely from the lackluster announcements rather than the format of E3.
Because there is so much more mainstream press, Nintendo aimed for the casual, and not the core market. I really hope Nintendo snaps out of this "casual is the way to go" mindset before that attitude leaks onto their Zelda/Mario/etc (core) developer teams, degrading the quality of those killer titles.
Ultimately the format of E3 will affect a company like Nintendo more than most because of their take on the casual market.
How would you change Microsoft if you were Bill Gates? {Engadget}
Jun 28th 2008 8:25PM @mappy:
A unified repo is what makes Ubuntu recognize all of my hardware automagically. I don't know if any of you have noticed, but XP / Vista is a bitch to install compared to most Linux distributions nowadays.
A single place to get all software helps enforce quality control and makes the user experience much nicer. If you like searching all over the place for your software, you can go ahead and do that all by your little self.
And on topic: If I were in m$'s throne, I'd do one of two things, get them running on a Unix-based kernel or I'd simply disband the company.
IMO, they've done enough harm to the computer industry as is.
Preliminary benchmarks have VIA's Isaiah besting Intel's Atom {Engadget}
May 29th 2008 10:05AM The C7 chips can frequency scale in one clock cycle. If you measure performance per watt, VIA's offerings slap any Intel around like a bitch.
More research asserts that Blu-ray adoption isn't apt to surge soon {Engadget HD}
May 15th 2008 2:36AM @Nfinity:
Now, I know you remember how many people told you that DVD prices around this time in the VHS-DVD switchover were as much or higher than BD prices, right? BD isn't relatively high priced, HD-DVD was liquidation priced. Sony subsidized on the PS1 and PS2 before they ever subsidized on the PS3. The PlayStation is a single line of product that covers a wide area of multimedia. If it fails in one market it will succeed in another. They're used to it.
Toshiba subsidized on a FORMAT which effectively confused many consumers into thinking that new technology can be simultaneously cheap and market-healthy. History shows you otherwise. You cannot spend a ton of money developing something, and make little to nothing when you finally release it. This is what put HD-DVD 6 feet under, consumers thinking they could pay bargain prices for a premium product. It pissed off the CE companies, pissed off the stockholders, and is now pissing off people that owned HD-DVD. Because now consumers are faced with paying prices that actually support the technology they're trying to own. Before Sony and the BDA it is Toshiba's fault that you are stuck with a dead product.
All of you disgruntled fanboys, don't drag all of us down with your distorted view of reality. I'll keep buying the discs I want to watch, and the players, because it supports the tech and I get great content.
No matter what you say now, Blu-Ray beat HD-DVD (I believe TT used the words "impossible" along with "cheap" and "china" regarding the chances of that happening), you see it in millions of homes today (again TT, I remember: "Niche" and "kiddie"), you see the logo in music and movie stores, as well as in the beginning of most major DVD releases today (just like with VHS/DVD!). Did honestly forget about that? "Now on VHS and DVD!" only now its "Now on DVD and Blu-Ray disc!"
All current trends point to the exact same thing as DVD and VHS: Blu-Ray walking in the door and DVD getting up from its desk to change shifts.
Yowza: Toshiba's net profits plunge 95% thanks to HD DVD, flash prices {Engadget}
Apr 25th 2008 9:56AM @Neoprimal:
I wouldn't necessarily call it buying people off, I'd call it "ensuring their customers had the highest amount of content possible".
You can also take a look back and see that Blu outsold HDDVD every week after November '06. More PEOPLE bought Blu-Ray.
You should probably point the finger at the PS3 before pointing it at Sony buyoffs. The PS3 launch window was easily a million players in homes when HD-DVD hadn't even half the install base to begin with.
How would you change GamePark's GP2X F-200 handheld? {Engadget}
Apr 19th 2008 1:40AM int rant(){
/*
You seem to forget that all of the other things you listed (Top end graphics card, 4GB of RAM, 240GB(?) HDD, and an overclocked quad-core CPU) are only necessary because your OS (and NOT your applications) requires them to run well.
I was a "knowledgeable windows user" all the way up until my $1000 brand new built PC kept crashing every time I hovered my mouse over a video file. Reformat, Linux, and not looking back. And in switching, I'm a much more knowledgeable person regarding my hardware and software than I was before. For instance, I know you're actually going to lose some general multitasking performance with your quad core CPU, as all 4 cores will be constantly fighting over memory access. This alone is not too noticeable, and the features outweigh the benefits. You'd better hope you never run into your swap (pagefile in windows terms). All four cores will be fighting over the hard drive to load programs (or their data) into, from that same drive! This is where your 4GB (the limit on 32bit OSes) comes in and prevents the incoming disaster. What a parade. How many bottlenecks do you need? Who the hell honestly needs 4GB of RAM for a desktop machine? That top-end game you got just to show off what your PC can do? No, thats what it USED to be about. Now, apparently, it is getting your OS to run stably.
I can run on 256MB of RAM, comfortably. All of my applications run well, and fast. All of them are optimized for my system. Good luck ever opening ANY browser as fast as I can with 1/4th the RAM and 1/8th of the processing power.
You can like Vista, thats fine. Just don't pretend that there are no problems when theres a plethora of them.
*/
return 0;
}
On topic: WiFi is all I would add. Beyond that, get a Pandora.
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending April 6th, 2008 {Engadget HD}
Apr 12th 2008 7:38PM Quote:
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Do you know my HD A/EP35 upscales beautifully - on some discs it's very very close to some high def - which is another reason why the public are unconvinced
(especially @ the cost of Blu-ray high def).
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I can tell you the difference between Blu-Ray and Upscaled DVD on my 32", 22", and 19": 6 times the pixel resolution vs an upscale are the difference between night and day. The colors tend to suck on the DVD side, too.
And who is going to fill the void for HD media except Blu-Ray? Currently it is the only viable solution for people at this point. Downloads?
Quoting myself:
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Grandma on downloads? Get off the drugs!
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As for cr@ppy "HD Lite"?!
Boy oh boy you really are reaching for the lies to try & damn all the encodes.
Anyone whos ever seen a decent encode knows the differences between them & retail are (often) minute
(especially given that the vast majority of the mionority with HD TVs have screen sizes between 32" - 50").
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I'll just quote myself again:
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Enjoying Blu-Ray rips? You can also enjoy contributing to the numbers that tell studios that (stronger) DRM really is necessary.
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YOU are the reason companies stuff DRM down our throats. Thanks for helping them justify the next iteration of lock-downs.
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending April 6th, 2008 {Engadget HD}
Apr 12th 2008 7:24PM As you said, those are ONLY PS3s.
Have you not seen the graphs? Lets recall here:
-HD-DVD outsold Blu-Ray every day of the week in 2006.... except December.
-Then after December, Blu-Ray consistently outsold HD-DVD every day of the week, nearly 2:1 the entire time.
What happened in November? The PS3 was released. People WERE and are continually buying it for the Blu-Ray functionality, and pretty much every retailer I've gone to have recommended it as the best player on the market. Game console or not, a very good percentage of those 12 million people bought the PS3 as a Blu-Ray player.
Who cares if it is a game console when it does the job better than the competition for a lower price? PS3 sales are just as good a representation of the a/v market as the HDTVs are at this point.
Stop kidding yourself into thinking that the numbers mean anything but 12 million strong and growing.
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending April 6th, 2008 {Engadget HD}
Apr 12th 2008 11:15AM @ TT: Last I Read:
"The fact that you guys are the first two to post says something." Note the "TWO" in there. I merely read the entire comments section and decided to address your comments below as well.
And:
"Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)"
First Poster: "NFinity",
Second Poster (in reply): "Truth Teller".
Wha you could have hit me with was how I began the first three sentenced with "The Fact". Spell checker doesn't get redundancy, and I can't look over stuff long in the office.
Now if you will, actually reply to the relevant content of my original message.
Nielsen VideoScan High-Def market share for week ending April 6th, 2008 {Engadget HD}
Apr 11th 2008 10:51PM 12 million is more market penetration than HD-DVD achieved, and that so happens to be the number of PS3s out there. DTS-HD-MA and Profile 2.0 compliant. I thought you said those players wouldn't be out till the end of the year?
12 Million Players, of which are ALL FULLY COMPLIANT.
Once you can provide a better reason for why Blu-Ray will fail (other than comparing prices to Toshiba's subsidized players) in the high-definition market, please post a SANE comment and not a SENSATIONALIST comment right here.
