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Sony's $400 BDP-S350 Blu-ray player shows July 15th ship date {Engadget HD}
Jul 1st 2008 10:39PM Please explain how and why blu-ray players should be $200 right now? If I wanted the noise of a hair dryer in my entertainment center I would happily put a PC there. Until they become passively cooled -- no deal.
DVD Download DL logo sparks wonder over Toshiba's super-resolution DVD player {Engadget HD}
Jul 1st 2008 10:33PM I do not get the hate on this technology. I think the software behind this is brilliant. There has been similar technology used for a long time in the scientific community to get more detail on a single image. This has been especially true in the remote sensing industry.
What I would like to see happen is for this technology to be applied to true HD sources and fed into a 4k projector system. If a blu-ray player had this ability it would be so very nice.
France's Numericable debuts 1080p full HD VOD {Engadget HD}
Jul 1st 2008 11:13AM I will not be holding my breath waiting on any ISP in the US to offer DOCSIS 3.0 technology. Supposedly this tech brings speeds up to 100Mbps. I would love to have anything close to that in my house. I currently have the fastest DSL that AT&T offers in my area, 3.0Mbps, and they are discussing throttling or metering that.
Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy on Blu-ray September 16th {Engadget HD}
Jul 1st 2008 11:08AM The movie was never 1080i. The box was a misprint. The movie played in 1080p.
No other movie studios signed with Sony's PlayStation download service yet {Engadget HD}
Jun 29th 2008 2:11PM I do not get why some people are suggesting this is a bad thing.
Yes, right now only Sony has signed on. But, when movies came to iTunes there was only Disney. Within months they had almost all major studios. Same thing happened with Amazon.
Yes, there are other download services. When was having alternatives a bad thing. The more options the better.
Yes, Sony should have launched this earlier. Sony has been going through a bit of culture shock recently and I hope that they are learning lessons.
I just don't see how having another option for entertainment is a bad thing.
The Bill Day giveaway (part 3) - Zune 80GB (black) {Engadget}
Jun 27th 2008 4:40PM Macbook Pro from Apple
XBox 360 from MS
Japanese researchers devise method for cramming 42GB on a DVD {Engadget HD}
Jun 27th 2008 2:50PM Joe, thank you.
This is interesting research and I applaud the scientists that did it but thats as far as I can go. Even if these scientists were able to get this product out to customers in the next 12 months it would still not be viable in today's market.
Where would it's uses be?
Computer storage:
1. Hard drives are cheap and getting cheaper per GB almost daily.
2. Cheap optical storage exists in the form of DVD and dropping in price very fast is Blu-ray.
3. Holographic storage is already available in 300GB capacities. This storage method is expected to hit capacities over 1TB in the next two years.
Portable devices:
No chance to compete against Flash memory devices. Besides flash memory retails for about $5/GB and getting cheaper.
Entertainment/Home Theater:
People would have to buy new players. These new players would be more expensive than standard DVD players. Blu-ray players will be at $200 by holiday's 2008. The price area between $50 and $200 does not leave much room to compete. What movies would be released on it? Hollywood has signed off on Blu-ray and Bollywood has signed off on VMD.
I am open to suggestions but at this point I fail to see where in today's market this can fit. The research is great and may have uses in other places but as a DVD optical storage medium it does not make economic sense.
Sony unveils 2008 ES receiver lineup {Engadget HD}
Jun 26th 2008 2:47PM The ES line is good but you have a typo, neither the 2400 or 3400 have a 1,000 watt amp! That should be 100 watts.
If last years 5300 is any indication of the quality of these then I might have to buy. However, I would love to know what the 5400 is going to have.
Warner includes download-only iTunes Digital Copy with 10,000 B.C. Blu-ray {Engadget HD}
Jun 26th 2008 2:27PM Furthermore,
There is nothing in the iLounge story or the Video Business article that iLounge is quoting about a 25GB disc.
Warner includes download-only iTunes Digital Copy with 10,000 B.C. Blu-ray {Engadget HD}
Jun 26th 2008 2:21PM You could be right but according to all of these other sites, this ships on a BD50!
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/948/10000bc.html
http://www.dvdempire.com/exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=1404565&site_id=69&site_media_id=0
http://www.hdmoviesource.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1654&osCsid=56c36828ef36bf15c37be51e0646c9e3
