I think this nails Blu-Ray perfectly: "In fact, aside from the fact that Blu-Ray’s high definition picture is so ridiculously gorgeous, the whole format is demonstrably worse than what came before it."
http://www.marco.org/2688958726 My wife always gets DVDs instead of Blu-Rays since it takes so long to actually get to the movie. Hell, we've even had Blu-Rays that just crash on loading. They sure are pretty tho. phil swenson http://philswenson.com On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:33 AM, phil swenson <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) you can't tether your iPhone to your iPad because iPhone only offer > bluetooth tethering and the iPad doesn't support that > 2) one reason why people don't want to just carry MiFis or just use > their phone for tethering everywhere are it kills your phone's battery > and it kills the instant on/connected appeal of the iPad 3G. But I do > think it's lame you can't buy a plan that spans both devices > 3) BluRay is a stop-gap technology (I agree with Joe and Tor on this). > Your average consumer finds streaming video good enough. The thing > holding back streaming video is content. For example, I wanted to > watch the original Tron again. No dice on iTunes or Netflix > Streaming. Available only on DVD. The future is: every show and > every movie ever made instantly on demand at 1080p for a price > (subscription fee or each). Just a matter of time before the content > owners get on board... and bandwidth will have to go up for 1080p of > course. Of course I personally hate BluRay. I literally can walk to > the corner for a coffee while my player loads the all the BS for > movie. Then I'm forced to watch 5 mins of commercials. Then if I > stop my movie and come back the next day it makes me go through the > whole deal again (thanks Sony!)... I'm sure the newer players are > better, just venting. > 4) 3D TVs aren't selling well. People don't want to wear the glasses > at home. My prediction is FAIL > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
