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forget about the drives.... macmini air, anyone? I wish apple comes up with macmini with no optical drives, but faster cpu and a decent/designated gpu, instead.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer That's good to know. I did not realize the neilson numbers were dollars and not units sold; however, Blu-Ray disc are at the very most less than double their barebones DVD counterparts, and usually just 1/3…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer Blu-Ray has been accounting for 12% of the DVD Pie fairly regularly, yes. In fact, they say 18% of Hulks optical media sales were Blu-Ray. That's a pretty fat niche. Thanks for the link. The data looke…
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Quote: Originally Posted by OldCodger73 bite, that's just your perception. There's always nay-sayers out there. Time will tell but if BD doesn't replace DVD, IMO it'll succeed on a larger scale than LD did. I hope you're right. I'm now living…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer I'm pretty sure Blu-Ray has already well surpassed laserdisc in terms of success. I doubt Laserdisc ever accounted for 12% of physical media sales. Nor do I believe it ever had the steady release of popula…
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Quote: Originally Posted by OldCodger73 murch, you've been crying doom and gloom about BD ever since the original HD/BD thread started. Will BD survive? Will it become a niche product? Who knows, only time will tell. In the meantime, I'll continu…
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The THX recommendation for screen size vs. the viewing distance chart is to cover the field of vision to optimize and enhance panoramic viewing experience. Obviously, the chart is design to apply for bigger screens, 80"+ home theater, but not for l…
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You would rarely see 1080p contents that require absolute need for 30mbps average bitrate even on blu-ray disc. Unless the studios just like to claim high bitrate and use mpeg2 paired with lossless sound track. When using proper video and audio co…
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Most consumers would not care or even bother to notice the difference. Even if the technology delivers 20x better quality, if it only caters to 5% of the market, it would not be a successful product. As 95% of the market would choose cheaper, easi…
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I got myself a cheap HiDef combo player, but I have hard time finding cheap Blu-ray movies to play in it. I'm still buying more HD-DVD titles than Blu-ray. Check out the amazon.co.uk for interesting bargains on HD-DVD imports. However, my blu-ray…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Northgate $14 for blank BR media!!!!! It will be worth my interest when street price hit around $5, but ideally right around $2 for SL media would be even nicer. I'm sure the price will go down if one can wait lo…
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The LG combo drive is only $125 shipped from Newegg with a valid coupon code. I was surprised that the drive also included the powerDVD bundle for HD/BD disc playback. I thought it was odd that the LG combo drive is cheaper than the Blu-ray drive.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 Toshiba has decided to make life even more difficult for Sony. Whether this matters or not, I don't know. I think Blu-ray's struggle has little to do with toshiba. There is just too little PS3 kids wanti…
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not sure what was fixed. Seems to work as it did with 2.0.1. Can't say anything has improved.... I guess, it did not break things.... so far so good.
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few things I can notice immediately are the reception bars have gained a bar or two and now it's more responsive to my fingers for sure than 2.0.
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I had trouble with my iphone 3g activation and 1.5 hrs of calling and waiting to get it resolved with ATT, apple store manager ended up activation my iphone 3g manually and I did not get the data plan or the 2 year contract. I found that out wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell The apps just crash within themselves and the phone goes back to the home screen. They don't cause any harm to the OS itself. You can try to relaunch the app or open a different app. My 16GB black version a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Contegni Wasn't Apple well prepared for this release? I called the Apple stores in my area that have the iPhone in stock and they said they are receiving daily shipments of them. The ones that don't haven't gotten a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 Look guys, I understand news on the plastic disc front will be slow to come until we head into the Christmas season or the next rev of the Mac Pro. But seriously, take the gaming reviews and discussion to i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Walter Slocombe I think you are completely wrong to say "the Wii is the better console", technically it is inferior. It would be more accurate, and support your point better to say it is the more easily accessible o…