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Quote: Originally Posted by jimmac My screen at home is 53". I wouldn't consider anything less for my living room than 50 ". I don't have any data but I'd be willing to bet the larger screen sizes are the one's that are showing the most growth…
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Quote: Originally Posted by vinea 720p is not the same level of quality as 1080p. That's a bit of marketing hype really. The differences between 720p, 1080i and 1080p are almost imperceptible unless you have the a screen size of 40inches or ab…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Microsoft stated they won't include Blu-Ray as an option. http://www.reuters.com/article/reute...24707720080313 Are they sticking with 8 track?
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Buy a 1TB drive. BD is still slow to burn and expensive per disc. Yes but the whole point of disc based media is portability. I don't fancy carrying and posting my hard drives all over the world when I'm d…
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Shouldn't this thread title be changed to the Blu-ray discussion thread? HD-DVD's dead and buried so not much VS. to discuss. All I want to know is when are Apple going to put re-writable Blu-ray drives in the iMac or Laptops?? I have 1TB of data…
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Blu-ray is the only high capacity portable media available. A replacement for recordable DVD's is long overdue. Blu-ray is also the only viable media you can buy HD movies on now. All TV is, or will soon be, broadcast in HD, HD-TV's have ta…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bg_nyc Huh? Why is that? Don't publishers and electronics manufacturers still make a margin on their SD hardware and media? Yes of course they do, though probably not as large as with blu-ray. And just because you …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jimmac No that's the reality. If you want BR to become the mainstream format everyone uses DVD is now the format BR has to beat. DVD is a standard definition format with low capacity, Blu-ray is a high-definition fo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer Um...they sold HD DVD players for only ONE WEEKEND at a $99 price, and sold more that weekend than the entire previous year combined. Logic would dictate that once the sub-$99 price becomes the norm instead…
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Blu-Ray outsells HD-DVD globally by about 3 to 1 and rising. There's really no sign that HD-DVD will ever alter the momentum and as Bay said it's now just being used as a spoiler tactic. They've tried selling the players at Wal-mart for $100, giving…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Karelia MacBook Pro is the clumsiest name I've ever seen roll out of Cupertino. Especially as it looks pretty much like an un-redesigned Powerbook. Oh, it is
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Quote: Originally Posted by tkelly would the new imacs come with the beta of leopard, or maybe a coupon for it when it comes out? i mean, have they done something similar in the past? The last 2 iMac designs were both released not long be…
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I don't think we'll see anything except perhaps speed bumps across the line. This quarter seems to be all about getting iTV and iPhone out there. We won't see a video iPod till iPhone's established and we wont see any major new hardware until …
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Quote: Originally Posted by PB what about finger prints on a 24" display? Agreed. I don't really see the point of touch screen on anything but a handheld device. I'll be happy to be proved wrong though As for this new iMac talk it re…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H It's usually just a couple of weeks. Your mum won't be getting a free upgrade. Hmm, maybe I'll postpone the purchase.
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My Dad's buying my Mum a MacBook for her birthday on March 6th. How long after purchase can you claim a free OS upgrade to Leopard?
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Quote: Originally Posted by icfireball Let's not get anal retentive here. Microsoft's xBox 360 and Sony's PS3 are certainly on topic for this forum. One has BluRay and the other (is yet to) support HD-DVD. Gaming systems were a major part of th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dfiler nearly nobody plays movies on their game systems. When PS2 was released the DVD player market was tiny with DVD players costing a fortune. After PS2's release sales of DVD's went throught the roof. Sony are lo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Elixir http://www.mcvuk.com/newsitem.php?id=24823 sure. ebay said it is not allowed, if people still continue to do so then good luck to them. thats all i was saying. That report is innacurate, Ebay has not b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Elixir who exactly is going to start taking advantage of blu-ray for games? who? maybe less than a handful of game publishers and only on maybe 2 or 3 games liek final fantasy (IF EVEN). We won't know who will be tak…