Posts Tagged ‘ HDTV ’

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19
Feb

RIP HD DVD

I should have written a post when I thought about it, but I decided that blu-ray would win one week before Warner Bros. made their decision to defect.  I was torn at the time having just bought an HD tv, and I really wanted to buy a player to go with it.  After much contemplation and a little bit of research I decided blu-ray would come out on top, and consequently didn’t buy anything since I had already forked out $300 for the remote, $300 for the new DVR, and $300 for the wall mount kit in addition to the cost of the TV.  I couldn’t see paying $400 for a PS3 to get blu-ray right then when I didn’t even own a blu-ray movie.  And then I would have to start forking out more for the movies.  My xbox 360 did fine for upscaling my current dvd collection so I decided I would just wait a bit and get a PS3.  A week later, the bomb dropped.  I was very excited for my decision, and told my friends and family whom I had already told that blu-ray would come out on top.  Alas, a friend of mine didn’t head my warning and bough HD DVD.  He now owns 2 movies and a player now. Oops, nice investment.

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11
Jan

AppleTV

With all the talk about of the announcements next week that are as yet unknown, I think that one big announcement is coming that no one is thinking about.  Sony recently released a blu-ray notebook sized drive.  I have read all these blogs about Apple coming out with movie rentals, and that there is speculation that AppleTV, as a result, will be will be getting movie rental capabilities.  But I think that Apple’s long standing backing of Blu-Ray will play in it as well.  So you read it here first, I think Apple will come out with a new AppleTV that will have a Blu-Ray drive in it as well.  Thats the only thing I can think of that would be big enough that the recent Mac Pro refresh and Xserve refresh wouldn’t be big news.  I look forward to seeing if I am right.