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09/09/09
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That being said, I think most customers that aren't videophiles care more about availability and price than they do about bitrates and resolution. That being said, Blu-Ray has plenty to worry about in terms of market dominance, though it's certainly gonna be the high-end physical format of choice for a while.
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09/09/09
DVD standard comes in at around 5Mbps. HDTV at 8-15 Mbps. Blu-Ray clocks in around 40Mbps (which means my new internet connection clearly won't have a chance at handling that). When we start moving to some kinda 4K tech in the next decade or two, what kinda bitrate is that gonna have? If we can assume the same kind of 8-10x jump, we'd be sitting somewhere around 3200-4000Mbps, or 3-4 Gbps.
Yeah. Suffice to say, streaming has a hard road of beating any kind of physical format.
Then again, how long will it be before we've got Supra-ultra-mega-higher-def-o-vision...... movie cubes?
Edit: My math sucks. An 8-10x jump from Blu-Ray's 40Mbps would actually be 320-400 Mbps. Given that it's at least theoretically possible for CERTAIN countries to get Gbps speeds, Supra-Def might have a bit of a shot. But I'm unrealistically hopeful.
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07/29/09
07/29/09
You do know that you can turn that down a notch? Most 120hz TVs allow you to set the amount of enhancement. Typically, demos like to set everything on HIGH. It is your job to play around with it and reduce picture settings DOWN so that it's normal. That's the first thing I do whenever I get to play with a TV.
07/29/09
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07/29/09
by the time you read this note -- i'll be gone.
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01/05/09
01/05/09
Just like a DVD player, this thing comes with no media. But, it does allow you get free streaming TV shows and youttube according to the website, you just have to rent MOVIES or buy MOVIES or TV Episodes you may want to own. So what exactly are you bitching about?
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12/23/08
Can I play Hulu on a box from Roku or Vudu? And are any different than say your average TiVo box?
12/23/08
12/23/08
Why does everything have to be either/or with you people?
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11/20/08
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11/20/08
i think you are forgetting that:
the number of people who rent movies > the number of people who will have internet connections capable of downloading gigantic media files in a reasonable amount of time, in the near future.
As of a month ago, only 55% of those with internet access had broadband. And as we all know, it's not really all that broad.
There will be, for quite a while, a market for people who either can't or aren't willing to deal with intangible media. One BD is what, 30-40 gigs? (im not up on BD)
I dunno, call me when we have gig/sec speeds.
11/20/08
11/20/08
ok i have to retract that last part because i haven't had coffee yet, ugh i do realize that streaming doesn't present quite the issues that downloading does, but still requires unrealistic bandwidth if it's going to make BD obsolete enough to abandon this early.
*goes and gets coffee*