Posts by Mark Jones

Samsung says Apple lifted iPad from Kubrick's 2001

Event Horizon

1997 pretty much looks likes ipad there as well ...

HD media future may be Blu, but it's not rosy

Why no blu ray traction

Said it before here the bottom line is that a new blu ray disk is 35-40 % more then its standard DVD counterpart. Whilst a blu ray disk picture is great along with the new HD sound formats it isn't 40% greater.. I'm a HD fan but unless for a very special film I'm still buying standard DVD's because of the price gap.

I've begun to see on blogs that new standard DVD quality is being perceived as not as good as before so maybe the industry is trying to make the gap larger to justify the price markup. This wont work.

DVD sales were already stagnating blu ray isn't going to be the silver bullet for this so best the industry drop the price of blu ray disks now to what the market is paying for standard DVD's so at least they get return on their investment.

Sony exec confirms arrival of in-game PS3 messaging

PS3 update 2.4 ... in game messaging ... wow

So no talk of an update to include the DTS-HD codec or the ability to output it via bitstream.. If it doesn't arrive in update 2.4 with a lot of new blu-ray titles now with DTS-HD only poeple who want to enjoy lossless sound will have to buy a standalone blu-ray player... thanks a lot Sony :-(

New Red Hat CEO checks open source claims

Open source free

The artical states "open source packages such as Red Hat's Linux while not free are less expensive than proprietary equivalents - no names mentioned"

This is not true I would say Red Hat Linux can be less than proprietary equivalents but not always...in my enterprise Red Hat and Solaris OS are effectively free

However the real cost is paying for support and updates and in this example Red Hat are a little more expensive.

Overall though good that Red Hat are bringing in an external top manager...they need to understand what an enterprise expects at the moment they are not there.

Blu-ray outsells HD DVD 2:1 in US

HD DVD & Blue Ray content providers wake up smell the roses

I love my home cinema experience. Got a 50"" full HD tele, HDMI amp, PS3 etc. However with upscaling the difference in my opinion between a Blue Ray disk and a standard DVD is not miles apart.

However in the local stores here in Holland where I'm presently working a Blue Ray disk costs twice as much, but it ain't twice as good. So personally I won't buy a Blue Ray disks until the price falls.

It seems like when the industry pushed DVD's originally over VHS they saw it as an opportunity to set a new higher price point (even though DVD's were cheaper to make and ship).

That was fine (well not really but If I was them I would have tried the same) DVD's were a major improvement but its not the case between High Def disks and standard DVD's.

Both hi def formats need market share not only from each other but mainly from standard DVD's so CUT THE PRICE.