prices are likely to go up after our government implements the "australia wide" internet upgrade. they are estimating $200 for the basic plans once 80% of current ADSL users make the switch.
I wasn't aware anything like this was to happen. But there's the possibilty of some benefits though, assuming they've designed the system that way (and will follow through). Uniformity and hopefully increased bandwidth come to mind, and hopefully, an end to the caps.
Can you ellaborate?
but yea, even over in asia they would struggle with millions of people downloading those file sizes.
I'd think any system in any country would as they exist now. Infrastructure growth is notoriously slow in most parts of the world.
Even with compression, 1080p would bring 80Gb/s to it's knees in a hurry and scream for mercy in the form of buffering. Then there's the possibility of data caps and the related issues/fees for users willing to attempt it.
yup TV sales/prices would have been a major player in the sale of BD players. on some TVs the retailers were giving away free BD players! getting pretty desperate haha.
Not desparate,
smart.
The free player can help generate HDTV sales. That combination would also help movie studios by giving them a larger potential market to make sales (remember, studios are on the BR specification board along with hardware makers). Lowering the cost of BR movies will help this, as does the DVD+BR combo packs (genius for the "switcher"). As it happens, the BR media has come down in price to near parity with DVD media.
So the excuse that the media is more expensive doesn't fly anymore.
All involved will end up with more sales as a result. So it's actually quite brilliant.
wow! thats insane! i think thats why prices are so high over here though, we do not have the "basic" players, we mainly see the higher quality Sony/Pioneer etc.
I figured it might still be the older, expensive models. They cost more to produce (given the components used on the boards), and the prices can only go down so far without a loss. If I had to guess, the new players won't be available until the current stocks dwindle to nearly nothing remaining. No one wants to eat the loss at selling them under wholesale, let alone manufacturing costs. So it may be awhile before less expensive players show up there.
which i believe is totally stupid. if a monitor is capable of displaying the picture (min of 1080p) then why should they be disadvantages because of it? sure make the GPU/BD player etc HDCP, but not the monitor!
It would have depended on what their position was at the time the product was designed (= NO BluRay support due to licensing at the time).
Parts (electronic components = capacitors, resistors, chips,...) are ordered in advance once the design has obtained RTM status (supplies are scheduled over time known as Just In Time Scheduling). It's possible that they could change a non-HDCP part out for one that is, but there's a strong chance that you'd lose money on the component part contract with the supplier of the orginal component used. Unless that contract is completed. This isn't impossible, but it's not that common with semiconductors (chips) as it would be with resistors for example. Designs tend to revolve around the semi's used, not the passives (resistors, capacitors).
i believe apple could sort out the licensing in a matter of minutes if they wanted to! they probably dont want sales interfering with their itunes store sales.
That's part of it IMO. Apple doesn't like not having control either, and Sony controls BluRay.
TV's GPU can decode full HD video! (apple just hasnt let it).
