Affordable 150" Plasma telescreens a decade away
It's just transport. Not all that life important. Carrots in my horse and cart work great. I don't need 10 million miles an hour to enjoy travelling. Horses are more than sufficient. Don't let all these car folks make you think you're missing anything. Sure it's got better speed and reliability but after the trip is over you went to the same place they did. Once in that "gotta have the latest and greatest" transport mindset, it's easy to become a snob and be critical of just about everything, even to the point where you are not riding a horse anymore. Then only after a few of the cars are "worthy" and these people don't even enjoy driving cars unless it's part of the elite minority of cars which garner 5 out of 5 by autophiles review sites. Let them be anal about it and enjoy your horse!
Brilliant and dead on! Thanks for the laugh, need one in this thread.
Good it's adequate for you. You're known as the "lowest common denominator". Some people require BD for their work, while others, like me, would prefer that Macs stayed up to date with technology. Getting Blu-Ray now while it's 7 years old is utterly piss-poor, but it's better than waiting even longer.
Some would say "below LCD". Shouldn't people like that be busy "editing" movies on their iPad? Can't WAIT for the new FCP... look! Runs on an iPad! You just point to scenes and move them around where you want them... and it only works up to 720p since in Mr. Jobs downloadable world no resolution exists above that... who needs 1080p?
exactly. but watching a movie on your computer screen with crappy speakers whether on a bluray or dvd is minor at best. I am not discussing a 50 inch plasma hometheatre with DTS or uncompressed audio codecs on a 7.1 surround system (which I have) is a hell of a lot different than whining about the great losses one "experiences" on a small computer screen. If you have the ability to hook up your computer to a projector or plasma, why not just get a $100 sony bdplayer, surround speakers,etc and enjoy bd the way it was meant to, nto on a 27 inch or smaller computer with crap speakers. On this confined computer format your experience loss between a bd and dvd is so minimal the whining is pathetic. Nobody here is saying there is no difference between a hometheatre, movie theater etc lol
Some of us have 30" screens. Some of us are running their macs into even larger screens via HDMI adaptors.
The local Walmart just added two aisles for Blu-ray movies. There were more people shopping Blu-Ray than regular DVD
Try Fry's... they add an aisle every month!
Those are poor folks who can not afford Apple
Yes, Wal-mart "poor folks" who can't afford Apple's suicidally stupid refusal to deal with 5-7 year old "latest" technology and yet, can afford to have the best in their homes somehow.
Meanwhile, I was just researching the largest plasma TV's available (150"), and we're a mere decade away from AFFORDABLE wall to wall telescreens with four AND MORE times the resolution of 1080p.
And to Steve Jobs' and minions' eternal chagrin, it will be optical discs, Blu-ray AND ITS DESCENDANTS that will be THE delivery method for watching movies on these screens. And more importantly, businesses delivering BUSINESS PROMOTIONAL CONTENT EN MASSE.
Downloadable infrastructure will be hard pressed to EVER come up to physical delivery standards in a Depression.
iBrats who grew up in Job's "mobile" world just don't get the reality of HOMES and OFFICES, and probably won't until they hit their 30's and reality sets in.
That's always the problem with futurists. They consistently overshoot and shoot themselves in the foot. Anyone who, in 1961 watching "The Jetsons", would tell you you were crazy if you didn't think EVERYONE would be flying around in aircars by 1990.
Wrong. And Blu-ray/optical naysayers are even more wrong. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
But most people have to hit their 50's to realize this, and some people with mental illness, like Jobs, never do no matter how old they get. They usually end up homeless on the street chattering to themselves, but some, like Jobs, are protected by success and keepers.
P.S. Wait until the Depression really sets in and NO ONE DARES to take a laptop or any other electronic gear out of the house for fear of theft at gunpoint and having their latest mac showpiece pried out of their cold dead hands. Poof! There goes your iMobile world.
Reality. It's a b----.
