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Steve Jobs Suggests Blu-ray Not Coming to Mac Anytime Soon
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Mark my words: You will buy a movie on a thumb drive by the end of the year.
Maybe your not. Goes both ways. I refuse to co own video content with Apple, MS, Sony whoever. Won't happen for me and a lot of others. Renting is fine. Even if everyone had a superfast connection which many, many do not, then you have to get by caps on bandwith, they can have fun with that.
EDIT: I just read your thumb drive post. If stuff got cheap enough to go that way I am all for it. Be way better than optical, hopefully it cheapens up.
http://www.informationweek.com/news...jhtml?articleID=229000155&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
Retail sales of Blu-ray discs up by 64.2% in 2010.
Blu-ray disc rentals up by 105.5% in 2010.
However, the overall home video entertainment market declined by 3.8%.
Those are some interesting signs of Blu-ray's failure.
That's one of the big advantages of an HTPC. On the PC side, there's this wonderful program called AnyDVD-HD that strips region coding and content protection, so you can watch videos from any region, copy them to your hard drive, play them on non-HDCP displays, etc.
A lot of people want(ed) the Mac Mini to be an ultimate HTPC but Apple is just oblivious to it.
Yeah, I have an old film photographer I'm trying to drag into the modern world kicking and screaming. He thinks flash media is where it's at and won't deal with computers at all. He keeps stacks of CF cards with all his photos on them in TIF format, and edits them in a kiosk one by one. He comes to me when he needs JPGs and/or a DVD burned for backups.
Keeping everything on flash media gets pretty expensive and NEWS FLASH -- flash drives fail too. Heck I got leather-wrapped thumb drives from CES, three of them, and all of them failed.
I burned a Blu-ray disc full of data to back up some stuff, almost 25 gigs worth of data, and it took about 15 minutes. Don't post unless you know what you're talking about.
actually BD discs are about $1.50 each without the jewel case, cheaper if you buy in bulk (like 25+ at a time)
Rent Movies on USB Stick or SD Card
Don't forget about FlixOnStix's new service for renting movies on a USB stick or SD card.
www.flixonstix.com
Don't forget about FlixOnStix's new service for renting movies on a USB stick or SD card.
www.flixonstix.com
Guess this 'one man rule' payed off pretty well for everyone at apple and apple stockholders
It is amazing, how in this day and age after the last couple of years, how ignoramuses STILL have NO idea what a bubble is, how it is created, how long it usually lasts, and exactly what will happen when it inevitably pops.
Apple's "success" = iCrap iToy iFad BUBBLE.
"Mark my words: By 1975 EVERYONE will be flying in jet cars like George Jetson". Hanna-Barbera, 1961
Mark MY words: NO ONE WILL be buying a movie on a thumb drive by the end of the year. Not even you.
Fortunately, only the ignorant can possibly state that Apple being as far behind current technology as they have EVER BEEN SINCE THEY BEGAN is a good thing. My drive writes a 50 gig Blu-ray in 40 minutes.
Only 450 GB
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110107/media_nm/us_starwars_1
On nine BD discs, no less.
Let's see, how long would it take to download 450 GB on a 1 Mbps DSL line.... Nope - get the boxed set.
The Star Wars films are on Blu-ray in September
Just sayin'.
'If you call me a bag of hurt I will become more successful than you can possibly imagine'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110107/media_nm/us_starwars_1
On nine BD discs, no less.
Let's see, how long would it take to download 450 GB on a 1 Mbps DSL line.... Nope - get the boxed set.
http://www.informationweek.com/news...jhtml?articleID=229000155&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
Retail sales of Blu-ray discs up by 64.2% in 2010.
Blu-ray disc rentals up by 105.5% in 2010.
However, the overall home video entertainment market declined by 3.8%.
Those are some interesting signs of Blu-ray's failure.
No need to show me charts and graphs- I'm not concerned about present day.
Of course BD sales are up, they're not using cartridges for video games and flash media is still expensive.
You have to understand that I'm posting from the future. A year from now, I'll bump this topic and show you what i mean.
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That FlixOnStix seems to have a serious flaw.
The "fast" USB thumb drives write in the range of 10-15 MByte/sec, and the fastest are 20 to 30 (the 30 is the Corsair Flash Voyager GTR, which gets its write speed from being organized as a 4 volume RAID-0 stripe set - 64 GB $135 at Newegg).
That means that when you plug your thumbdrive into a FlixOnStix kiosk, it will take more than 15 minutes to download your BD-quality movi to your super-fast thumbdrive. If you have merely a fast thumbdrive, it will be 30-45 minutes.
Does anyone think that people will hang around the kiosk for half an hour to download a movie?
As far as the bump to the thread, maybe in 5 years....
That FlixOnStix seems to have a serious flaw.
The "fast" USB thumb drives write in the range of 10-15 MByte/sec, and the fastest are 20 to 30 (the 30 is the Corsair Flash Voyager GTR, which gets its write speed from being organized as a 4 volume RAID-0 stripe set - 64 GB $135 at Newegg).
That means that when you plug your thumbdrive into a FlixOnStix kiosk, it will take more than 15 minutes to download your BD-quality movi to your super-fast thumbdrive. If you have merely a fast thumbdrive, it will be 30-45 minutes.
Does anyone think that people will hang around the kiosk for half an hour to download a movie?
As far as the bump to the thread, maybe in 5 years....
Lol, internet connections will not be up to speed in the course of a year to handle downloads of Blu-ray quality movies.
give or take... But this one's in the bag.
Well yeah, but I think SSD will be overtaking traditional HDs way before download revenue overtakes physical media revenue and yet you can find plenty of HD options around Apple's store.
Choke on this Steve Jobs and linux2mac!
Orb BR software
A $20 disc turns your old-fashioned BD player into a 1080p streaming device.
Those frickin' dead discs are annoyingly versatile, aren't they?!?!
Orb BR software
A $20 disc turns your old-fashioned BD player into a 1080p streaming device.
Those frickin' dead discs are annoyingly versatile, aren't they?!?!
Please. We haven't even seen it for music let alone movies.
The ONLY time I've seen music offerred on thumb drive was the Beatles 24-bit stuff in 2010. For $260.00.
The reason we haven't seen it is simple : Duplication. Mass duplicating an optical format disc is very quick, as the discs are pressed. Mass duplication of Flash media requires to write out the memory using its in-place controller, thus requires tens of minutes per thumb drive and a massive array capable of sustaining those write speeds in parallel.
Not to mention the cost difference for each media.
The costs are no where near the same level. Anyone saying Flash media is going to replace optical in the short term doesn't know the first thing about what he's talking about.
This. At cost-per-gigabyte, the only thing that might beat an optical disc is a hard drive (the old fashioned kind, NOT an SSD). Optical discs are also more reliable than flash drives. Flash drives have chips and firmware on them that can fail. Optical discs don't. Flash drives are not replacing optical drives anytime soon.
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