Apparently Sony and its cohorts are certain that they will own the market in just three years. At least, this is what Frank Simonis, the Blu-ray Disc Association's European chairman, has said today at CeBIT:
"Within three years it will just be Blu-ray"
Frank is not only talking about beating HD DVD, but also replacing DVD entirely. In three years. Thanks to "a plan", which includes the amazing success of the PS3. Apparently, they are doing stand-up comedy mornings in Hanover and we are, like, totally missing them. – Jesus Diaz
CeBIT 2007: Blu-ray Association has three-year plan to replace DVDs [IT Pro]
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This bed with a built-in TV and stereo in the headboard is what everyone in the 1970s thought people would have on a regular basis in the 21st century. Apparently they were under the impression that they had awesome taste in fabrics and color palettes and there's no way we would get sick of and eventually mock them for their aesthetics. Oh, and we made flat-panel TVs. –Adam Frucci
BedZine (yes, a blog just about beds) [via BornRich]
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Apple TV might be new and hyped but it’s entering a marketplace with other players and NetGear has no intention of letting the trendy one have it all its own way.
Meet the Digital Entertainer HD (EVA8000), a multi-platform device for streaming digital music, movies other content over wireless home networks. It sports a HDMI interface for streaming HD content and will work with Windows, Mac or Linux operating systems. It will also work with network storage devices and USB sticks/drives. Content can be streamed from online sites like YouTube and Flickr, while movies can be downloaded straight from BitTorrent’s legal site. NetGear says:
“Digital Entertainer HD automatically discovers HD movies, TV shows, music files, and personal photos on a home network, across multiple computers, and organizes these into a single media library displayed on a TV without the need for media server software running on the computer.”
This is a real do-it-all device, the size of a slim DVD player, and supports more formats that you can shake a stick at – whatever that really means. It’s certainly one I’ll be checking out when it ships over here this summer. The US price is £220.-Martin Lynch
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There is a point where shrinking technology can actually make life more difficult. USB sticks, for instance, have been going through some industry version of that movie Inner Space, where everyone seems Hell-bent on shrinking things to the point of non-existence or, at the least, the ability to find them. Take this Kingmax Super Stick USB flash drive, the latest one purporting to be the world’s smallest stick.
This one is really skinny though, measuring 34mm x 12.4mm x 2.2mm and coming in capacities ranging up to 4GB. Kingmax said it will also come with “well-known anti-virus software”. Of course, it supports Vista ReadyBoost and is waterproof and dustproof.
I guess my concern is how robust something this small and thin can be? It’s so damn small that I’m pretty sure I’d either lose it or break within a month. OK, a week.-Martin Lynch
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The are reports circulating that Philips is pulling out of the plasma TV marketplace. Philips makes both LCD and plasma HDTVs and pulling out of plasma would certainly give the LCD team something to crow about. Now, from what I can find – apart from the horror on the faces of people that bought Philips plasma tellys – is that Philips has been quick to knock the initial reports. In a statement, the company said:
"Incorrectly reported comments on a Russian news website have suggested that Philips is pulling out of the PDP (Plasma Display Panel) FlatTV market. For the foreseeable future, Philips will continue to include gas plasma-based sets in its overall product mix of FlatTVs sold around the world .”
OK, so Philips is not ditching plasmas. But then it adds:
“However, it is widely acknowledged that over time LCD will become the dominant flat panel TV technology, serving all screen sizes currently addressed by both LCD and PDP solutions, and this will inevitably shape Philips' product strategy in this market segment.”
Confused? You should be.-Martin Lynch
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