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1. Comment - Warner's $5 HD DVD to Blu-ray trade-in: Bargain or scam?

   (Apr 23, 2009 - 10:51 AM)

   RE Blue Rays taking off -- the adoption rate isn't increasing nearly enough for it to become a success, and without radical price cuts across the board, it seem unlikely that it ever will. Recent news about netflix's experience with cracking blue ray disks make me further leary of BD as a archival medium.
   RE Rent vs Buy: a new disk format really needs to be successful in both markets. Blue-Ray disks are proving substantially more fragile than DVDs in shipment -- google netflix and blue ray cracks. I've personally been using a VUDU download box for about a year and a half -- it's troublefree and the video quality is excellent; while substantially more expensive ($4/day) than Redbox ($1/day) per rental, I get real high definition video and don't have to make a trip to the store.
   RE downloads and caps -- Certain Idiot cable providers (*cough* Time Warner, *cough* Comcast) are trying to preserve the cable half of the business with bandwidth caps in the 150 to 250GB range. Verizon FIOS, where it's deployed, is picking up substantial customer base because of this -- and *SO FAR* they've stated that they don't *need* to. I get the impression that Verizon is less interested in the CATV third of their business than in the broadband and voice, and is more than willing to use the competitive edge.

2. Comment - CES Countdown #12: Has streaming media already rendered discs obsolete?

   (Apr 23, 2009 - 10:39 AM)

   30 down / 15 up, VUDU works flawlessly, high def and standard.
   It, at least *is* ready for prime time.
   
   Then again, I'm on fiber, not cable.