Recent content by Rob_Walton

a man called keith jack, who is marketing director of sigma solutions, who provide single solution decoding chips to both formats has just made an interesting note on avs. he acted dissapointed that nobody had speculated these might be dual blu-ray/hd dvd players, or that walmart might not want...

rob enderle? eek! the very same fella who's been predicting victory for one side or the other every couple of months it seems over the last year? as i remember it he last came out saying bd was going to win after their sales advantage was first revealed. the guy's shameless!

dvd players were made by the main japanese companies before they were licensed to chinese companies. a small detail perhaps to us, but a huge one when your company wants to see a return on investment.

you don't get somethin for nothin, as my mumma always said. cheap chinese players in bulk now will not be wooing the japanese heavyweights into the hd dvd camp, which means enthusiasts on that side of the format bridge will have to make do with toshiba players for the forseeable future, or maybe...

has it ever been broadcast in highdef? it's been a while since i last watched it, but there were a number of stock footage shots which might be slightly jarring when set against the (at the time) freshly shot film. even in sd (pal) it wasn't too clever, though i love the film inspite of these...

are you saying fox have released 25 titles on bd, while paramount have released 21? announced titles can always change as we have seen...

the beeb is the largest broadcaster on earth, while their wildlife documentaries have been sold to pretty much every country under the sun. there seems to have been little risk behind this project, financial or otherwise. sorry but the reviewer sounds a little silly in his bombast up at the top.

and how many millions of dedicated sacd or dvd-a players were sold before uni players became commonplace? the situation is not particular analoguous. as to the cd and dvd convergance, that's an older tech being incorperated into a new one as a feature of occasional usefulness. cd licenses are...

the apparent failure of umd would suggest that portable video is not a particular interest of the general public. while g3 phones have been a disaster for many mobile companies, in terms of the licenses they've been forced to pay governments for the bandwidth rights, vs the return on outlay...

it would be a shame if highdef optical remained a sideshow like laserdisc. as to the importance of dual format players, they become increasingly irrelevant as time goes on and more and more single format players are bought. right now there are millions of ps3s on the market and there look likely...

sorry, i don't know what that means.

shouldn't the title read: hd dvd sales staging comeback on amazon? not sure that site is representative of the market as a whole, though we'll know for sure once the videoscan numbers come out. you won't regret the decision, it's a fantastic show, and it's gonna be a spectacular way to show off...

you know what i meant! the point was in relation to portable video devices - just try watching one of those while you work-out: it's more of a struggle than the exercise! the cases you mention only reinforce the idea of a fixed display with its traditional video sources. btw you must be visiting...

portable audio is great because you can walk, drive, and workout while you listen. portable video is severly handicapped since you can do none of these things while you watch - unless you've already sold your soul to the devil. it's simply a question of location and usability. music is largely...

i'd agree with some of the earlier sentiment that those noticing product placement in many cases are probably on the look out for it. that says more about their own priorities, than about the film they're discussing. it's dissapointing that robert harris's review of this title focused almost...