Leaving comments across the blogosphere…
How Blu-Ray Can Avoid Failure
The thing is Blu-ray players are backwards compatible with DVD. If they market that better, folks may move their existing DVD player into the bedroom and get Blu-ray for the living room. Without having to immediately, or ever, replace their DVD collection. Making it a very different transition than tape to optical disc.
If I were to recommend a Blu-ray player today, I’d say get a networked Samsung (capable of Netflix and Pandora streaming) or PS3 - more bang for your buck.
Blu-ray: Why it Will Stay Blue
Actually, what hurts Blu-ray most is “Blu-ray†- From a branding/marketing perspective, it would have been better for “HD DVD†to have won. It should be immediately clear to most what that is and why they’d want it.
Streaming the inauguration
Yeah, but what about that Slingbox iPhone software… When can I get it? And how much? And do we know that Apple will even approve streaming over 3G? Hopefully the minimal data requirements of a 320×240 broadcast won’t worry them or AT&T too much. However, as a Sling owner, I’d much rather see you guys finally bump up mobile video resolutions on the devices that can handle it.
Keep that laptop data safe and sound
Of course it depends on the protection scheme/software, but “professional†or “enterprise†grade encryption (i.e. not the built-in Mac stuff) will probably stop everyone who isn’t a government entity. Maybe them, too.
Most personal stuff probably isn’t of interest to would be thieves, but corporate espionage is another story. In which case our employers need to take appropriate steps, the responsibility to protect should be on them. Although some of my prior employers couldn’t even get SSL going on Exchange web access, letting all my fellow SBUX customers read my work email. Ah well.
Our Plan To Fix The New York Times (NYT)
I was quoted in the Sunday NY Times a few weeks ago. It cost me $5 to buy a copy. $5 for a newspaper?! I think those rates are high enough. Although, subscription rates are probably structured differently. Somewhat related, on the radio today I heard I can get the Sunday edition of the Washington Post delivered for only 77 cents a week. As a non-subscriber, I’m suddenly contemplating paper for the first time in years.
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