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Amazing: World’s largest or greatest or first something or others
We live in a strange world. While there’s an enormous economic crisis, companies still have to get us to notice their products. Technological toys must be purchased! Let’s take a look at a great big cell phone and a Blu-ray player combo. You think getting a small cell phone is a good idea? Maybe you think a Palm Pre or an iPhone is the way to go. You crazy fool.
RIP – VHS finally dies
In much the same way Blu-ray hopes to eventually ‘kill’ the inferior DVD, DVD has finally buried VHS. “Old news!” I hear you cry, and yes, I appreciate that the VHS has been facing this impending doom for a while, but the day has finally come where we can officially say that it is a thing of the past.
Up until now JVC, the developers of VHS, have been the only major company to still make standalone VHS players, with companies like Panasonic blaming the obviously empty market for them stopping production. The last film to be released on VHS, “A History of Violence,” was released in 2006, completing 30 years of VHS dominated home visual entertainment, which started with “The Young Teacher.” Continued after the break.
So is Blu-ray really dead?
Well, we all knew Steve Jobs’ view of Blu-ray (remember when he described it as a “bag of hurt?”), but it seems he is not the only one who thinks Blu-ray just may be drawing its last dying breaths. Robin Harris proclaims “Blu-ray is dead” and makes some points that might just make some folks sit back and say hmmmmmm.
Granted, it took a while for DVD to make it into mainstream when it was first introduced, like 5 or 6 years, or so. You still had diehards hanging on the their VHS. Heck, I still also own a VHS player. It’s practically a relic. So, you have people arguing, give Blu-Ray a break — it’s only been out a year or so. Continued after the break.
Sharp announces the mix-matched Blu-ray/VHS combo player
Sharp has just unveiled its latest player, which has been dubbed the Aquos BD-HDV22 and it is hard to imagine just what they were thinking because this player offers a mix of some very old and very new formats. The BD-HDV22 offers a combination of a Blu-ray disc player, a 250GB hard drive and a more »
