Podcast - Apple Report: PRAM and Blu-Ray Rising
by , 4:30 PM EST, December 16th, 2006
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Dell is shipping Blu-ray enabled machines before Apple. What gives? Also, phase-change memory technology is shaping up to be the biggest thing since flash memory. In this week's Context Machine, a look at the role Blu-ray and PCM are going to play. Also, a look at the Rode Podcaster USB mic.
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Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:30 am Subject: HD-DVD is dead, no choice for you
Looking at all the electronics stores around here, It looks like the consumer doesn't get a real choice after all. Blu-ray is everywhere, and it is next to impossible to find an HD-DVD player. When people talk about "the market choosing" a product, they generally assume that it is consumers making the choice, but it looks like it isn't.
This same thing happened with USB 2 vrs Firewire. The day that USB 2 drives and cards hit the market, suddenly all the stores didn't have a single Firewire drive available. Since there was no way to put USB 2 on a laptop yet, people who wanted a high speed external for their laptop were out of luck, when the previous week they could have bought a firewire drive. Once USB 2 had been locked in as the dominant format, they let firewire back in - at higher prices, of course.
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