Good show. I wish you guys had skipped some normal pre-show stuff and just gone to guest. As you said nothing was really going on, and the first half was kind of a drag.
I don't see adding Itunes movie downloads as an incentive to pick up the blu-ray disk. People can already buy a cheaper DVD, rip it and move it to their Ipod.
I see there will be a three parallel paths going forward. DVD, Blu-Ray, and digital downloads. With all that competition I just don't see Blu-Ray ever gaining as big a market share as DVD.
I know Ben likes to bring up Voodoo, but it really is the Tivo of the digital download enterprise. Yes, it may have some success, but it will never be as big as the eventual winner. The AppleTv and the Xbox360 are really the two front runners in that market space. Microsoft probably has six million potential customers right now who, if convinced, can download movies right now.
“The other one is a biggie, and it's something very noticeable in the videos: touch sensitivity is pretty bad. Using the virtual keyboard proved to be far too painful, and we're pretty sure it wasn't multitouch-friendly.”
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Good show. I wish you guys had skipped some normal pre-show stuff and just gone to guest. As you said nothing was really going on, and the first half was kind of a drag.
I don't see adding Itunes movie downloads as an incentive to pick up the blu-ray disk. People can already buy a cheaper DVD, rip it and move it to their Ipod.
I see there will be a three parallel paths going forward. DVD, Blu-Ray, and digital downloads. With all that competition I just don't see Blu-Ray ever gaining as big a market share as DVD.
I know Ben likes to bring up Voodoo, but it really is the Tivo of the digital download enterprise. Yes, it may have some success, but it will never be as big as the eventual winner. The AppleTv and the Xbox360 are really the two front runners in that market space. Microsoft probably has six million potential customers right now who, if convinced, can download movies right now.