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Sling Media's Clip+Sling strides into beta, release looks imminent {Engadget}
Oct 3rd 2008 11:40AM The sad thing is that the slingplayer for iphone was shown off in prototype form months ago and we still haven't heard a peep since then on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Cdl546xEQ
Sling Media's Clip+Sling strides into beta, release looks imminent {Engadget}
Oct 3rd 2008 9:54AM That's nice, but not nearly as useful as a Sling Player for iPhone/iTouch.
PS3 Video Store provides more reason to avoid DRM {Engadget}
Sep 22nd 2008 10:49AM The use of digital watermarks on files as well as discreetly placed at a certain point in the content would go a long way towards making digital downloads more "friendly" for the typical consumer.
All you have to do is get on Xbox Live and start talking to all of the red neck hick idiots who are bragging about how many movies they've bought for their Xbox to realize that, sadly, digital downloads are the way it's going to be.
Unfortunately the sheeple create the trends for this stuff and there's no convincing them that putting on a wife beater and going to Wal-Mart to actually buy the disc is better than sitting on their fat ass eating potato chips and hitting a button on their remote to get it.
Apple prepping a 32GB iPhone update, bringing back at-home activation? {Engadget}
Sep 21st 2008 1:58AM The 32GB Flash from Toshiba (I believe) went into production a few months ago. I would not at all be surprised to see a 32GB iPhone and/or 64GB iTouch this year from Apple.
It's apparent Apple is phasing out hard disk based iPods as they are now down to one model in the entire iPod line, to make this happen they need higher capacity devices.
At this rate we should see a 128GB Touch like device by the end of next year or early 2010 at the absolute latest.
Apple prepping a 32GB iPhone update, bringing back at-home activation? {Engadget}
Sep 21st 2008 1:55AM The thing that people constantly forget is that "normal" memory prices don't apply to Apple. As the largest consumer of flash memory in the world Apple gets the best pricing on flash memory in the world. They also have scheduled price drops, etc, built into their supplier contracts.
If the wholesale cost of a 32GB chip is $250 Apple probably pays $100 for it.
Skullcandy and Metallica team up on Death Magnetic headphones {Engadget}
Sep 19th 2008 2:21PM Fuck you Metallica, you can lick my ballz!
Plus, those headphones look like they're for some guy in his 40's who still wants to be 'hip' when he's hanging at the bus stop. He can show off his stupid looking cans and 1990's Discman to the kids with their iPhones and Zunes.
Plastic Logic's e-reader vs Amazon Kindle... fight! (updated with video) {Engadget}
Sep 11th 2008 11:49AM The problem with this thing is that there won't be content for it, it will be primarily aimed for corporate and educational use with materials generated for it along with the reading of .pdf and .word files.
As the HD format wars proved, content trumps quality. People want the ability to buy a cheap download book quickly and have it on the device ready to read in a matter of minutes.
Hopefully though Amazon will take the hint and come out with a Kindle (and soon) that doesn't look like a Coleco football game from the 1980's.
$249 Kindle 2.0 significantly thinner and Frog stylish? {Engadget}
Aug 26th 2008 10:41AM Certainly color would be an improvement for certain material, such as magazines, text book illustrations, etc. The problem is that currently color e-ink displays cost a fortune. Sadly I think it will be late 09 or more like 2010 before we see a color Kindle on the market.
New Kindle rumor revived, this time with a collegiate twist {Engadget}
Aug 25th 2008 3:09PM DrXym hit it on the head with his comments regarding standards for ebooks. Do we really want multiple competing DRM standards for ebooks similar to what we now have with the DRM on audio files?
Even though my friends have ridiculed me to no end for my interest in something like the Kindle, it is a really compelling idea, IF (and only if) they will move to a standard multi-device format and stop trying to emulate Apple with their approach.
I should be able to re-sell my Kindle books, back them up, or read them on a PC if I wish. Otherwise the price of the books has to be so dirt cheap that it makes it a virtual rental price for getting access to the content.
Best Buy unveils the Samsung BD-P2550 {Engadget}
Aug 21st 2008 2:13PM Flash,
I don't know where the SSD discussion came from as I was refuting your comment about anybody who preferred HD DVD or thought it had a chance was a moron.
As far as solid state and downloads goes.
1. Call me when I can get a 50GB SSD drive for the 20 cents it costs to make a Blu-Ray disc.
2. Downloads are turds. The audio/video quality is crap and you don't even own the freaking movie. What a joke.
Blu-ray probably is the last physical format for AV we are going to see, but if studios and CEs want it to succeed in a sluggish economy they are going to have to get prices down, and fast.
