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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15664 |  w00t (885) May 25, 2007 - 04:21 am
| "Right now there is a $299 HD-DVD player on sell at Wal-Mart"
Not exactly $299...
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=495769
..and also
http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/04/26/fuh-yuan-retracts-299-wal-mart-hd-dvd-statement/
"Basicly we are talking about less than a half million movies in a country with 300 millon people."
Oh look! Another silly numbers comparison!
The truth is that the war is over, HDDVD will limp 'till years end when Universal exclusive contracts ends, and Universal can go Bluray too (they've made no mystery of it).
Bluray is leading in the sales, took the overall lead despite launching later, and the replication price advantages HDDVD had a year ago have almost fully evaporated as technology and manufacturing progressed, cf.
http://wesleytech.com/blu-ray-vs-hd-dvd-replication-costs-revealed/111/ Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15647 | w00t (885) May 24, 2007 - 10:19 pm
| The only ones that care are the MS execs that thought making Halo2 a Vista exclusive could boost Vista sales... LOL.
Dated game with dated graphics on an unstable OS. No thanks. You can probably get the Xbox+Halo2 for the price of Halo2 PC if you really want to play it. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15664 | w00t (885) May 24, 2007 - 10:16 pm
| This would probably only make the war longer.
HDDVD is losing badly and BluRay was trampling it on every front. Throw doubt on the winner, and the HD war could be lasting an extra 2 years...
Since they're putting the *injunction* forward so much, this sounds like the usual patent Mafia tactic of bullying: abuse the system by making sure that if the other party will lose money if they don't pay now, whether or not the patent is valid.
All they need to find to succeed is a gullible or corrupt enough court, which in the US of A isn't so hard. Happened to RIM, MS, etc. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15644 | w00t (885) May 23, 2007 - 11:16 pm
| It goes to show that Wii's customer aren't eating into PS3 or 360 customers. They're just a different market.
Nintendogs is supercute, but it's nothing more than a glorified tamagochi, you can do all there is to do within 15 min of "gameplay". It just doesn't appeal to the same public. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15612 | w00t (885) May 22, 2007 - 11:07 pm » Edited on May 22, 2007 - 11:09 pm
| Wii is low res. This is as high quality as it will ever get.
Don't expect to see anything coming close to 360 or PS3 graphics, the Wii is at the level of the original XBox and barely above the PS2. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15606 | w00t (885) May 22, 2007 - 01:12 pm
| "If someone’s complaining of an unstable Vista installation, the problem lies in the hardware."
Actually, since the hardware worked well before Vista x64, doesn't it mean that the problems lies in the software? ie. Vista itself not being ready or compatible?
MS being the monopoly they are, the trouble of supporting hardware variety should rest on their shoulders first and foremost, rather than on IHVs. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15567 | w00t (885) May 21, 2007 - 10:35 am
| Nope. It's the same driver file. Only thing changed is the control panel thingy, and I guess it's mostly change version numbers and have it recognize the new vidcards.
Looks like MS pwned nVidia with their DX10. One more reason not to get Vista before SP1. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15590 | w00t (885) May 21, 2007 - 09:29 am
| DX10 seems to be a mess for everyone, from devs making drivers to games attempting to use it.
I wonder if the main DX10 purpose wasn't actually to:
1) screw nVidia in retaliation to nVidia having screwed MS with 1st XBox licensing, and then jumping ship to Sony
2) screw everyone out there by having them spend inordinate amount of times to make DX10 drivers, making work on OpenGL drivers unfeasible, thus tightening the grip they have on graphics API (and indirectly, Linux & Mac, which still don't have OpenGL drivers for the latest hardware)
This is partly coming back to bite them since Vista is flopping (as much as a monopoly can flop, that is). Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=15382 | w00t (885) May 08, 2007 - 03:37 am » Edited on May 08, 2007 - 03:36 am
| | Uh any respective fan would already have the movie and crap. And like they would do it in wide screen or *laugh* HD. People with no past involvement, yeah like they expect them to pick up SE and CE games... Flag this | Edit this post |
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