HD-DVD: The End Is Near
We all knew if was coming after the CES debacle earlier this year. The Hollywood Reporter is today reporting that Toshiba will finally kill off HD-DVD some time in the coming few weeks. How things have changed in just a…
BluRay vs Apple TV vs HD Cable vs SD DVD
iLounge has a very interesting post comparing these various home entertainment delivery mechanisms. It considers resolution, bit rates, availability and pricing. I'm not certain that I agree with some of their assumptions. They seem to think that Apple TV with…
Traffic Shaping for VOIP: Visible Proof
I just love it when things work as expected. Having been out of town for a couple of days I came back today and needed upload quite a few things to servers in the UK. As I was doing this…
HD-DVD Merchandising At Fry’s: The Look And Sound of Incompetance
I took this picture with the camera in my Blackberry Pearl back in November 2007. I was at Fry's Electronics in Houston to pick up a few things and thought I'd swing by the TV department to see what was…
Another Video Phone Company Bites The Dust, But The Idea Lives On
A few days ago Tom Keating over at TMC wrote a post detailing how Worldgate Communications is nearing the end of its rope. Worldgate was the company most recently behind the OJO VOIP/Videophone service. It's always sad when a company…
Netflix Dumps HD-DVD
Sigh, I guess this really is the end of HD-DVD. Today I received a nice email from Netflix telling me very simply that they won't be handling HD-DVD any longer. They'll continue to distribute the discs that they have, but…