Sony Museum of Low Resolution- WTF?

Well Sony professional is offering a free DVD!!! on its XD HD camera doing some HD production.

That was actually kinda cool...

God, is there anything left for Sony to do to make me hate them more?

I think they dropped some good acid, man!

Well, they won the battle and lost the war and they are cocky now until.........they get brutally crushed by hd downloads........the market will prevail and i bet toshiba will be there............

We're probably going to start selling that Vudu system. Pretty cool. Not true high-rez yet, but it has one major advantage. If you have kids movies, you don't have any BS or hoops to jump through bypassing trailers and menus and FBI warnings - click and play. Big deal if you have kids!

This website has been up for over a year. Its not new.

I would bet "Not"

that isn't totally true on all movies. Some studios agreements with vudu require the warnings at the start still. However, I do believe you can FF through them with the scroll wheel.

that being said, I feel that for most normal screens, say a typical 50" or so, the vudu offers a great picture quality and the easiest interface possible for a lower budget option.

That's good to know. Well, as long as there's no trailers, start up time and extra menus!

it's painful getting an HD-DVD up and running for a projector demo!

"Well, they won the battle and lost the war and they are cocky now until.........they get brutally crushed by hd downloads........the market will prevail and i bet toshiba will be there............"

I will take your action....

Are you betting not on Toshiba being there? Because on that one, I definitely agree. But everything is pointing towards digital downloads as the eventual final winner, although I don't agree with the time frame that most analysts claim.

welcome back

I agree with everything you say

The thing that is happening is that Direct and Dish are very quickly putting the kind of machines necessary for downloading into peoples' homes without even being aware of it. Suddenly, when the spigot goes on, I think it could be crushing to BD. It's not exactly racing out of the gate. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple is selling as many AppleTVs as BD is selling, outside of PS3 where it is basically along for the ride.

Edit - Apple's sold something close to a million ATVs in the last year. BD has sold something like 3 million including PS3 in, what, 2-3 years? And I think PS3 is about 2/3rd of that number.

you've got to love that Steve Jobs. One dollar annual salary and stock options

The thing for me, and a lot of other people, is that we want / need some method of effectively backing up these downloads. The media companies don't seem to be particularly keen on this matter, at least in terms of burning individual discs. The technology is certainly there, I'm just not sure that the implementation is going to be successful. But then again, I've been wrong quite a few times before.

OB -- I've been lurking off and on the whole time, just haven't seen much worth commenting on in this forum lately. Things seem to be getting back on track, though.

Vudu apparently allows you to reload any purchased software again if your hard drive fails, so it seems to me that, done properly, the seller can be the software backup.

Oh, I am sure Microsoft or Apple could have come up with something similar.

also, vudu is going to be able to be used somewhat like the kscape system (yes, its not the same...) with networking between the boxes. Their server is going to be $1000 and allow for client units in the other rooms. This to me will make the system extremely popular to say the least.

The only downside I see is the inability to load your own movies onto the system. For a young person just starting out with kids on the way, it's perfect or maybe as an addition to an existing system. And you're hooked into buying movies from them, as you would be with ATV.

Why do you need to backup? box fries, copies are still accessible. just a re-download. box gets full, things you do not watch alot get deleted except for the first little while, that way if you want to watch again, it starts streaming once you hit play.

Not sure if they work exactly this way, but it is the general idea.

i honestly see this as the strength behind vudu that allowed them to get all the studios on board including many independents.
I have to say, they showed up where I work for a training one day and I was very impressed. They were able to answer everything (even the tough pointed questions...) with honesty and desired real world feedback on their products. They talked quite extensively about the issues in getting the studios on board and how they worked around the various roadblocks tossed up by the same studios that can only benefit from this.

All of that being said, I doubt vudu will really find a place in the "purist" home theater for quite some time. However, i'm still worried that with the flip of a switch, outfits like comcast could offer a huge crushing amount of contact via on-demand at probably lower prices then vudu could negotiate.

Do you have an internet connection that is both fast enough / reliable enough to handle streaming a high definition film? I don't. Don't get me wrong, I really like the idea (and thank you for answering my backup concerns, seems they've covered that already), but things just aren't quite there yet in my mind. I really do wish they were.