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weaktwosThis is why Blu-ray is pissing me off.
A special edition of Robocop is coming out on regular DVD, but they are releasing the Blu-ray without those extras. At least so far. Maybe they'll change their tune. This after HD is able to offer a number of fun PIP Extras on their dvds. To be fair, there are a lot of older movies being released on HD-DVD that are meager on extra features, too. But nothing seems to coming out on Blu-ray, wherase 300, Heroes Season 1, and other movies are offering some fun special features.
In other news, my macbook magsafe power adaptor has shown signs of current overload and some melting of the cable just near the power brick portion of the adaptor. Not happy. But, thankfully, this is the first time I've had to replace my power adaptor. Still, I'm not pleased. And would you believe all the places near me are sold out? However, Serendipity is mine, for a Best Buy near an event I'll be going to out in Rocklin, CA tonight has it in stock.
Work is reasonable. We had a bit of a long meeting today, but there was much smartassery had behind the scenes. All was well.
I hope your Fridays are going well!
A special edition of Robocop is coming out on regular DVD, but they are releasing the Blu-ray without those extras. At least so far. Maybe they'll change their tune. This after HD is able to offer a number of fun PIP Extras on their dvds. To be fair, there are a lot of older movies being released on HD-DVD that are meager on extra features, too. But nothing seems to coming out on Blu-ray, wherase 300, Heroes Season 1, and other movies are offering some fun special features.
In other news, my macbook magsafe power adaptor has shown signs of current overload and some melting of the cable just near the power brick portion of the adaptor. Not happy. But, thankfully, this is the first time I've had to replace my power adaptor. Still, I'm not pleased. And would you believe all the places near me are sold out? However, Serendipity is mine, for a Best Buy near an event I'll be going to out in Rocklin, CA tonight has it in stock.
Work is reasonable. We had a bit of a long meeting today, but there was much smartassery had behind the scenes. All was well.
I hope your Fridays are going well!
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Date: 2007-09-14 09:18 pm (UTC)As for the 51GB 3-layer HD DVD disc - there are still conflicting reports on that. A number of outlets reported the DVD Forum approved it - but then news came out that the DVD Forum's Steering Committee, which has final say, had NOT yet voted on the spec and thus it was NOT officially approved yet. And while it is expected that the new 3rd generation players coming out would handle it, and *maybe* 2nd generation players with a firmware update, based on statements from Toshiba in the past it looks like the first generation of HD DVD drives couldn't play 3-layer discs.
Of course, 3-layer discs mean production line changes - which defeats one of HD DVD's claimed advantages over Blu-ray (not needing those changes). And it is interesting since, to date, the HD DVD camp's mantra has been "30GB is enough - you don't need BD's 50GB capacity!", followed by "Blu-ray is an incomplete spec - HD DVD is finalized!" Now they introduce a revision to the spec - so much for finalized - and boost capacity - so much for 30GB is enough. :-)