"Blu-ray Disc" vs. "HD DVD": Neither Is Winning

[Tjalfe]

ANY current technology WILL be dead as disco, it is just not the time for the HD media disks yet.

[Jerry Jones]

http://www.tvpredictions.com/verizon110707.htm

Verizon's FiOS Adds Discovery HD
The telco plans to hit 150 HD channels next year.
By Swanni

Washington, D.C. (November 7, 2007) -- Verizon's FiOS TV service has added Discovery HD to its High-Definition lineup.

Joseph Whip, author of The Whip, a TVPredictions.com blog, reports that the channel was added this morning to the service's channel 846 in the Philadelphia area.

Discovery HD is a simulcast of the network's standard-definition feed. The network airs documentaries on science and nature.

Verizon, which now has roughly 30 high-def channels, said last week that it will double that number next spring and it will offer 150 HD channels by the end of 2008.

Yet another reason why "HD DVD" and "Blu-ray Disc" are as dead as DISCo.



Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Brian Ellis]

I'm not defeated but anyone who spams the same arguments and repeats the same text time and time and time again is a spammer and I thought I might gently(?) point this out to you.

So, please, STOP copy'n'pasting your own stuff n times. It shows only that you have no argument.

[Jerry Jones]

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2007/11/12/this_day/doc4738761a0969c239801436.txt

Radiohead download showed successes
Monday, November 12, 2007 7:55 AM PST

Fascinating new "direct download" business model may have actually succeeded, in spite of naysayers.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Jerry Jones]

IPTV: Exploding Growth

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2203227/europe-leads-global-rush-iptv

Europe still leads the global IPTV market, but China, eastern Europe and Russia are fast catching up, experts reported today. "In North America, Verizon and AT&T are growing considerably faster than we previously forecasted, and we expect Verizon to be the world's largest IPTV service provider in 2011," said Feldman. The analyst noted that MPEG-4/AVC is consistently replacing MPEG-2 in new installations, as MPEG-2 ceases to be sold even in cost-sensitive markets like China and eastern Europe.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[xortam]

We're expecting to start receiving SD and HD IPTV signals via C-Band Big Dish satellite within the next six months. The signals will be targeted mainly towards telcos and cable headends but us BUD users will be able to piggyback on that market and intercept the signals.

[Jerry Jones]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/technology/12intel.html?em&ex=1195016400&en=5948ff176ac1b8e1&ei=5087%0A

“It’s biggest impact is high-definition video,” he said. “It will be highly addictive.”

As consumers clamor for more Internet video, a huge computing burden is placed on companies like Google, Microsoft and providers of digital video, who must compress the video files so they can be streamed to desktop and portable computers.

Intel’s new family, made up of 16 processors, would first be used in servers and high-end desktops that compress the video. They are the first chips based on a new manufacturing process that Intel says will give it a significant competitive advantage by increasing computing performance while reducing power consumption.

The chips, which were developed under the code name Penryn, use a re-engineered transistor that is about half the size of its predecessor. It switches more quickly, requires less switching power and leaks less current than that previous transistor.

The chip industry measures its progress by the width of one of the smallest features of a transistor. Much of the industry is now building chips in what is known as 90-nanometer technology (a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter). At that scale, about 1,000 transistors would fit in the width of a human hair. Intel began making chips at 65 nanometers in 2005, about nine months before its closest competitors.

The Penryn chips are at the next stage of refinement, just 45 nanometers. The company said it would be able to squeeze up to 820 million transistors onto a single silicon die. The company is making the chips at two factories, in Oregon and Arizona. Next year, it will add two plants, in Israel and New Mexico.

The first products based on the new manufacturing technology will be Intel Core 2 and Xeon microprocessors. Chips for notebook PCs, marketed as the Intel Core 2 Extreme and Intel Core 2 Duo, will be available in the first quarter of next year.

To get better video compression, Intel has added a set of 46 instructions it calls SSE4 to the new microprocessors.

The leading designer of the new processor, Steve Fischer, said the new instructions would make possible a new generation of servers that enhance the compression of digital video.

“Video is becoming ubiquitous on the Web,” he said.

“This is a step in the right direction,” said Richard Doherty, president of Envisioneering, “and it’s probably the best use for this 45-nanometer technology over the next couple of years.”

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Jerry Jones]

Pinnacle ShowCenter 250HD:

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Digital+Media+Adapters/Digital+Media+Player/ShowCenter+250+HD.htm

It delivers high quality playback, including HD viewing of Windows Media Video 9, DivX HD and MPEG-2 file formats, digital audio output, and photo viewing in high definition resolution.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[paulw]

Not too bad for $199. Ditch the SCART and add HDMI would be a good step. Wonder if it plays H264??

[Jerry Jones]

http://www.nbc.com/Video/

NBC introduces "NBC Direct" downloads.

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[paulw]

http://www.nbc.com/Video/

NBC introduces "NBC Direct" downloads.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

Love this bit
"MUST RESIDE WITHIN THE U.S" "BROWSER NOT COMPATIBLE"
using Opera

[Brian Ellis]

Yup, I get the same, with Firefox. You must have Internet Exploder, which I NEVER use.

[Hulk]

Well I guess I should neutralize the only new bit of information you've posted recently Jerry.

Blockbuster is hurting NOT because of on-line downloading but because of Netflix. I used to do Blockbuster, now Netflix. And most of the people I know have switched as well.

NEWS FLASH! All the content you posted is still crap.

Penryn is going to be a great evolution of Core 2 Duo, no doubt about that. But there is also NO doubt that it'll be some time before companies start streaming in a format so complex that it takes the newest hardware to decode. Just like software companies don't write for the state of the art hardware, neither will these companies stream it. You know that makes sense and is the truth.

And for my final shell I shall remind you that not long ago YOU were arguing with me that HD in general would not take hold for many many years. I say it would by 2010 and you said NO WAY!!!

It is quite funny how I was right and now you are arguing that HD streaming is already upon us!

Ha! Ha! Ha! (Vincent Price laugh from "Thriller")

[Jerry Jones]

And for my final shell I shall remind you that not long ago YOU were arguing with me that HD in general would not take hold for many many years. I say it would by 2010 and you said NO WAY!!!

And you're wrong.

And I'm right.

I said the following:

"Mass acceptance of high definition is going to take much longer. I'd say 2012 at the earliest and high definition DVDs may never gain widespread adoption."

Link: http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php...highlight=2010

1. High definition DVDs are as dead as DISCo.

2. I still believe it's going to take until 2012 for the entire world to have the kind of broadband access to make high definition video accepted by the masses, but I think high definition downloads are already upon us in the industrialized nations.

I stand by my original assertions.



Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Brian Ellis]

And you're wrong.

And I'm right.
I still believe it's going to take until 2012 for the entire world to have the kind of broadband access to make high definition video accepted by the masses, but I think high definition downloads are already upon us in the industrialized nations.

No, you are not right. There is no way that at least 95% of users in industrialised nations (possible exception of S. Korea) would have connections permitting bitrates of the order of Mbit/s. Dammit, 1000 kbit/s is already at the limit for wired networking within a building. My own network is limited at 100 kbit/s. At least, without fibre optics. My usual ADSL link is usually at 500-800 kbit/s. For true HD, without severe compression artefacting, you need at least 5000 kbit/s.

May I respectfully suggest you gracefully admit that you made an error of judgement?