The only thing I can say about HD is that I finally got some HD stock footage where it will pass technical evaluation at Shutterstock and Fotolia due to a freebie utility program. No HD TV here and real desire to get one. My old TV shows on DVD look just fine with no commercials.
I hate watching the football games in 720p on Fox. I agree with him on that one...that is really one of my pet peeves.
Blu-Ray?
I’m still not convinced that Blu-Ray is worth the switch over, unless forced to. I don’t know if the difference is worth it.
The RCA CED Video Disk that used a small diamond to track a video disk. It was 14 year old technology when they tried to market it.
The RCA XL-100 TV flyback transformer. It combined the TV power transformer and the high voltage flyback picture tube voltage. They broke about every two years and RCA had to replace them for free.
I bought a Tivo once.
It cost a couple of hundred dollars and 10 bucks a month.
You could fit like 6 low def tv shows on it.
My GF at the time would fill it with Ozzy’s show(i already forget it’s name) and Y+R.
What a frigging waste of money.
I really wish Comcast would allow a flash drive supplement to my current rented DVR, the box has a USB port.
Even it’s hard drive is paltry when recording HD.
I had Cablevision during that period of Voom network, number 3 on this list. Voom had a great set of original programming and programs picked up from Europe. I think only two programs are still in production from all of those dozens, Three Sheets with Nick Lamprey and an extreme sports travelogue show.
I miss the days of 24/7 hi def nature shows with hi def 4.1 audio, used to run it as background noise at work.
#2 is wrong, and dumb, but the rest of the list looks pretty good.
Toshiba made a good DVD burner with a 160/250GB Hard Drive and decent editing software. I could record stuff off the digital cable onto the Hard Drive, eidt out the commercials and burn standard DVD-Rs. Unfortunately I killed it and then I found out they’d stopped making them.
I don't believe that for a second. If there are people in that situation, they're dumber than the idiots who hung out in New Orleans for Katrina.
OUCH!
He’s got #5 exactly back-assward; HD-DVD was the agreed format, worked on for years by manufacturers and content providers, when Sony decided to pee in the pool, ditch the consortium, and launch its own proprietry HD format. Sony then spent billions in bribes and ‘incentives’ to muscle others into accepting Blu. The final blow was a half-a-billion dollar bribe to Warners to get their agreement to switch exclusively to Blu; within days, Toshiba folded. Up to then it could have gone either way.
Sony svcks.
And regarding VOOM, executive greed got the better of that company. Its HD programming was superior to anything anyone else was offering back then, and superior to most HD (Oprah, anyone? Green?) even today. Their failure to reach agreement on contract renewals with Dish killed them when Dolan wouldn’t moderate his demands. Just plain stupid.
So I never understood why the TiVo could not parlay their invention into market dominating force, and had to let cable operators steal it from them.
The DVR along with the Smartphone were major behavior changers of the decade.
He knows it is a niche market.