Sony's Betamax Redux: Betaray

Sony has announced that on March 23 they are going to roll out the entertainment industry's next medium, Blueray. (Here is more info on Blueray and HD-DVD). Sony will release Blueray players with 8 blueray titles: "50 First Dates," "The Fifth Element," "Hitch" and "House of Flying Daggers." The real question is why? The fifth element was filmed (not in high definition "HD") in 1997, is the quality of the original source worth bringing to blueray's HD standards?. And how bad to you want to watch 50 first dates in HD? Most think that there needs to be a new medium other then dvd that can hold HD quality data to be played on the growing market of HD LCD and HD Plasma monitors. Making the consumer pick between Blueray and HD-DVD complicates the market, no one wants to go out and spend $350 on a sony Blueray player only to find out that the Lord of the Rings Trilogy is only going to be released on HD-DVD. Lets hope sony does not create another Betamax.

Punked by Apple

At 10 o'clock PST all eyes were on the Apple HQ in Cupertino California, everyone was anticipating the new "it" gadget of 2006 to be released.... the new iPod video.... the Mac Tablet... so what does Apple release....

1) New Mac mini which is 2.5x - 3.2x faster than current Mac mini in two new versions, single and dual-processor chip.
2) iPod Hi-Fi (iPod Boombox) @ $349
3) New iPod case made out of leather for both 5G iPods and iPod Nanos @ $99

pfft ...

Intel P4 Uber overclocking

These guys (russian or french its hard to tell), thought it would be cool to overclock their Intel P4 processor and take the heat sink off.. this only can mean one thing, processer vaporizing. (watch here.)

Apple Update *02.23.06*

• Apple computers iTunes online store has hit the one billion tracks sold mark, average track cost = 99 cents x one billion + iPod sales, do the math Apple is in the money.

• Pictures have leaked of the new true iPod video or the Apple tablet PC, sources are still not sure, yet they are sure the pictures are real. (take a look at it for yourself.) *new info on the iPod, look at this posts comments*
  

• Apple is holding a "new product event" February 28th, this is where this new product the "True iPod Video" or "Tablet PC" will be unveiled.

Halo 3 and the 2nd wave of xbox 360 games

Shane Kim from Microsoft Studios talks with Next-Gen about the 2nd wave of xbox 360 games to hit the market, Kim also talks about Halo 3 and a "mythical" launch date to be set this year. Kim later goes on to comment on sony's ps3. (Read more here.)