If you’ve been wanting to be among the last to buy an HD-DVD player for your XBox 360, it seems Best Buy has lowered the price from it’s original $199 to a fire sale price of $50.
Just don’t look for any new titles any time soon.
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Archive for February, 2008
With HD-DVD’s corpse not yet cold, the Blu-ray folks send word that they’ll be at North East Mall in Hurst next month to show off all the cool features of their technology. While you could basically get the same demo by strolling into any Best Buy store, the Blu-ray show will be showcasing not-yet-released Blu-ray titles, including Finding Nemo, which should look fantastic in HD. The event runs March 7-9 during normal mall hours. Popularity: 1% [?]
While sales were up 55 percent, inventory levels still rose 68 percent, compared to a 7 percent inventory drop in January of 2007 compared to December of 2006. From the report:
Full release after the jump. Popularity: 1% [?] My collegue Victor has been after me to blog this for a week or so, and on a slow Monday it’s not a bad idea. Popularity: 1% [?]
“EA is notably underrepresented in M-rated [Mature audience] content, this gives us additional M-rated content, in fact it gives us the world’s best M-rated content,” said John Riccitiello, chief executive. EA has focused on family fare, from its sports franchises to its Sims division and Harry Potter games, so one wonders whether it might water down and take some of the appeal away from Take-Two’s edgier titles. In case you need reminding, Take-Two has appeared to actively court controversy at times to hype its games. Manhunt 2, for example, was banned in Britain last year for its “unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone “. It was given an initial Adults Only [18+] rating in the US rather than a Mature [17+] one. Bully ran into trouble in Florida in 2006 when an anti-video-game-violence attorney Jack Thompson applied for a court ban on the playground bullying game. Before that, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was taken off store shelves in the US in 2005 after a hidden sex scene was discovered. Mr Riccitiello seems keen to take EA in this new direction, if not to the same extremes. At this month’s analyst day, he talked up the merits of Dead Space, an EA entry in the sci-fi horror genre being developed at its Redwood Shores headquarters and due for release later this year. Before then, he could turn the struggle for Take-Two into an M-rated contest itself if its management continues to resist the so-far friendly overtures. Popularity: 1% [?]
Mitsumi has developed a resistance-sensitive touchpad (haptic Touch Pad) to be installed on the back of mobile devices and phones. It is actually a sheet with small protrusions, a resistance sensitive touch pad and switches that is fixed on the device. The panel makes each raised bump a trigger button for the corresponding menu option on the other side GUI. This will in turn make using devices such as this easy using just one hand. Tags: Mitsumi haptic Touch Pad Popularity: 1% [?]
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Generally I use a lot of social sites and if they could leverage more of it on my mobile phone while on a night out in a trendy bar, then by all means, Im ok with it if I can get to meet some hot chick who looks like Jessica Simpson. Once a network has critical mass users will, depending on privacy settings, be able to walk into any gathering and see information on the people in the room. Whoever gets there first will have a far more valuable asset than the existing networks at MySpace and Facebook today. Social networks are about being social. And social implies being around other people. The device they have with them when they’re doing that, and which can enhance those social gatherings, is their mobile phone. The key to doing that is through GPS or cell phone triangulation (which the iPhone now has). Tags: iPhone-Only Social Network Popularity: 1% [?]
I wonder if they will charge by the second in Japanese yen, ouch. Popularity: 1% [?] Just in case you missed it, here’s a collection of everything we wrote this past week about the death of HD-DVD and the rise of Blu-ray. 2) If you are ready to buy a Blu-ray player, we tell you which one to get. Popularity: 1% [?] |
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