This is why the movie studio's hate Redbox's $1 pricing even though they are being paid hundreds of millions of dollars. The only way to compete is steep discounting.
- Davis Freeberg
R/T @Hackingnetflix Movie popcorn is really bad for you ("nutritional equivalent of three Quarter Pounders topped with 12 pats of butter") http://www.latimes.com/news...
Given the choice, I think I'd rather have 3 quarter pounders.
- Davis Freeberg
Hard to believe that a venture fund lotto would even be legal, let alone attract desperate entrepreneurs. At $5,000 a piece, Hurley is pulling in $500,000 per round and only paying out $300,000 of it. http://finance.yahoo.com/news...
California ends up banning big screen TVs and in the process guarantees that they'll never get sales tax on any of my future TV purchases. Luckily, Nevada is just a couple hour drive away. http://newteevee.com/2009...
I currently have a 60" rear projector so yes they are made, but once you go that big you just can't go back
- Davis Freeberg
But your TV is still not affected by these rules.
- Anika
No, but my next one probably will be. Good chance I will end up with a plasma/lcd but I want one that's 100" and is like a movie theater
- Davis Freeberg
with plasma - a continuous station logo can burn into your screen. also, the light can be replaced with a lcd if it goes out, Not so with plasma
- Mekkar
Good point, I really just mean flat screen. If money was no object, I think I'd go 180" and set up an actual home theater room
- Davis Freeberg
Wow, Google is able to add caption information to all the user generated content on YouTube, but Netflix can't waste the time or money to do the same for professional Hollywood content http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
With only 20,000 memory sticks for sale and at a price of approximately $33 US, Paramount is still clearly in the testing phase, but the fact that they choose DivX demonstrates the clear advantage that DivX has over all of their other digital competitors. They have the only real solution for brick and mortar retailers. If Paramount tried to do this with a proprietary solution, it wouldn’t work because it wouldn’t give them a way to get that movie to the television. They could try to do it with Apple, but Apple doesn’t have the same reach to the TV, especially in Europe where this is being launched.
- Davis Freeberg