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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Hi-Def DVD Part III:  The War of the Discs

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When we last saw our intrepid hero, DVD, in 2002 or so, it had risen in just five short years to become the undisputed king of all physical distribution formats.  VHS had gone the way of the Old Republic, and tapes were relegated to the closeout bin and garage sales.  Falling prices and rapidly-improving technology was fueling consumer demand for High Definition (“HD”) televisions, and consumer electronics manufacturers were racing to develop a new physical distribution format capable of storing the vast amount of data required by HD.  UCSB professor and Millennium Technology Prize Laureate Shuji Nakamura had made this possible with his invention of the blue LASER diode.

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Sunday, May 04, 2008

Blu Ray, HD DVD, Format Wars, Sony Strikes Back

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As you may or may not remember, there was a battle going on in 2006 and 2007.  A battle fought largely on US soil.  A battle to win the hearts and minds of the US Consumer.  If you weren’t really paying attention, though, you might have missed it—this battle wasn’t featured nightly on the evening news.  While the economic and technological fight was real enough, the battle of HD-DVD v. Blu-ray to determine the physical content distribution format for high-definition video became, in many ways, the Format War that Wasn’t.

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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Megapixels: Myth or Reality?

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When it comes to technology, more is always better, isn’t it? More memory, more hard drive space, more screen resolution. In the case of digital cameras, you keep hearing – from manufacturers, sales people, and friends and family – that more megapixels are the measure of a camera’s quality.

But is this true? Or are we being sold a bill of goods? Well, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Megapixels are an important factor when choosing a digital camera. But they shouldn’t be the deciding factor, nor are they the most important.

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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

What’s a Smartphone, and Why Should You Consider Buying One?

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A friend of mine always says that he’ll never look at a mobile phone unless it packs a camera, a Web browser, and a death ray. Of course, he’s joking (at least about the death ray), but you can’t deny that today’s crop of mobiles does a lot more than just make calls. In fact, it’s hard to find a mobile that doesn’t let you do text messaging, take pictures or video, play games, or listen to music.

But there’s another category of mobile phones that do even more. They’re called smartphones, and they’re changing the way people look at, get, and use information.

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