Re: THX blu-ray opinion...

Skyhawk can you provide a link to prove these ridiculous claims??

I'm kidding.

I think its great news. Less room, it fits in your pocket, easy to transport. We all like when transfering or saving data. We liked it when Dvd took over Vhs beacuse of those same reasons.Its the future of things to come, but for now its not.

[Post edited by soydelsol on Mar 26, 2008]

Here's an interesting article on the viability of USB drives for movies:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/buying-movies-on-flash-cards-nice-idea-that-doesnt-work/

Why do you need to download the whole movie from the USB drive? It just needs enough bandwidth to be able to stream it smoothly for watching it...

...oh, and technology is evolving, so whatever 'cons' we all have, are just months to be obsolete...

mvckalel, didn't you read any of my posts?

Anyway, flash memory and VOD services would be two competing rental options for HD content in the future (among many others). As I said before the flash thing would be best suited to where adequate bandwidth won't be available for HD VOD, such as rural areas. Personally, I couldn't see anyone using the flash memory thingy to stand in line at a kiosk to download their movie if they have instant VOD at home available. That would be silly.

I'd rather have a flash card (like the ones we use in our digital cameras) with a movie already in it, instead of a disc...since I'm pretty sure the files will play regardless of format...

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Naw wii-lite, FUD is FUD when you present things as fact which are either untrue or just an opinion in order to further the FUD agenda.

And that's a fact!

ok, so based on your own interpretation of FUD, your prior comment is FUD because:

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Remember, I said 5 years from now before the price for that USB "shopping" bag comes down enough and has enough capacity to do this rental kiosk thing. By that time, I'm sure we'll have USB 3.0 standards, that will allow a 30GB movie to be transferred in 5 minutes or less.

Alright... so I'm guessing here

Unless you have direct access to companies which are developing USB technology and provided you with exact release dates for USB 3.0, it sounds to me like you are presenting things as "an opinion", and since you consider an opinion to be FUD then your own comments are FUD too. Now THAT is a fact since I'm using your exact own words.

BTW, since when giving an opinion is FUD?
Opinion: "An opinion is a person's ideas and thoughts towards something. It is an assessment, judgment or evaluation of something."

FUD: "FUD is generally a strategic attempt to influence public perception by disseminating negative (and vague) information."

In my opinion, most of my comments fit more the definition of "opinion" since I make an assessment, judgment, and evaluation of the topic at hand before making a statement. It has never being my intention to "influence public perception by disseminating negative (and vague) information". Time has actually proven most of my opinions to turn into fact. Even LH (who has strongly accused me in the past as spreading FUD) has finally acknowledged that some of my "FUD comments" are/might real.

And that's also a fact.

[Post edited by wii-lite on Mar 27, 2008]

Umm, I bought a 64Gb USB Flash Drive for $199 last week... 128Gb are expected to hit store by fall for the same price.

[Post edited by ReaggieP on Mar 27, 2008]

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Umm, I bought a 64Gb USB Flash Drive for $199 last week... 128Gb are expected to hit store by fall for the same price.

See wii-lite? I told you they were getting cheaper and higher capacity!

ReaggieP,

I'm interested in where you picked that up, cause I'd be in the market for one. I was considering this 32GB Kanguru for $300, but was told it was crap:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2863967&CatId=2634

It seems the 16GBs are better value these days, at least compared to that. I'd also be interested in an ultra-high speed Compact Flash card of 32Gb, but 64Gb would just make my day!

[Post edited by Skyhawk on Mar 27, 2008]