The amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it. (source: WindowsPhoneAppslist, July 2011)
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One million players is not enough for HD DVD to continue as a niche market.Those who purchased HD DVD players will be left out in the cold, but they did know that there was a strong chance of this happening when they bought them. It is safe to assume that whatever movie co's that were in the red camp on Friday, are probably already revaluating their positions this weekend. Most will release movies in red that are already burnt, packaged, and near release date on HD DVD, but will make no further releases in the format. These studios and other backers will start to pull the plug on HD DVD in the coming weeks, and align themselves with Blue Ray. HD DVD players will offically become expensive doorstops within a year. By then, studios will have dumped the format and will have begun re-releasing flicks initially burned for HD DVD, and releasing them again in BD format.
Expensive doorstops? I must've missed the part in my HD-A2's manual where it said that should the format war end with Blu-ray as the victor, all players and HD DVD media would simultaneously self-destruct in a Mission: Impossible style.
Seems more likely that every 6-12 months the last generation of Blu-ray players will be the so-called "expensive doorstops" as the BDA changes the spec again, nullifying all existing players by requiring additional hardware that can only come from a new, premium-priced player.
I think the Blu-ray fans call that the ability of the format to "evolve continuously" whereas anyone not blinded to the Gospel of HDM accoring to Saint Sony sees that it's a never-ending cycle of consumer rape...much like how a new version of HDMI seems to come out every 3-12 months.
Yep, and when those releases come out, there will be absolutely no advantage, as all they'll be is reauthored...not re-encoded. And there'll be a handy-dandy freeware program to let hd-dvd disc owners convert to Blu-Ray, and best of all it'll be cost effective, as hd-dvd drives will be cheap as hell.
I have a player, and thank goodness they don't spontaneously combust when there's an "obvious" death knell for the format! I have no plans to buy a Blu-Ray player until after a standalone player costs about half what the entry-level PS3 costs...and I have no intention of paying $400 for the 3rd-place console. So WB, you would have gotten money from me had you gone HD-DVD (and you already have), but now you'll have to wait a while. Ditto, Target.
I'm sorry, but RIGHT NOW, Blu-Ray is a sucker purchase. Call me in about a year. Until then, I guess I'm stuck with DVD.