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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Blu-ray as a format is more than just Blu-ray as a medium, just as HD-DVD was. I'm with them as far as that goes, but to say that upscaling MPEG2 standard definition content provides a result that rivals AVCREC or WMVDVD or HDREC is just ridiculous.
I think that providing HD content on standard dual layer DVD media is a better option than this silly crap, and even that is a pretty silly option (unless you're doing it yourself at home in lieu of buying 25 dollar a shot BDREs, like me, because 25 bucks is a lot...seriously).
Toshiba are currently working on exactly that also but it is not yet clear if both techs will be combined or seperate.
Toshiba have a patent for HD content on a DVD. The way it works requires two heads in the reader, one to read the normal DVD content and one to HD content off special layers. How the two are munged together is anyone's guess. Perhaps it works like DD+ where the HD layer holds the "difference" between the SD and HD content, or perhaps the HD layer holds an AVC equivalent of the movie in HD. It is certainly a horribly impractical solution, one which even if it appeared in players would be totally ignored by studios and production plants.
Toshiba are really fumbling the ball here. The Blu Ray market is still nascent enough that they could take a huge slice of it by producing quality players with compelling features while supplying the OEM channels with quality parts at the same time. At the moment they seem to be running around like headless chickens and there is little direction or sense to their plans.
Wow Xym, your on fire, do you ever have anything positive to say ??