@(Unverified) I voted you up on this, but to be fair, I think that publishers should charge exactly as much as they can to realize the profit that they wish to.

That having been said, piracy is rampant, and extremely easy. Charge enough, and you'll just piss people off and force them into piracy. Same deal with playing around with release dates.

I'm a huge capitalist, but I'm also a realist. While I look to competition to result in the best product possible, and believe that any good capitalist should try to maximize the return on their work, I also realize that we don't like in 14th-century Europe. You can hate piracy all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that it exists one iota. People are willing to pay money for things, but as far as paying for information goes, whether in the form of data, entertainment, or anything else, as the price and inconvenience rises, so does the rate of piracy. Charge $3 to download an HD-quality movie with no DRM over your cell phone, and tons of people will buy it; charge $100 to download an SD-quality movie with tons of DRM over a wired Internet connection, and you're going to rapidly find out why things like Napster, Suprnova, The Pirate Bay, and whatever comes next exist.

It's very cool that these flash memory-based cameras have HDMI-output on them, but I'd really like to see more manufacturers putting out HDMI capture cards. These cameras actually have a good enough image quality at this point that you can use them as professional production cameras in a live studio environment. The only problem is, nobody makes HDMI capture cards. Blackmagic does (Intensity Pro), and I think there are one or two extremely expensive options as well, and that's it. None of them are very good (Blackmagic is the best). It'd be very cool to be able to use these as a camera on your computer, even in lieu of a webcam. And before you say "consumer hardware and Internet connections can't handle 1080p!", please keep in mind that chipsets for decoding 1080p are extremely available at this point, and even if you scale the 1080p down to something like 360p for streaming, it still looks fantastic because the image sensor in these cameras is 10,000 times better than your average webcam.

@(Unverified) Well thank goodness it doesn't use the same landing method that the Space Shuttle employs...

Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you - just one word.
Ben: Yes sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Ben: Yes I am.
Mr. McGuire: 'Nanotubes.'
Ben: Exactly how do you mean?
Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in nanotubes. Think about it. Will you think about it?
Ben: Yes I will.
Mr. McGuire: Shh! Enough said. That's a deal.

@jinushaun Right, FTC will block it, Comcast will send a wave of lawyers and lobbyists, FTC will rescind block, but make them give in 1-2 concessions, and merger will go through.

Welcome to America, 2010. Money talks, and the collective population can't speak with as succinct a voice as a single mega-corp can. The only solution is to begin chopping the size of our government down.

@(Unverified) My biggest problem with Comcast is not their capitalistic tendencies (that's just good business). Rather, it is that they have a HUGE footprint in the telecomm AND entertainment industry, and drag their heels and stall advancement of technology until absolutely necessary. They are able to do this due to their sheer size and power. Any other normal business that acted like this would be out of business within four quarters. On top of that, they collude with the legal departments of the entertainment industry to do things like cap bandwidth (which costs them literally nothing, so the only possible incentive is backroom deals with the entertainment industry), and manipulate government at all levels to have special considerations given to them.

Basically, Comcast is the reason that capitalism gets a bad rep. Companies that climb to the top, and then use their vast resources to push down their competitors (or even worse, change the rules to discourage competition altogether) should be dismantled.

@(Unverified) I wish Comcast was a person so that it could die in a fire.

Oh, Comcast assures us everything will be alright? No need to panic. Nothing could possibl-i go wrong...possibl-y go wrong...huh.

@(Unverified): HE'S ON FIRE!

@(Unverified): Yeah, but where are you going to find an actual copy of "From Justin to Kelly" on DVD? I thought they were all destroyed.