Archive for September, 2007
LOLCATS.COM – Funny Lolcat Pictures
If you love cats, then this or this may not be the page for you. Some of the pictures are funny but it’s the captions that make it hilarious. This has been covered by other blogs and podacasts and I’m putting it on my blog as well. Enjoy and have a laugh!
99 cents per show – There apparently was more to NBC’s decision to pull its shows out of the iTunes Store than we were led to believe. Apple is reportedly pushing the concept of cutting the prices of TV shows to 99¢.I must agree with Apple’s pricing strategy. It would match with a a lot of peole’s views. Why should I pay for something that I can normally get it for free? I think that even the $1.99 was a stretch. When the DVDs the come out, you can get better quality off the DVD which is cheaper than the stuff that comes out of the iTunes store. Not to mention the poor quality of the files that comes out of the iTunes store when played on an HDTV. I saw the Apple TV on display at the Apple Store and the quality was very bad. Think YouTube.I’m waiting for NBC’s press release on this. This actually makes their $4.99 seem ludicrous. But if Apple can get HD content out of that iTunes store and put it in my Apple TV and iPod touch I’ll gladly pay the $1.99 they’re charging now. Now they have to figure out how to get that HD file size into our home without hogging all our bandwidth and won’t take forever.
According to the Reuters News Agency, Robotech is coming to the big screen. Carl Macek’s vision of the future based on Macross, Southern Cross and Mospeada anime series will finally get the live-action treatment much like Transformers did.
I assume that Tobey Maguire will be playing Rick Hunter. But how this all plays out will be very interesting. The article does not say an estimated release date for the movie. It also mentions that FOX also picked up the rights to Voltron. Not sure if it’s the cars or the lions. I wouldn’t be surprised if another studio picks up the Gundam franchise at this rate.
Warner Brothers has the rights to the movie and no director has been announced.
I just hope that when these “big robot” movies come out, they wont be out of style just yet.
Apple’s substantial 33 percent price drop (of $200) on the 8GB iPhone just a little over 60 days after the product was introduced has left hundreds of thousands of users wondering whether Apple was just gouging its faithful customers when it priced the popular device at $599 and $499 at its launch at the end of June. Early aWell it was bound to happen sooner or later. It’s the usual pain for early adopters but as my mother would say. Can your $200 make you happy as when you bought the iPhone ahead of everyone else? Was Apple wrong in releasing the iPhone first? I had originally thought that the touch screen iPod would be the first to come out and then the phone. Or make the announcement at the same time. Well it’s their strategy and it the announcement didn’t seem to pay off in Wall St. with a 5% drop in Apple stock after the announcement. Maybe all of those were initial iPhone users or people speculating that the stock would rise on the announcement of the new iPods.Either way, it’s now a little more complicated in buying an iPod.
Apple today announced major updates to the iPod family at its “The Beat Goes On” special event in San Francisco. The iPod shuffle saw a refresh with new colors and packaging, an all-new iPod nano was introduced, as well as the iPod classic (which replaces the original “iPod” in the company’s lineup), and the all-new iPod tou…Now this is the announcement I’ve been waiting for almost a year now. I have been waiting for that RED (PRODUCT) Shuffle and that touch screen iPod and for once it seems my predictions were right. But I’m really getting that 16GB iPod touch. It seems to be the perfect for users who already have a larger capacity hard drive but wanting an iPhone without the phone. The built-in WiFi is impressive and here’s hoping that they’ll be able to put the whole iTunes store in the wifi store. The Starbucks integration is a nice touch. The ability to buy and download the song playing in the store is impressive. I wont be surprised if other stores will follow suit. Seems like it was a bad call for NBC to move their shows off iTunes.
The ramens emergency kit!!! : Akihabara News .com
I must say that this is an essential kit for any ramen lover (or East Asian) and probably for any student. But I would replace the lighter with matches though. You can never tell when you need it and you’re out of lighter fuel.
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Showing us that it’s not all about Hulu, NBC inks a download deal with Amazon just days after the public spat between Apple and NBC. What’s Unbox got that Apple doesn’t? Flexible pricing and less “flexible” DRM.Now there must be something wrong with this picture. Why would I want to buy my videos from Unbox? Sure I love their “other” business which is selling tangible products such as books and CD’s. But their digital endeavor is somewhat “restrictive” in my opinion. I don’t mind that I can play my content only on two computers but the main fact is that I cannot play any of it on my mac or in my ipod is absolutely unacceptable.NBC isn’t charging more for their shows on Amazon (although they must be getting a bigger cut) they apparently prefer it because there’s “more DRM” than Apple. I must admit it’s still a flaky argument in their leaving the iTunes store.Most digital providers out there (other than iTunes) do not work on macs let alone the ipod. iPods account for more than 70% of the digital handheld market. The whole thing still doesn’t make sense to me.It must be frustrating to be in the movie studio/ music label industry right now that the very business model that they’ve been hanging on to since forever was turned upside down by the internet and digital conversion. And now one of the easiest ways to merge the two together was thought out by the Apple brains in Cupertino and not by them. Originally thought that it would fail they agreed to put their content on and now over 2 billion songs later, it’s not much of a struggle as it was five years ago when anarchy ensued in the digital market. If things stay the way they are now the same environment five years ago will come back much stronger.And why are we still paying for television? Why are we even having this argument? Fire up the TiVOs everyone!
As the link above states it seems that the iPhone is on track with it’s sales. This blogger wonders if the number would have been higher if the device was open. (Meaning not locked to AT &T). With the eminent release of the iPhone sim unlocker which liberates new iPhones to be used with any carrier the user chooses things could change very drastically in the Smart Phone market.
Either way these are still very competitive numbers for a phone maker with it’s first phone in the market.
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TOYSREVIL’S I LIKE TOYS: blackout
I just love innovation. Especially when LEGO is involved. Here’s a guy who made a fully transformable Decepticon with LEGO bricks. More pics after the jump.
This is a great article by ilounge.com’s Jeremy Horowitz. He cites some great talking points about the NBC-Universal-Apple spat over the iTunes Store.
And more video on how the iTunes Store got started.
Procrastinating in the Heat 