Comments on: HD DVD is stupid.

By: Sian Wood

Sian Wood — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:49:46 +0000

Bluray is the new standard for the dvd movies, hd dvd player has lost.

Microsoft will change to Blu-ray.

By: bbum’s weblog-o-mat » Blog Archive » HD-DVD Month Three: New Levels Of Suck Achieved.

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:02:01 +0000

[...] Old school DVDs with more damage play back just fine, including on my HD DVD player. And the user experience sucks; slow to load, mandatory “web updates”, and “unskippable” ads [...]

By: bbum

bbum — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:35:33 +0000

I agree that the community aspects of Netflix are quite interesting, but I’m not sure if it is something that would actually matter to any significantly large chunk of the market.

Price point? Seems like it is priced right in line with the various pay-per-view type offerings, maybe better.

As per selection, the selection — though limited — is already better than what I can get on my DirecTV DVR at any given moment. And, of course, this is just the current selection. Even in the week+ since launch, the selection has been quite steadily growing. I suspect that there are quite a few very hot CPUs dedicated to encoding and importing content!

By: Tim Trautmann

Tim Trautmann — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:54:57 +0000

I agree with Robert on points 1-3. The iTunes movie selection is pathetic. And they just pulled the only foreign film before I could hit that “rent” button: “The lives of others”
Not sure if buying Netflix is such a good idea though, they’d inherit lots of shipping facilities with DVDs in them. I don’t think Apple wants to be in that kind of business.

By: Robert 'Groby' Blum

Robert 'Groby' Blum — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:56:06 +0000

I had high hopes for Apple’s movie rentals, too, but there are a few things that will keep me with Netflix right now

1) The selection Apple has right now is *crap*. There are a total of 20 or so movies right now.
2) Price point. I tend to watch a lot of movies – even if some of them only for 15 minutes;) – and I’d be out a lot more than the twenty bucks I pay Netflix at the moment
3) The UI. iTunes rental store right now is a disaster. It’s incredibly difficult to find things you like. Netflix is way ahead there.
4) Community – the ratings provided by other Netflix users are quite helpful when you’re looking for new things.

If I were Steve Jobs, I’d consider buying Netflix – they’ve got the community, they’ve got a better web UI, and they have a media streaming deal already worked out.