Yesterday I erroneously reported that YouTube was planning on adding 30-second bumper ads before their videos next year. I was going off a report from April that I didn’t realise was old, one written before Google announced their plans to use layover ads instead. Google hasn’t changed their plans since then as far as we know. More »
Apparently the one million Zunes sold celebration we told you about yesterday was just a tiny little bit preemptive, thanks to a slightly bigger mistake by the Chronicle. The error? Mis-transcribing an interview with Robbie Bach. Instead of claiming one million Zunes sold, Bach actually claimed:
Bach: When we finish our fiscal year in June we’ll have sold a little over a million Zunes, so we feel very good about that.
So Microsoft actually has yet to sell that millionth Zune, and has one month left to do it. – Jason Chen
Microsoft’s Zune: Still Shy of 1 Million Sales [Business 2.0]
We got two things wrong this week. We’d incorrectly said the sub-$1000 Yamaha RX-V861 would upscale your non-HD sources to 1080p. It actually only goes to 1080i.
Then, we’d described the JVC HD-58S998 as a DLP. Silly us, it’s an LCoS or Liquid Crystal on Silicon display under JVC’s D-ILA branding. Both posts have been corrected.–Brian Lam
