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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action Last week we took a look at what’s happened for Blu-ray since it cast its nemesis, HD DVD, to the fiery gates of obsolescence. But what’s next? BD-Live isn’t the killer app we hoped it might be, so what can blu-ray offer us to fight off the threat of IP entertainment?
It’s been well over a year since the Blu-ray army stood over the vanquished HD DVD foe, the ground splattered with the remains of Toshiba’s golden child and the sun setting on yet another format war. But has Blu-ray stepped up to take its place as the rightful HD heir to the home entertainment throne?
I remember I used to watch Astroboy as a kid. I don’t remember what it was like, but I have vague recollections of watching him die. Or maybe that was just the free-to-air networks killing another show that I enjoyed.
3D Cinema is nothing new – It’s been around in various shapes and forms since the late 1800s with stereoscopes and multiple projectors – but 2009 is the year that we’ll really start to see films being released in 3D on a large scale, rather than just special feature events down at IMAX.
But is it the revolution that cinema seems to so desperately need, or just a not-so-cheap gimmick that is more about raising revenue and lessening piracy for the internet age?
Australian Trekkies take note: The world premiere of J.J Abrams’ Star Trek is happening in Sydney on April 7. That’s world premiere… before the US, before the UK… It’s like the inverse of a gadget release.
