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DLC, free-to-play, and in-app purchases are definitely here to stay. going by all the middle school and high school kids in my family, b&m retail is dying. slowly but surely
I thought blu ray holds like 50 gigabytes tho?

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It's going that way. Like you said, for some that's all we :eat: on these days. But for the masses...I always see people at those redbox kiosks when I pass one. I just shake my head.

I get unlimited content for like $10/month. When the media companies catch on and wise up, I'll go legit. But how they haven't already come together and worked out a DD subscription plan is beyond me. I'd gladly pay them instead, but until they make it reasonable...nope.

I mean, they're not going to stop producing content, why not cut out the middleman (I'm looking at you netflix) and lock in that recurring revenue. Are they really eating that good on VOD and physical media? Maybe I'm biased, but I can't see it.

Your local rental gallery is a thing of the past. It's really the next logical step. But I guess they're going to continue to lobby to legislate DD into oblivion first before they figure out it's never going to happen.
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fukk em.


yea give me a netflix type stream 15 a month with all the movies im down
 

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Are Ultrabooks an epic failure? | Digital Trends


Liquid is almost never wrong,
I knew those sales were bad...but not THAT bad.

NaiSim, remember when I told you years ago (maybe even back in the powerpc days) that if you are going to spend $1,000 on a laptop...you might as well buy a mac? I said it then, people seem to have that opinion NOW. Slow, but I knew this would become the trend. Intel and all those morons are finding out the hard way...only Apple can get away with that shyt.

I wonder how Vizio is doing lol.

:smugdraper: . anyway no one cares about 3d
 
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In bellevue; I'll tell you who is hyped about windows 8:


Microsoft employees
Spouses of microsoft employees

Developers think it will fail
Its vendors and channel partners KNOW it will fail

Everyone knows it will look cool, b ut choke. It reaks of VISTA
 

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what's an ssd? solid state drive? wwhats the difference between it and a HDD?​

No moving parts. Flash storage instead of magnetic. Huge speed difference and no latency due to near zero access times. They're better than an HDD in every way, just more expensive per gig.

It's the single best upgrade for a computer in terms of noticeable speed increase.
 

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3DTV. We can agree that nobody cares about this right? Who the fukk bought a 3DTV in here? How is that working out for you? How is that 3DS working out for Nintendo? :heh:

Nah, fukk that. I went to the NAB Show in Vegas this year, and I saw a bunch of FANTASTIC looking 3DTVs, with both passive and glasses-free technology, and many of them were in 4K.

3DTV will probably go the way of tablets and e-readers. They may die off for a few years, but then a new product will come and change the game (like the iPad and Kindle) and they'll be commonplace.

Blu-Ray is done after that.

Shut up.

Ultrabooks are just overpriced laptops. Get a cheap laptop, replace the regular hdd with an SSD and upgrade the ram to 8GB and you get the same shyt for about half the price.

THIS I agree with. Ultrabooks have the same problem that a lot of these non-iPad tablets have: they're trying to be an alternative to Apple, but they don't cost that much less. Why buy an Android tablet when the iPad is only a few hundred more? Why buy an ultrabook when most of them are only about $100 less than the cheapest Macbook Air?

Who is going to drop cable in 2013?

The only thing stopping that from happening is sports and maybe networks like HBO, FOX, and Cartoon Network forcing you to have a subscription to watch their shows online.

The 720 probably wont have a disc drive. Maybe an SSD + 3TB HDD?

Shut up.
 

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Nah, fukk that. I went to the NAB Show in Vegas this year, and I saw a bunch of FANTASTIC looking 3DTVs, with both passive and glasses-free technology, and many of them were in 4K.

3DTV will probably go the way of tablets and e-readers. They may die off for a few years, but then a new product will come and change the game (like the iPad and Kindle) and they'll be commonplace.



Shut up.



THIS I agree with. Ultrabooks have the same problem that a lot of these non-iPad tablets have: they're trying to be an alternative to Apple, but they don't cost that much less. Why buy an Android tablet when the iPad is only a few hundred more? Why buy an ultrabook when most of them are only about $100 less than the cheapest Macbook Air?



The only thing stopping that from happening is sports and maybe networks like HBO, FOX, and Cartoon Network forcing you to have a subscription to watch their shows online.



Shut up.
You think the 720 is going to have a blu ray drive? :heh:
 

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In bellevue; I'll tell you who is hyped about windows 8:


Microsoft employees
Spouses of microsoft employees

Developers think it will fail
Its vendors and channel partners KNOW it will fail

Everyone knows it will look cool, b ut choke. It reaks of VISTA
I tried that preview and was VERY disapointed. Microsoft still on its bullshyt throwing out beta for the public.

Windows ME = :huhldup:
Windows XP = :win:
Vista = :beli:
7 = :ahh:
8 = :scusthov:
 

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Watch as Windows 9 has the exact same features of Windows 8 and everyone will be like, "GOAT OS! Microsoft the GAWD! :bow:"
 

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...when has microsoft ever done that, outside of complete bs like millenium edition?

Well, the reception to Windows 7 has been positive for the most part. The thing is, outside of a few surface level changes (the Superbar being the most notable change to come to mind), Windows 7 isn't really much different from Vista.
 

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Well, the reception to Windows 7 has been positive for the most part. The thing is, outside of a few surface level changes (the Superbar being the most notable change to come to mind), Windows 7 isn't really much different from Vista.
uses less resources, its fine tuned...Vista crashed a whole lot.

Microsoft releases betas...
 
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