Practical Technology

When Apple first talked about movie rentals, one of the downers about it was that movies would be released 30-days after they appeared in DVDs. Well, maybe some studios are holding out on Apple TV and video iPod customers, but many are letting Apple sell and/or rent movies at the same time as they appear [...]

Toshiba executives haven’t made an official statement, but the word is leaking out from multiple sources: HD DVD is dead.
The hand-writing has been on the wall for months now. Any doubt that HD DVD was losing to Blu Ray should have been removed last week when both Netflix and Best Buy announced that they [...]

I recently discovered that a neighbor had bought an HD-DVD player. Whoops. If only I had known I would have told them the last thing they should be buying is an HD-DVD player.
The writing on the wall has been clear for some time now. HD-DVD is dead. Oh, you can still find HD-DVD players [...]

The arguments over which HD format was better started the moment they rolled off the factory floor. Now, they no longer matter. Blu-Ray has won, HD-DVD has lost and now there’s little more than waiting for the HD-DVD house of cards to finish falling down.
What finally determined HD-DVD fate wasn’t which one was technically [...]

According to the Wall Street Journal, which is owned by News Corp., which also owns Fox, Fox is getting ready to rent movies to Apple’s iTunes users. This come as no great surprise since Apple has been planning on going into the movie rental business for months now.
The story doesn’t go into any details. [...]