Ok, tell me how this competes with an EX1/EX3...? Except on price? AVCHD is not impressive. I have yet to get good footage from an AVC-Cam that wasn't shot mid-day in sunlight. You shoot in low light situations and AVC shows its real colors, or better, noise.

Maybe Sony can do what Canon and Panny haven't been able to do, make AVCHD an acceptable format for a wide range of shooting conditions.. We'll see.

Of course....I just ordered the refurbished 1st gen last week.......@#$%^&*

Wedding Video sample for a client, coulda really used the disc printer to make a cleaner looking disc :-)

You are forgetting that most people don't want 3G on their blackberry for bragging rights, they want it for tethering. They want to combine their data card with a good handset and carry one thing around.

Both Sprint and VzW have high[er] speed Blackberries capable of tethering, and charge a nominal fee for it. Versus ~$60 additional to your handset. I think Sprint charges $15 for the tether add-on??

This is not news. Rewind to 1998 when all the carriers started selling their assets and ownership of towers to companies like Crown and TowerCo. Carriers were all building thier own towers, lets see, 2-6 carriers per market, there would have been towers on every street corner, so thats when tower mgt companies started to appear. They lease space on the property and "tower" to each carrier....and they manage all of the cell-site stuff.

Anyway, this is typical, companies sell and lease all the time to bolster the coffers, then when it makes sense, they buy the assets back to show growth, welcome to the world of public companies, EPS, and balance sheets.

I would only hope Sprint is savvy enough to use the money to grow parts of their business that will afford more revenue growth and help them throw the shovel out of the hole....the market needs a fourth leg to the tripod

>beating dead horse<
I think it says Spirit not Sprint, thats the name of the album, not the carrier.






I'm # * with a comment about Spirit! woot

I agree. This is just another reason to Metallica to screw off. There are a couple of songs that I love because they are from my "time", but they arent that good...

Anyway, I also agree, greed has messed up this band.

I agree with Tony on all points, except the actual logo. If you look at the old ,mac logo it was pretty cool by depicting all the things .mac does with the .mac sphere and the pictures flying around, film strips and music notes etc, I think a re-done version of that would have been cool, but I digress. I think the service is just what all of us .mac users have been pining for, for years....so I'm in for another 12mo for sure and here's hoping it's all it's cracked up to be!

Hey folks, let's not get wrapped up on this quite yet, we have a *few* months to go before this takes off. Let's see what develops over the next 9-12 months.

"They argue that broadband music sales through the mobile iTunes store somehow should bring them a greater profit than sales through the standard iTS, pointing to industry practice for ringtone and ringback sales." Well then good for Apple for telling them no. So IF I use my iPhone to buy an album using the built-in app, I should pay a premium? riiight.
So Amazon should charge more for me buying through AmazonMobile??
Shame on us as consumers for allowing this shite to get this far. A song is a song, if it's worth $0.99 from my home computer, then it's worth $0.99 from my iPhone or whatever....