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  • Keith Benedict
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The guts of Apple branded computers are nearly identical to the guts of Psystar branded computers. There's nothing magical or technically superior about Apple branded computers.

The only thing this shows is just how over-priced Apple branded computers are and how anti-competitive Apple is for not wanting to face any competition.

Their EULA is a joke. Imagine if the DVD's you bought from Sony had an EULA that said you could only play their DVD's on a Sony DVD player. I don't see this as being any different.
There's a problem with that 10%. That 10% is only for the top 20 money making titles for the week. Is that top 20 the top selling Blu-ray discs or top selling DVD's?

If you take the total sales of each, you come up with 7.7% ($10.05M / $129.37M * 100). Go back to last week sales and do the same calculation ($12.38M / $148.88M * 100) and you'll see that last week Blu-ray's total sales were actually a higher percentage than this week at 8.3%!!!

Now, take this even further and consider the fact that Blu-ray discs cost more than standard DVD's and the numbers are probably even worse. If you want to get a really good gauge on what in-roads Blu-ray is making, compare the total number of units sold for each format.
Umm...did you guys NOT notice that sales were down nearly 19% over last week? How is this impressive? How is this good news? Just because Blu-ray increased its still meager market share, I fail to see how this is good news in light of the 19% drop in overall sales.
This won't go anywhere fast. It's in Dish's best interest to go a slow as possible in the hopes that Voom will go belly up before they have a chance to pursue their claims in court.
I have an HD-A30 and I absolutely HATE this feature. When I press menu I want to go to a menu and I want the movie to pause.
I don't really give a crap about 2.0 Profile. I don't need/want Ethernet access for my DVD player. In fact, I rarely--if ever--watch the extras included on discs. I care about watching movies and have little time to watch anything else.

I think the average consumer probably feels the same way and has no clue about the various Blu-ray profiles currently or soon-to-be available.

Consumers want a Blu-ray player that is affordable (read,
I'd like to see Re-volt for the N64 added.
This is anything but shocking. As I've been saying all along, until/unless prices of the players come down to earth so that the average Joe can afford them, Blu-ray will flounder. If the the manufacturers wait too long to drop prices, Blu-ray will remain a niche product. If studios don't release more software for the players, that would be another strike against them.

If all parties involved are not careful, this could wind up being just like the high definition CD format that Sony tried to launch.
Finally something to get excited about!!! I have no interest in playing rehashed Mario/Wario/Luigi/etc games. I want new. I had a feeling the hardware wasn't being fully exploited. Hopefully this will raise the bar for other developers.
We've had ours since October, 2007. We rarely play it. We bought it because we thought there would be a lot of games that the entire family could play together. However, there are few games that the 3 of us can play at the same time that are worth playing.

We played Wii Sports for the first few weeks after we bought it, but that got old really fast. We've tried the various party games, but those games are very repetitive and arbitrary. We played Guitar Hero and had a lot of fun with that, but only one person could play at a time since you couldn't buy just the guitar.

I'm hoping Wii Ski and Mario Kart will finally be games that all three of us can play at the same time and actually enjoy playing.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm in the market for a new phone and money isn't a limitation. I'm also not partial to any particular US carrier, but here are some of the features I'd like to have: WiFi, GPS, good coverage in lots of places, push Gmail (a must!), physical keyboard (a must!), a touchscreen, decent battery life and a relatively slim body. And please, nothing that has a fruit logo on it. No offense to the fruit fans, though. Thanks!"

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