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Re: HD DVD Price Drops while Blu-ray Screws Early Adopters

Emma — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:45:04 -0000

Someone who bought the Blu-ray was really unhappy with their purchase:

This product is disappointing from Sony. It is a very low end product; the load times for movies are 2-4 minutes.
Options for screen control are limited. Even though I have a wide screen T.V. (50 inch plasma), it does not fill the screen with the picture. You get the picture with a couple of inches of blank spae below and above the picture.
I have worked with tech support and all options and no resolution to the problem.

BluRay should be great, this is just another piece of junk.

More reactions from buyers here:
http://www.buzzillions.com/prd-676175-sony-blu-...

Re: The New Format Wars: Forget About HD DVD & Blu-ray

Emma — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:52:55 -0000

The Blu-Ray has been getting both positive and negative reviews, people who have purchased say that while the quality of picture is great and is easy to set up and use, the cons are that it's slow to power up and there's no memory. Here are reviews left by people who are verified to have purchased it:

http://www.buzzillions.com/prd-260217-sony-blu-...

One guy said "Great design gives it a sleek look. When turning it on, it takes longer than a minute for the tray to open up. I have heard this before so it may be common for these types of DVDs. With the HDMI connection, the picture is very sharp! I definitely noticed a difference in DVDs to HD Blue Rays.
Disadvantage on all HDMI connection is that you don't get closed captions signal through it. If the DVD doesn't have subtitles, then you need to use a different connection and the quality reduces, big time.
The manual section on hook-up is confusing a little on the variety of choices. HDMI is too simple and yet the manual shows to many wires with options that won't make sense to some users. You need to figure out the settings if you want PCM audio, mix-down, etc. You need to know which quality is better.
First couple of days on using it, it locked up once watching a movie. I had to unplugged it from the back to restart it. It could be a dirty DVD but it hasn't happened again.
My biggest peeve is when you turn off the DVD and want to continue watching where you left off next time, you at the beginning of the DVD again.
Not so sure about improvement on audio quality because I can't imagine audio sounding better than regular DVDs."

Re: Netflix Chooses Blu-ray, Big Blow to Any Chance of an HD DVD Comeback

Emma — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:07:21 -0000

I wouldn't jump the bandwagon too soon -- consumer reviews from people who purchased the sony blu-ray: http://www.buzzillions.com/dz_260217_sony_blu_r...

Re: Lessons Learned from 60 Minutes’ Interview with Zuckerberg: Brandee Barker is a Genius and Zuck Wears Nice Moccasins

Emma — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:20:26 -0000

I think he should have been asked if he sees the future of Facebook as the standard platform for the web as Windows is for the PC.

and um...
Kara Swisher should DEFINITELY have been left out of that interview. What the hell was she doing there anyway? She's a total moron.

Re: 2008/02/06/flock-myspace-platform-support/

Emma — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:11:35 -0000

Why would you use a heavy browser like Flock that takes forever to load and has a ton of built-in features that you might not even want, when you can use a customizable browser like Firefox..thats a hundred times quicker to load?

Re: 2008/08/27/startup-hacks-know-when-to-walk-away/

Emma — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:23:05 -0000

this is one of the worst articles i have ever read in my life.

Re: PR-less launch kicks off a stack overflow of praise

Emma — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:36:44 -0000

Totally agree with the first comment by Jeremy Toeman. And as a popular blogger or journalist, expect to get bombarded by pitches.

Re: PR-less launch kicks off a stack overflow of praise

Emma — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:39:12 -0000

Why do you rant so much on your blog these days anyway.

Re: Where Google and Facebook are fighting the next monetization battle

Emma — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:44:04 -0000

Recommending products, brands, services, etc. are things we talk about in everyday conversation. when we find a product or brand we love, we shout it to our friends, write on their walls, send them messages and emails, and so on. There just hasn't been a structured way though, to see what your friends are buying and recommending. It'll be really useful when we'll be able to see what our friends are buying and recommending, without having to directly ask them every time.

Re: Facebook's 60 Minutes of Fame?

Emma — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:00:09 -0000

you make women in technology look like fools.

Re: Facebook's 60 Minutes of Fame?

Emma — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:44:20 -0000

Hey Kara, you sounded dumb with your unwitty comments in the Gates/Jobs interview, and you sounded even dumber in your brief presence in the 60 minutes interview.

Instead of trying to win fame by being a Zuckerberg rival with no credible or interesting analysis, write about something you actually know about.