The inevitable death of the CD will be one step closer and 300 residents of Pitman, New Jersey out of a job come March 31st. It is on that day that a Sony spokesperson confirmed with CNET that Sony will close 1 of 2 remaining CD manufacturing plants. The reason for the closing is a given — digital media is far superior in every way, and as such, has caused more people to turn away from physical media. Of course, Sony also adds in a sagging economy and piracy (in...
There’s no denying the iPhone 4 is an extremely popular and successful device. The biggest reason being the touchscreen that literally revolutionized the smartphone world back in 2007. But as great as the touchscreen is, some people still prefer good ‘ol physical buttons. Apple won’t be adding in physical keys and keyboards anytime soon. So that leaves 3rd parties to fill in the gap. So far, we’ve only seen a few bluetooth iPhone keyboards. They...
For the longest time, I had some weird fetish/affinity for physical keyboards. I swore off any device that was touchscreen only. And then I got the iPhone 3G back in 2008. It was a lovely time. A time in which I realized a lot of things, namely, that I didn’t need a physical keyboard to be happy. Moving past that to a Moto Droid once again brought up those physical feelings from inside, due more-so to the fact that the stock Android keyboard sucked. Replacement...
Digital distribution may be the way of the future, but that won’t stop disc creating companies such as Storex Technologies from touting their Hyper CD technology. Hyper CD’s claim to fame is the lofty 1 petabyte (1,000,000 GB) storage capacity. Indeed, 1 PB is a ton of data and could prove rather useful in certain situations. But then you have the whole issue of it being another proprietary physical format. So is Hyper CD worth holding our breath for? The way...
It never ceases to amaze me how uterly retarded, stupid, and incompetent the movie studios and “the old Hollywood” in general really are. Todays fluster cluck of DRM spotlight features Avatar and the unplayable disc. I’m seeing reports all over the web (Consumerist in particular) of new Avatar customers unwrapping their new gift only to find it unplayable in their Blu-ray players. Effective DRM, huh? From what I’ve gathered both in articles and...
