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Tilted Cat Head
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not that wired has been dead on with it's lists, it usualy is close to the mark.
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The Top 10 Heartbreaking Gadgets of 2007
By Charlie Sorrell and David Becker
12.21.07 | 12:00 AM
3. HD DVD
In the format war that consumers have wisely tried to ignore, HD DVD got one thing right: the name. Familiar and easy to spell, it sounds like a simple upgrade for something we already own. Blu-ray, on the other hand, is pretty much better in every other way. It has a larger capacity and a better range of movies, and it's slowly edging out HD DVD in the sales charts. Add to that the PlayStation3, which includes a Blu-ray drive, and things start to look bleak for HD DVD. The upside? It's all a moot point anyway. The real future of entertainment lies not in any form of physical media, but in high-speed downloads and dizzyingly fast data transfers.
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DRM is a different problem, and can be a hinderence. But really how much has it "hindered" itunes store? over 1B downloads isn't something small to sneeze at.
The technology limitations you mention, were mentioned before for the past decade, "We'll never get past this limit...", "Moore's law is coming to an end..." all have been touted before and then someone comes up with something fascinating and able to bridge those issues.
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