Ladies and gentlemen. The high definition format war is all, but over. Warner Bros. goes Blu-ray exclusive. WB representives say money hats were not given for the “sudden” move, but only the naive could completely believe that.
I am very pleased with this move. I guess we know why WB needed the 2 hour timeslot for their press conference at CES 08 now; lots of Q&A time.
Update: HD-DVD Forum just cancelled their CES 08 press conference. I’m shocked. Why no damage control?
I recall a time when the Consumer Electronics Show was more of a tradeshow about gadgets, huge LCDs, computer technology and other new technologies, such as this high definition wireless solution. I started following the show thanks to all the new computer oriented products companies would announce and display; it was a nice preview of the year to come computer technology wise.
Since the inceptions of the high def war and the next-gen console war, CES’ entertainment section slowly became the highlight of the show for me.
With CES 2008 is just a few days away (starts January 7th), I found it hard to miss all the buzz surrounding it. Here’s a rundown of some of the noteworthy:
Ever since DLNA support was added to the PLAYSTATION 3 in firmware 1.80, I have been streaming all sorts of media to my living room and HDTV in a configuration similar to this:
Early on, I transcoded my Top Gear and American Dad episodes from my PC via TVersity since a majority of my content was encoded in DivX/XviD format (incompatible with the PS3 at the time). While the solution worked, it had some inconvenient setbacks: