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Archive for January, 2008

Will the AppleTV help change video?

Today, Apple did a sidestep around the HD DVD and Blu-ray debate with the update to their AppleTV.
Think about the most popular way most of us watch movies. We rent them. Either at the local movie store or via mail at Netflix or Blockbuster.
What Apple has done is said, “Why wait for a [...]

More on Blu-ray Winning the Format War

It appears that the second shoe may have dropped in the Blu-ray and HD-DVD format war. It was reported yesterday in the Financial Times (article) that Paramount could be dropping their support for HD-DVD and siding with the Blu-ray camp. Paramount says they plan to continue with HD-DVD, but their wording has become [...]

Has Blu-Ray Won the HD "War"?

The battle has been raging for much longer than many had anticipated. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are the competing formats for the new High Definition format to replace the aging standard definition DVD.
Neither format is compatible with the other, even though they use the same three codecs (including the H.264 codec from Apple) for showing [...]

New Reels in Motion Blog

Since you’re here, you already know about the update. I’m posting here just to document the move from Blogger to my own domain. Also this page is a landing page for the 301 redirect from the Blogger site to this site.
http://blog.reelsinmotion.com
Enjoy!