The “Break it Down” Blog

Blu-ray is DOA: High Costs, Expensive Players and HD DLC

ZDNet’s Robin Harris takes a look at why Blu-ray is dead-on-arrival. Robin’s analysis, while starting with an inflammatory title, makes a lot of sense. Robing starts off by citing the first few key elements that killed the format: 2-year battle with HD-DVD took the steam out of HD Disks in general, making consumers a bit hesitant about [...]

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True Cost of 3G iPhone: $6.66/mo More

Gizmodo put up a 3G iPhone True Cost comparison that I found interesting, especially given the shenanigans surrounding the 3G iPhone upcoming release (pertaining to AT&T’s lockdown). It looks like when you consider the SMS fee and 3G fee, the new 3G iPhone will cost you a total of $160 more dollars in a 2 year [...]

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SMS Data Costs $732.95 per MB

We covered the “True Cost of SMS” a while ago, but data is surfacing again at the absolutely ridiculous rates that SMS demand. Latest estimations put the “true” cost of SMS messages to be roughly 4x that of the most pessimistic rates estimated to be the cost of transmitting data to/from the Hubble Space telescope. When [...]

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