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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BBC’s Secret “TV Detector” Vans Not So Secret… Sorta

Did you know you have to pay a licensing fee when you buy a TV in the UK and that money is used to subsidize the cost of running the BBC? Yea… I didn’t either. Well your gut reaction might be “who cares, how can they possibly police that?” As fate would have it, Chris Hunkele [...]

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