Archive for November 6th, 2008
Netflix Discontinues Used DVD Sales
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Netflix is planning to halt selling DVDs that were formerly rented by its subscribers. This is an additional step taken toward the expansion of its subscription focus from DVDs rented and delivered by mail to movies that are streamed via the Internet.
The service is set to end on November 30th, as described by the Nefflix:
As you know, our core business is delivering great movie rentals to you on DVD by mail and instantly to the computer and TV, so we’ve decided it makes sense for us to focus exclusively on that. This means we will stop selling previously viewed DVDs through the Web site. We’re sorry for any inconvenience for those of you who regularly purchase DVDs at Netflix, but we’re excited about being able to spend the extra time focusing on continually improving our core rental business for you.
The inventory of rented DVDs is likely to be sold to a third-party DVD dealer.
Notably, subscribers who were able to offer feedback on the company’s blog were overwhelming against the move.
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No Bias, No Bull, No Hologram
For TV News shows, the presidential election isn’t a mere opportunity to report about the politics of the day. With the many millions of people who watch, it’s also an opportunity to show off some new technological toys. On election night CNN unveiled the new semi-holographic imaging technique similar to what is seen in the “star Wars” movies. The news show had “beamed” the 3-D image of 1 correspondent and the singer Will.i.am from Chicago to the television studio in New York.
Technically, this isn’t considered a true holographic image, since the image didn’t really materialize in the studio, although to TV viewers it appeared as if did.
The technology involved a green-walled room with 44 motion capture cameras arranged in a 360-degree circle and 20 computers. The computers processed the data utilizing a graphics software similar to the one used by Hollywood special effects artists.
The 2 images contained a blue aura around them, which was added for show, not as a necessity of the technology.
For the technology to work it required tracking the cameras motion in the CNN studio and coordinate them to the cameras in Chicago, to receive a unified real-time image.
Currently, there is technology being developed where true holographs would be visible. The technology would use a spinning display surface that projects images at 5000 frames per second.