Big bets for 2008

Both points of view have merits. For movies tho, the format with the biggest backing of the studios should come out trumps in the end. There can be only 1 winner, like the VHS - Beta war in the 80's.

VOD and IP TV thows another twist in the race. I reckon by end of 2008 most movies will be watched via download and streaming, which may nullify the format war a bit. But then again the purists among you may beg to differ.

Some of the big studios are signing up with joost.com. That's the way forward
 
I enjoyed the article. its a good laugh. But a the end of the day its all just specualtion. I enjoyed this part the most -> Sentech:
But it will squander this money by yet again failing to make a meaningful impact on the market. It will return to government, a year or two later, cap in hand, begging its political masters for more.
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Pah, who cares about the HD/Blue ray war? Just buy a player that supports both. Trust me, this is gonna be like DVD+R and DVD-R.
 
WOW! now we get 2GB's instead of 1GB!! Thats a HUUUUUUUUUUUGE saving :rolleyes:
 
* Telkom will sell its stake in Vodacom to Vodafone
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Vodafone, not wanting to really deal with SA politics only wants 51% ownership so it can make the decisions. Telkom and Vodafone fight over "all or nothing" for over 8 months. Mean time, vodacom rolls out broadband that is half the price of telkom

* MTN will buy Telkom’s fixed-line assets, but only after intense discussions about the extent of government’s involvement in the merged business and the impact the deal will have on consumers. Government will retain a large stake, both directly and through the Public Investment Corp, but it will not enjoy the board-level control it had over Telkom.
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I see this happening, but prices remain the same.

* After years of waiting, Sentech will finally get the funding it .. begging its political masters for more.
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I give it 3 months...

* Bandwidth caps will be doubled
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Broadband prices are slashed in half, DSL "line renta"l fees double.

* New entrants in pay-TV will trigger a content war with incumbent MultiChoice, operator of DStv....
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Competition launches, no-one notices.

...Ubuntu, the Linux distribution spearheaded by Mark Shuttleworth, which will cement its place as the most popular Linux desktop.
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Mark Shuttleworth is distracted by SA infraCo. Ubuntu 8.04 is shipped with many bugs, most stay with 7.10 as 8.04 is deemed the worst yet. 8.10 fixes these issues (not much changes...)

Sony’s Blu-ray will consign HD-DVD to the trash heap by triumphing in the battle of the next-generation high-definition disc formats.
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Anyone here actually seen a blu-ray/hd-dvd movie yet? I'm for Blu-ray BUT, I predict - HD-DVD writers drop in price, making HD-DVDs the writing media of choice, HD-DVD popularity increases.

* Apple will introduce a new version of the iPhone...
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And again makes little to no impact to the SA market.

more predictions:

Eskom will lose yet another power plant, power shedding all year round - Christmas is ruined. Crime rate increases.

More strikes for anything involved with 2010, government coughs up. I suspect the Gautrain builders are next to strike.

Due to money lost from loss of revenue from power outages, eskom increase prices again. Most people buy a generator and ends up being cheaper.

iBurst found guilty of fraud.

Neotel boast about being cheaper and better than telkom, but still dont offer any prices to the public
 
Obviously this chap downloads all his porn.

The porno industry has gone the way of HD-DVD and not BLU-RAY. Exactly the same thing that caused the demise of betamax will kill BLU-RAY... PORN !!
 
:eek: hahahahahahaha, best laugh all day, thanks.
 
OMG !!!!!! Bandwith will double???????

So we had 3GB soft capped to 6GB, now hard capped to 3GB go back to 6???

ZOMG!!!!!!
 
The guy who wrote the article did no reading up on HD-DVD or bluray.

Here's hoping Disney goes multi-format.

Disney Jumping Blu-Ray ship?

That article may not really mean much of anything but it definitely shows that Disney is at least slightly interested in HD-DVD.
 
o telkom go F*** yourself lower the prices do u really think we gonna stay with u when a new company arrives? all the years of suffering and u expect anyone to stay with you when a new comany arrives? you killed yourself :P
 
Regarding the Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD... Have any of you walked into a shop and actually seen a HD-DVD format disk? Most stores like Musica, Phase 2 etc only stock Blu-Ray. I have yet to see a HD-DVD movie in this country. So based on that, I think Blu-Ray are already ahead of the race.
 
I agree with most of what is said apart from the HD-DVD prediction and the iPhone prediction.

iPhone will hit our market next year. Be it via the operators or not, but it will be widely available next year.

HD-DVD and Blu-Ray is not a clear cut win-lose scenario yet. I suspect HD-DVD might still come out tops.
 
Alchemist said:
Regarding the Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD... Have any of you walked into a shop and actually seen a HD-DVD format disk? Most stores like Musica, Phase 2 etc only stock Blu-Ray. I have yet to see a HD-DVD movie in this country. So based on that, I think Blu-Ray are already ahead of the race.
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Don't be fooled. Our market is not decisive at all. We are a dumping ground for goods that don't sell elsewhere. Remember LaserDisc?

I think we were the country they came to to sell the last little bit of foresaken stock. ;)
 
I'd like to know WTF the Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD part came from? Who comes up with this nonsense?
 
Sony’s Blu-ray will consign HD-DVD to the trash heap by triumphing in the battle of the next-generation high-definition disc formats. Expect a Blu-ray player for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 in time for Christmas 2008.
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:D :D :D :D :D
 
Great article, 2008 more so than previous years really seems to be something to get excited about. Hell, I'm looking forward to the new year, which is more than what i could have said for 2007 and those years preceding it.

But let's see, this is South Africa after all, and we've all been sold high prospects for great things and walked away with little more than a unfulfilled promises.
 
Alchemist said:
Regarding the Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD... Have any of you walked into a shop and actually seen a HD-DVD format disk? Most stores like Musica, Phase 2 etc only stock Blu-Ray. I have yet to see a HD-DVD movie in this country. So based on that, I think Blu-Ray are already ahead of the race.
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Um, maybe because the most popular blu ray capable device in the country is the PS3?

Like seriously...

Sigh.

As someone before me already said. On the world map of technology we almost nothing.

Another reason blu ray is most probably selling here is because companies like to take advantage of the uneducated public.

They probably know blu ray is gonna lose so they are selling br so you can come back next year and by that title again in HD-DVD.
 
Is this a joke ? 3 - 6Gb ONLY at the end of next year ? 6GB ? WOW now I finally can have 2 days of internet instead of 1 in a month....

TELKOM was expensive for the last couple of years, but since bandwith allmost doubles for other countries worldwide each year it is starting to look more like a rippoff than anything else. Why are they saving so much unused bandwith on SAT-3 for anyway ?

Just sickens me that poeple can surf and downloads @ 2mb/s uncapped in London for 10 Pounds a month (R140 all included).

Why is it that we South Africans must pay 2x - 3x more for our goods / service's than anyware else. Not to mention the basic South African salaries is 2x - 3x less than anyware else. Not even mentioning the interest rate :sick:

They should install as std in all clock radios from now on: "South Africa wake up call": How to screw your fellow South African today.
 
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