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Blue Skies for Blu-ray

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Yesterday it was the announcement that in response to consumer demand, Warner Bros. Entertainment will release its high-definition DVD titles exclusively in the Blu-ray disc format beginning later this year.

Today at the upcoming CES show a planned HD DVD press conference was canceled as the consortium behind the format is discussing the potential impact of this announcement and evaluating next steps.

Toshiba, masters of the HD DVD format, also issued a press release expressing their “particular disappointment” with Warner, also implying that the move to go Blu-ray exclusively is a breach of contract.

All of this continues to reinforce my belief that Blu-ray will emerge the victorious format in the end.

Tags: Blu-ray, CES, HDDVD, high-definition DVD, Toshiba, Warner

Follow me … Follow you

Am I following you or are you following me? I was wondering this question the other day, and I really wanted to find out the answer. Scrolling through the Twitter pages of my friends/followers was a little time consuming and the twitter server gods kept crashing the pages on me. So I gave up trying to figure out who I was following who followed me and getting caught up with people following me who I wasn’t following (are you following this line?).

Today one of my new followers - Guy Kawasaki - someone who I’ve been following for a while now posted a link to a great new application called Twitter Karma.

Twitter Karma is a Flash application that grabss your friends and followers from Twitter when you click the “Whack!” button, then displays them for you, letting you quickly sort through them. The default sort is a list containing all your friends and followers and is sorted by last update, showing those who most recently updated first. You can sort the list alphabetically either ascending or descending by Twitter ID. You can filter the list in several ways: only friends or only followers, all friends or all followers, and mutual friends.

Now with just a couple of quick clicks I can see whos is following me that I’m not following and those who I follow that aren’t following me.
To follow me on Twitter click here or on the picture of our retired racing greyhound G-Race.