Blu-ray Has Arrived
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
If you blinked, you may have missed it, but the first Blu-ray movies were released last week, with the first Blu-ray player released a few days later. Initial impressions of the Samsung player were underwhelming, as was the review of one of the few available movies. Expect players to get better and cheaper, and ditto with the movies. We’re in the midst of a format war between Toshiba’s HD-DVD and Sony’s Blu-ray, but as far as I can tell, the general level of apathy over this subject is pretty high.
This technology has the potential to radically change how we produce meat, but only if they manage to bring down the price. And it currently only works for ground meat. (I suppose they could make “steaks,” but they would be quite different from the steaks to which we’re accustomed.) While I’m not a hard-core animal rights activist, one neat side-effect of this process becoming ubiquitous would be the reduction in cruelty to animals.
