{"id":552,"date":"2008-04-15T16:26:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T00:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/portable-movie-super-player\/"},"modified":"2008-07-12T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T18:22:18","slug":"portable-movie-super-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/portable-movie-super-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Portable Movie Super Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still read the IMDb Studio Briefing everyday, though it gets a little discouraging. I sometimes wonder if there will ever be anymore interesting multimedia tech news. I should have more faith: <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/news\/sb\/2008-04-14\/#film4\">New Movie Media Devices Predicted<\/a>. Really, the story here is that IBM has developed a new, giant capacity yet very small storage method. This is one of those curious situations where they don&#8217;t mention how large capacities can possibly reach but instead express the capability in terms of how much media the thing might theoretically hold. It&#8217;s left as an exercise to the reader to decide what the average size of a &#8216;song&#8217; or &#8216;movie&#8217; might be and compute from there.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the days when CD-ROM storage capacities were expressed in terms of how many printed documents it could hold? Later, the benchmark was number of pictures, then songs. Now it&#8217;s movies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newelectronics.co.uk\/article\/13711\/Off-to-the-races.aspx\">This article<\/a> cites that a device built around the memory could hold the 3500 movies or 1\/2 million songs. Thus, the average movie is ~140 times larger than the average song.<\/p>\n<p>The weirdest aspect of the articles floating around is that the hypothetical device would come with 3500 movies prepackaged and the consumer would purchase codes to activate individual movies.<\/p>\n<p>Given recent media consumption trends, there&#8217;s little reason to doubt this strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still read the IMDb Studio Briefing everyday, though it gets a little discouraging. I sometimes wonder if there will ever be anymore interesting multimedia tech news. I should have more faith: New Movie Media Devices Predicted. Really, the story here is that IBM has developed a new, giant capacity yet very small storage method. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multimedia-presswatch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}