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Xperinet’s MIRV server interface can be loaded with Blu-ray for you
Haven’t built up that Blu-ray collection yet? Xperinet wants to give you a boost.
The company is pre-loading Blu-ray packages onto its MIRV (Multiple Independent Replay Video) servers, so not only don’t you have to worry about the longish time it takes to load a high-def flick (relative to loading standard DVDs), but you can access them quickly and easily.
Packages include movies organized by genre, like action, comedy, drama, family and more, the company says. Each package has 25 movies, mainly of new releases but some classics also mixed in, and Xperinet plans on updating packages.
Also, in case people are worried about getting the same film twice if they order more than one package, that won’t happen because titles are not repeated between packages, as much as we understand that Pirates of the Caribbean, for example, could be included in both the action and family packages.
The pre-loaded libraries also contain all of the metadata and cover art for scrolling convenience. Xperinet servers range from 1.2 to 4.5 terabytes, so there’s plenty of room to boost your Blu-ray library and bask in the high-def movie goodness.
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What Blu-Ray needs is more rental availability, plain and simple.
People look at the few dozen titles at Blockbuster, and figure that spending $400 is not worth it jus to watch such few movies. On top of that, at least here in Canada, Blockbuster charges extra for Blu-ray.
If I were Sony, I would work very hard to get more Blu-Ray vaiety on Blockbuster shelves.
Blu-Ray also needs better PR. The statement that “DVD upconverted look just as good” is ludicrous. People only say that becuase they have never seen a Blu-Ray playing via proper cabling on a reasonable HDTV. The press is also rife with idotic articles about Blu-ray 2.0 and so on. Blu-ray 2.0 means littel or nothing. How many consumers really care about donwloadeable extra fetaures? Many consumers get confused and think that they “need” 2.0 for some meaningful reason.
If people knew that ANY Blu-Ray player can play ANY Blu-Ray movie perfectly, in 1080p, the drive to move technology forward would be well ahead.
I also think that the PS3 should include a booklet that tells people about its ability to play Blu-Rays, and the benefits, as should the side of the PS3 box.. Many PS# owners just don’t know, so they don’t pester Blockbuster clerks about where the Blu-Rays are, and the cycle compounds itself.
PS3s, after all, ARE Blu-ray players, and excellent ones at that. People in the know, with no interest in games, buy PS3s for that specific reason. There is no compelling advantage to a stand-alone player, so measuring sales of these is more a take on how many gullible consumers there are out there, not how much “non gamer” interest there is in the technology.