May 2012 Fails
Apple iPhone Charger "a technologically advanced flyback switching power supply that goes beyond the typical charger"
I’ve always been curious about this. Seemed impossibly small. I’m impressed
And who’ve thought Roy Halliday would’ve blown a six run lead in the bottom of the fifth?
Six hits, six run and a grand slam.
Apple is not afraid to cannibalize it’s own existing product revenue.
iPhone eats into the iPod
iPad eats into the MacBook Air, which eats into the MacBook Pro
What will they cannibalize next?
After using the new iPad for 30+ minutes, then picking up my iPhone, the display seems tiny.
48.5 minutes and $500
Allow me to translate the simple process:
The process to convert previously-purchased DVD/Blu-ray movies to digital copies is quick and simple:
- Bring your movie collections from the participating studio partners – Paramount, Sony, Fox, Universal and Warner Bros. – to your local Walmart Photo Center.
- Gather your collection of DVDs (I have a relatively small collection, ~100)
- Identify whether or not they are from a participating studio partner.
- Who the funk knows this? I gotta read each DVD box and figure the funk out whether or not it qualifies? Forget that hippie. I’m bringing all of them.
- Transport the collection to your local Walmart.
- Of course I’ll use my Walmart plastic bags I’ve collected over the years.
- Cart in my collection to the photo center
- I have two kids. This isn’t going down on a weekday, and this is exactly how I want to spend my Saturday afternoon.
- Walmart associate will help you create a free VUDU account.
- What the crap, another account? I already have an Amazon Prime, Hulu, Netfix, HBO Go and iTunes account. Now another one? Jesus. Wait, Walmart owns VUDU? Okay, this makes me feel better about the process.
- Tell the associate how you’d like your movies converted:
- Convert a standard DVD or Blu-ray movie for $2; or,
- Upgrade a standard DVD to an HD digital copy for $5.
- Wait, so I can rent a month old DVD release from Redbox for $1, but I have to pay $2 to to convert my own movie to digital? 100 DVD to HD is going to run me $500. WHAT? Seriously? Of course dropping $500 of disposable income is right in line with the Walmart customer value network. Hmm gas for my car, or convert my DVDs to HD digital…?
- Walmart will authorize the digital copies and place them in your VUDU account. No upload is necessary, and you get to keep your physical discs.
- Okay, so how long is this process going to take? I’m not going to have to stand in line while some other jackass qualifies his 100 DVDs am I? I bet this guy didn’t take the effort to determine whether my collection is from a ‘participating studio partner’. Neither did I. Let’s say it’s 10 seconds a movie. Holy crap, I gotta stand here for over 16 minutes while I wait for this?
- Log onto VUDU.com from more than 300 Internet-connected devices to view movies any time, any place.
- Does that work with my Apple TV? Seriously.
Allow me to recap.
Collect ~10 min
Drive ~15 min
Carry ~2 min
Account ~3 min
Process ~16.5 min
Pay ~2 min & $500
Best case time = 48.5 minutes and $500
Yes please, more of this. No way. I’d just assume sit in bed with my laptop at 9:00 PM on a Tuesday night and queue up my torrents. I’ll never watch those DVDs again anyway.
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