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this-is-it300 A few musical picks, like Michael Jackson’s This Is It and Soul Power, highlight this week’s releases on Blu-ray.

Usually we focus on the movie releases in our weekly Blu-ray spotlights. However, this week there are a few engaging musical items that are sure to make your home theater system sing.

This Is It is a must for Michael Jackson fans. He was supposed to perform an astounding 50-show run in London, and before passing away last year a good amount of his rehearsal footage was captured on film, with this documentary being the result. All of that musical goodness through Blu-ray can be heard in uncompressed DTS-HD Master Audio, so you can soak in one last glimpse of the king of pop.

Another performance that you may not have known about is also on showcase this week as it arrives on Blu-ray. The disc is called Soul Power, and it is a concert film and more, documenting performances that coincided with the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle that pitted Muhammad Ali and George Foreman (go rent When We Were Kings for much more). James Brown kicks things off … ‘nuff said.

For another bit of musical attitude, check out the original version of Fame (1980) that’s out this week. You may know many of the songs even if you’ve never seen the film, but here’s all the singing and dancing in full Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround sound to light up your home theater.

Here’s the complete list of releases for this week, courtesy of Blu-ray.com:

Adam: Giselle
Atonement
Fame
Fuel
Give ‘Em Hell Malone
Gluck: Orphee & Eurydice
Kong: Return to the Jungle
Michael Jackson’s This Is It
Paris, Texas
Price & Prejudice
Rebellion
Saw VI
Schumann: Genoveva
Soul Power
Surrogates
The Toolbox Murders
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Wagner: Die Walkure
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Whip It
Wild Ocean
WWII in HD

by Arlen Schweiger

http://www.electronichouse.com/article/top_10_blu-ray_releases_for_january_26/

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Failure in the mobile realm, and the lack of integrated user interfaces for applications and services, will help Microsoft lose its grip on consumers in 2010.

Microsoft will suffer in the consumer space, according to Mark Anderson, author of the Strategic News Service newsletter, and an influential technology watcher.

In his annual Top 10 list of technology predictions, Anderson proclaims 2010 the year that Microsoft “loses” in the consumer space:
Microsoft loses in its Consumer play: except for gaming, it is Game Over for MS in Consumer. This will make Consumer the place to be, where the most robust and exciting change artists will work.

Anderson believes that Microsoft’s vision of integrating front-end platforms with a strong back-end platform “isn’t resonating,” reports ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, who attended Anderson’s Top 10 affair:
Instead, customers are more interested in the fully-integrated user interfaces (with apps, marketplaces and the like) with an OK, but not great, back-end integration story. Apple, Android and others are better positioned here and going to win, Anderson told dinner participants ….

We wondered earlier why Microsoft has not created something as fundamental as a marketplace for apps and services, especially for Media Center – a job now being undertaken by a couple of fans in their free time.

Anderson believes that Microsoft’s failure in the mobile category will further alienate consumers from the software company’s ecosystem.

He says Windows 7, “ironically, by failure of imagination and by its PC-centric platform, actively clears space for others to take over the OS via mobile platforms.”

By Julie Jacobson

http://www.cepro.com/article/analyst_game_over_for_microsoft_in_consumer_space/

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