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Posted by doc on 01/26/06 17:45
if Sony has anything to do with it, the answer is YES they will somehow
manage to make it a proprietary format/issue so that only Sony will benefit,
much like the Apple products and other Sony (only) products - - and of
course leads to a company's decline, when pro's and consumers move away from
"ME ONLY" to freebie (like Linux) stuff where there are NO limitations, only
the imagination limit of one's own mind.
IBM was smart, when the "compatibles" came in, IBM thought it out and
decided NOT to sue, but opted to work on components to sell to the
compatibles through their purchase of loads of mini developers (now IBM
companies) and support the public domain, and thus, continued to grow in
what would otherwise have been a declining market for them. the result,
they not only survived, but are still the biggie in the market.
proprietary means just what is says, the only one in the market and thus a
limitation.
apple lost here too, they focused on proprietaryism (new word) and soon
found that only elementary schools would keep their puters with the high
schools focusing on PC's because that's what big business used (IBM's and
IBM's compatible issue) and soon they began to loose that market too
(elementary schools). but, when Bill Gates offered to do the "BALE OUT"
presentation of Apple's sad state of proprietary finances, he made the
presentation on an IBM Thinkpad using M$ PowerPoint and Apple almost
listened.
drd
"Mark Burns" <marcus520520@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the update Smarty.
>
> I am happy to know that ULEAD will be supporting the HD format.
>
> I still am unclear myself on what that it shall mean over the next
> three-five years for me personally. Will I shoot and edit in HD, than
> down convert to DVD? (I think probably)
>
> Or will I shoot and edit in HD, and then save in an mpeg-4 format on a
> much cheaper DVD-9? Will next gen DVD set top players support a HD
> DivX? (This I hope for even more)
>
> Either way, I am not sure of Blu-ray or HD-DVD in the near future,
> unless it were attached to a game of some sort I suppose. But I hate
> computer games so that is not a personal issue.
>
> (As a side note, one can get a 1980's Atari 2600 flashback with 20
> games built in for $30. I do kinda like that one! Nostalga with a
> requirement for immagination.
>
> http://www.atari.com/us/games/atari_flashback/7800
> )
>
> What will be the durability of these new disks? Many of us have been
> disappointed with DVDs compared to CDs. Time will tell I suppose. We
> will know more in five years.
>
> I do wonder if in five years that both Blu-ray and HD-DVD will be niche
> products ala the laser disks of the 80's and 90's. Will the public
> perceive the HD formats as being superior enough to DVD to warrant
> investing in it? Will hybrid players help the new markets? (probably
> not with dueling formats I surmise)
>
> Don't mind me, I am still befuddled over all of this.
>
> Cheers...
>
> Mark
>
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