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Posted by Bratboy on 04/11/06 12:54
"Rich Clark" <rdclark2@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Allan wrote:
>> http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-ed-hddvd10apr10,1,7088547.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true
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>> "IF THEY WANT A GLIMPSE OF THEIR own future, Hollywood executives
>> should take a peek at the latest year-end report from the Recording
>> Industry Assn. of America. It's not a pretty picture. There, amid the
>> statistics about declining CD sales and booming music downloads, are
>> the grim numbers for the higher-fidelity formats once billed as the
>> music industry's Next Big Thing. Their sluggish performance suggests
>> what could happen to the two competing high-definition video formats
>> that Hollywood will soon try to sell, HD-DVD and Blu-ray."
>
> The key word there is "competing." It's hard to say what would have
> happened if the entire music industry had gotten behind SACD and pushed
> real hard.
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> When the industry itself can't pick one format and market it by clearly
> outlining its benefits, consumers can't be expected to do better.
> VHS/Beta is not a useful precedent, because the whole technology was
> new to consumers - there was no earlier home video recording tech to be
> replaced. Today, with people already satisfied with CDs, MP3s, DVDs,
> and cable/satellite, a format war is the best way I can think of to
> stall adoption of any of it.
>
> RichC
>
Im not gonna worry bout jumping to HD DVD yet myself. Someone in another
thread made a big deal out of "you could even make out the sweat gland on
sonso's face in HD". While I like detail comments like that don't impress
me. SD(prefeerably Animorphic) looks fantastic on my WS HDTV so at least
untill everything shakes out I'm just gonna avoid HD DVD for a while. Maybe
by next xmas the studio's will have pulled their collective heads out of
their behinds and settle on one format etc.
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