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Posted by Doug Jacobs on 07/05/06 20:15
In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 Roy L. Fuchs <roylfuchs@urfargingicehole.org> wrote:
> >So, why no Blu-Ray instead of HD-DVD?
> Have you even been reading this group, you total retard?
> Did you star in the film "Total Retard"?
> I just said a day or so ago that I would buy a BluTurd player
> *after* THEY release their El Cheapo CRAP models. If it is so great,
> even THAT model should beat out my HD DVD player.
And you still haven't answered my question, despite scattering your
response to me over 3 different posts. Why do you do that?
Anyways. You admit that both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD both provide a vastly
superior picture than what DVD can do today. Given that, why did you
choose HD-DVD *FIRST*? Furthermore, what's with your obsession about
calling Blu-Ray "BluTurd"? Were you beaten as a child by some guy named
Ray who loved wearing blue suits? It's immature and certainly gives the
impression that you consider HD-DVD superior in some way to Blu-Ray - but
you haven't said why.
Both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD can be used to store high quality audio and HD
video. The only difference is that one medium has slightly more storage
space than the other. But in terms of A/V, that's mostly moot. So long
as both can contain an entire movie, a dozen extra gigabytes here or there
isn't going to make a difference.
But it obviously makes a difference to you, yet you don't - won't -
explain why.
As for your comment that the market can support both formats, I have to
again disagree. Yes, the market does support both DVD-R and DVD+R - but
why? They both do the exact same thing, and have virtually the same
amount of storage. Yet because the industry couldn't agree on one
standard, adoption of this technology was slowed quite a bit. Even now
it's rather confusing. Some players handle +R better than -R, for
instance - and for no good reason. There's no advantage to +R over -R or
vice-versa so you'd think they'd be interchangable...but they aren't! And
the same thing could happen to Blu-Ray/HD-DVD.
The same goes for blu-ray vs. hd-dvd. Yes, you *could* make a player
capable of handling both formats - but then I still have to ask: why two
formats? They support the same content, it's just written differentally.
No one - not you, not the technology journalists, not even the companies
themselves - has been able to explain why one format is better than the
other for the purpose of HD video storage. And in the meantime, the
adoption of either new format is going to be slow because no wise
consumer is going to want to find out he's just spent hudreds or thousands
of dollars on hardware and a media format that's going to be declared
"dead" with in a few years.
As for your pathetic comparison of Blu-Ray/HD-DVD to religion, please.
These are totally separate issues. First off, most people only choose
one religion, so it's OK that there are many, even though many are
contradictory/conflicting with one another. With Blu-Ray/HD-DVD, if you
choose only one format, you'll lose out on the titles released by the
studios that don't support that format. This means you'll either have to
buy 2 separate devices - that do essentially the same thing. Or you could
buy a multi-format player - which will cost more than a single format
player simply due to the added complexities of having 2 or more laser
assemblies inside. Yes, I suppose the studios could just start producing
2 separate versions of all their titles - one for Blu-Ray, and one for
HD-DVD. But again, I have to ask...WHY TWO FORMATS? In this case, this
will make it much more difficult and expensive to manufacture. Not only
doesn't this benefit the consumer, it doesn't benefit the studios!
It seems the industry expects the consumers to make the choice between
Blu-Ray and HD-DVD when they haven't considered the third option -
consumers ignore both formats and simply leapfrog to the
next-next-generation which I guarantee will debut only after it's
format-wars have finished.
But you're certainly free to jump in now. I don't think it was a wise
choice, and I've explained why. If this somehow bruised your overly
sensitive ego, I apologize but I stand by my statements.
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