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Posted by Quanta on 10/20/06 20:42
"Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:20:02 -0400, Derek Janssen wrote:
>> Justin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Has there been a lead yet on who is winniing this war?
>>>>>
>>>>>I read stories both ways. Personally it looks like Blu Ray is in the
>>>>>lead, but Microsoft will try to fix that.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Thank you all I have a chance for a free hd dvd player but wanted to
>>>>know
>>>>if it was worth it. not much software out there
>>>
>>> How would it NOT be worth it?
>>
>> And not to start the tastes-great-less-fillings again, but let's be
>> honest, here:
>> Blu-Ray is SONY. The Betamax Sony. The Minidisk Sony. The DVD+R Sony.
>> The "Whatever the heck that MP3-player format was that was going to
>> crush iPod" Sony.
>
> ATRAC. And its derivatives.
>
>> If it's a format war, it's ALWAYS Sony's fault. Which means there's
>> going to be something wrong with it.
>>
>> (Me, I'm holding out for HD, as soon as Warner gets a few more of their
>> recycled Ultra-Resolution classics out there...
>> Betting pool open on whether we see the HD WOz by year's end.)
>
> The ultimate winner will be whichever format the porn industry adopts.
> No matter what the medium is, or what its technological strengths are,
> if you can get a lot of porn on it, it'll take off.
Actually, the porn industry was very very slow to move to DVD.
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