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Posted by JoeBloe on 10/25/06 03:25
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:42:17 -0700, "Quanta" <none@none.NET> Gave us:
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>"Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> wrote in message
>news:slrnejibhj.tfb.hellsop@abyss.ninehells.com...
>> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:20:02 -0400, Derek Janssen wrote:
>>> Justin wrote:
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>>>>>>>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.
>>>>>>
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>>>>>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
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>>>> 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.
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>> ATRAC. And its derivatives.
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>>> 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.)
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>> 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.
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>Actually, the porn industry was very very slow to move to DVD.
>
Due to the fact that their huge equipment investment was in film
based gear. The cost of those TV grade cameras, or even the newer HD
stuff is huge and they squander their money... so there was a lag.
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