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Posted by Allan on 10/04/68 11:35
On 24 Dec 2005 20:07:04 -0800, "Goro" <evilninjax@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> "Not bad for a dead medium."
>>
>> I suspect it was sarcasm from "Justin" because of my comments in the
>> past on "HD DVD" in the past. But, I never said "Not bad for a dead
>> medium."
>
>I thot so, too, but clearly in this thread, on this subject, you never
>condemnd DVD to be dead.
There were 1.2 Billion DVD's sold last year.. I'd love a part of that
"Dead" medium
"you never condemnd DVD to be dead."
NunYa Bidness is new to the usenet... or should I say the other name
he just started using "Roy L. Fuch" is new.
>IMO, DVDs likely not going to be dead for quite a while. It's not even
>really clear yet if HD-DVD/BR will or will not be DOA or perhaps merely
>a niche product.
It's hasn't been a great start... but I suspect come January we should
see a number of interesting announcements from CES.
Folks that claim DVD is here forever ignore Hollywoods fear of piracy,
and the ease that we can copy DVD's.
The push for HD will come from the Studios.
>What's that old line, "No one ever went broke underestimating the
>public" or soemthign like that. I think by now, it's pretty clear taht
>DVD satisfies the quality concerns of the median movie viewer.
True.... but the viewer is not the key. It's the content supplier.
They are very concerned about the easy of piracy.
I look forward to the quality improvement, and given the chance to buy
either one... I will spend my dollars on the higher quality product.
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_
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