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Posted by Geena Phillips on 01/19/07 07:02
Kimba W. Lion wrote:
> asjbiotek@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Yeah, buy your HD-DVD and play none of the big studio movies on it ;-)
>
> Have a look at:
> http://stereophile.com/interviews/107daw/
> There's some pretty good reasons to consider Blu-Ray a must to avoid.
>
> And you didn't address my point about durability. Remember, Blu-Ray discs
> were initially designed to be housed in a caddy. They dumped the caddy idea
> for marketing reasons (probably too reminiscent of CED), but the data pits
> are still REAL close to the surface of the disc, which means it won't take
> much to disrupt the optical properties of the disc and make it unreadable.
>
> So, enjoy your ridiculously expensive equipment while you can and let me
> know in 6 months how your discs are doing, playability-wise.
Not to discount the points in the article, but as long as Stereophile is
run by a credulous fool like John Atkinson, it will remain on my
do-not-read list.
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