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Posted by Derek Janssen on 03/09/07 03:43
Aaron J. Bossig wrote:
>>
>>Although, now that Blu-Meanie probably isn't reading his own thread
>>anymore, would it be safe to confess...
>>
>><locks door>
>><pulls windowshades>
>><looks around furtively>
>><checks lamps and phones for bugs>
>>
>>...I've been thinking of getting that big HD TV/player upgrade next
>>January, and have been entertaining evil Blu-Ray fantasies, as soon as
>>the new player drops its price? 0_0
>
> Oh, I wholeheartedly agree. I was originally going to be format-
> neutral, buying into both while I waited to see which format won out...
For me, the studio-war was only over Warner releasing "Robin Hood",
"Excalibur" and "Forbidden Planet" in HD--But now that those're going
dual-format with the rest of Warner, I can let Disney/Pixar movies sway
my judgment also...
And Universal's Microsoft-tied HD support seems to be isolating itself
in the industry, so Apple will probably stand their ground with "their"
BR codec. And anything Apple does is Always Right. :)
> it doesn't
> make financial sense for me to buy both players or LG's combo at this
> point in time.
I'm going on the assumption that LG's Big Mistake scared most other
companies out of trying to make licensed dual-players, as if such a
thing could be negotiated with two jealous factions--
Besides, just about every major company is committed to one side of the
battle or the other, and without LG there's almost nobody left who
*could* try to go double-agent, unless HP makes a stab at it.
> I'm doing the same thing-- investing in BluRay simply because it's
> providing a better overall package. In a year, I'll revisit that
> decision and see if there's a compelling reason to buy a second player
> for a second HD format.
If I make my second format-war mistake in my life (I'd won a Sega
machine in college), and HD pulls ahead, it should be at least a year
before we see it pull far enough ahead to affect sales--
That's more than enough time to save up to correct mistakes.
> Just because I'm buying into BRD doesn't make our resident BluRayPimp
> correct. His logic is terrible and he's been wrong about almost every
> "fact" he's presented to promote BRD. He isn't the first troll in a.v.d
> to do his own argument more harm than good.
I was hoping to get some specific theater-tech arguments about HDI being
so much more manageable for disk content, etc., but that does emphasize
one of the points:
HD has the support of the theater-techies who watch the movies on
respectable home-theater equipment in their living rooms...But apart
from studio support, the most "advantage" that Blu has going for it
right now is Rabid Fanboy Loyalty by PS3 gamers, who want to
"woof!woof!woof!" that "they're winning" because they didn't have to buy
the add-on and can watch it for free. And who, well, end up sounding
like Blu-Boy.
Which IS doing more public harm to their arguments than good, and, as
the videogame groups complained, reducing the format war to yet another
Gamerz Shoutdown. Joy.
(And if Digital Bits--once the voice of reason, but now turned rabid
blu-boy--pushes those danged "scale" charts in our faces one more
time...) >_<
> BTW- if you're looking to get into BRD, the Samsung BDP-1200 looks
> pretty slick.
I'm leaning toward Samsung for the screen, so I'd trust them over Sony,
any day--
But, it'll probably end up being whichever player was going down to $599
by fall...Did I mention, I bought my first DVD player when I thought I
could get a reconditioned-DiVX on the cheap?
Derek Janssen (and no, Rabid Fanboy Who Is About to Respond, I am NOT
"buying a PS3 for less")
ejanss@comcast.net
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