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Posted by Derek Janssen on 06/30/07 07:09
Spurious Response wrote:
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>>>Sounds like they know WE know we're sitting on our hands waiting for the
>>>Standards requirement,
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>> Life would have been so much simpler if EVERYONE had just boycotted the
>>Sony money sucking behemoth, and went with the better HD DVD standard.
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>> No hand sitting required then.
>
> Seriously... think about it, folks. Why are humans so stupid?
>
> WHY does there have to be a winner and a loser with everything?
> Why can not both of these fine formats carry on as usual, and neither
> shoot the other down?
BECAUSE...Instead of Microsoft and Toshiba wasting time, money and
technical stagnation on a rapidly isolated system they think they can
sell on "corporate evangelism", why not have *two* different
companies--and, for that matter, everybody else--constantly improving
ONE product, with no messy distractions?
(In fact, that was exactly what was supposed to happen near the end of
2006, and corporate egos blew the format peace talks to smithereens.)
That's what happened to DVD once we settled on a disk-structure patent
and got that pesky varmint DiVX out of the way, and we're all the better
off for it--
By 2007 Buying Season, we could have had a uni-format BluHD player that
cost $250 and have 1000 movies available, but Sony wanted to be stubborn
and Microsoft still had power fantasies.
.....And neither of those is the customer's fault.
Don't think we're not seriously looking to knock some heads together,
roll up our sleeves, and make up for some danged lost time.
Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net
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