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Posted by Mutley on 07/01/07 01:18
Derek Janssen <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:
>Spurious Response wrote:
>>>
>>>>Sounds like they know WE know we're sitting on our hands waiting for the
>>>>Standards requirement,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
For you guys in the US it doesn't matter who wins but those of us out
side the US it does. HD DVD is free region by design, Bluray is
not so if BD wins I suspect that the MPAA jack boots will come on and
regional coding will be the norm on BD disks, so those of us outside
region A are at the mercy of local price gouging suppliers like we
were when DVD first came out before they were made region free.
Unfortunately I suspect that Sony will make sure that BD will never be
region free..
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