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Posted by Mattinglyfan on 07/01/07 03:15
"Mutley" <mutley90210REMOVE@hotmail.REMOVEcom> wrote in message
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> 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..
Believe me, once one format wins, hackers will make sure that is no longer a
concern.
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