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Posted by ninphan on 07/01/07 15:42
On Jun 30, 9:18 pm, Mutley <mutley90210REM...@hotmail.REMOVEcom>
wrote:
> Derek Janssen <eja...@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
> >eja...@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
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So far very little discs are region encoded. None of Warner's,
Paramount's are; Sony's catalogue titles aren't and neither is Casino
Royale, Disney's POTC aren't.
It's the studios choice, not the formats.
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