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Posted by Mutley on 07/02/07 06:42
ninphan <sjburke73@hotmail.com> wrote:
>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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>> - Show quoted text -
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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.
But you can bet they will once HD DVD is dead and new titles start to
come out..
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