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Posted by Allan on 01/14/06 12:51
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:43:21 -0800, "Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote:
>>>><EFG> LOL I told everyone that this would be the result!
>>>
>>> No... actually you said:
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>>> "Please shut up....you know nothing about it at all. From a
>>> scientific standpoint it is very difficult. Non trivial. Expensive."
>>>
>>> Which is complete Bull.
>>
>> Which is still precisely correct. From a technical standpoint, building an
>> HD-DVD/Blu-Ray player would be no problem at all. All of the issues
>> preventing one from happening are purely legal in nature.
>>
>
>Wrong. It is hardly 'no problem at all.' Have any of you studied physics?
Just by saying it is difficult... does not make it so.
Please point us in the direction to any where on the internet (other
than you) saying: "From a scientific standpoint it is very difficult.
Non trivial. Expensive."
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7205.cfm
"Japanese executives in general are very political, so this was very
surprising," Kovsky said. "Technically, it is possible...but at this
point, it doesn't look like it will happen, which is a shame, because
it will hinder adoption." Of course the rules that govern all of these
companies just makes the battle more bitter for consumers. "The
conundrum is that you've got two different camps. You've got licensing
issues, you've got trademarks, you've got copyrights," Weedfald said.
"You can't just be on the Blu-ray side and say, 'We will put HD DVD in
there,' and the reverse is true."
It will be a while before we see one on the market, but it is far from
Impossible.
"Politics is far more complicated than physics." Albert Einstein.
"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_
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