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Posted by Telstar on 10/28/07 22:28
"ChairmanOfTheBored" <RUBored@crackasmile.org> wrote in message
news:3gv7i35o7tj47qdvf0snrp35bu0b874r1l@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:35:33 GMT, Derek Janssen
> <ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>Not meaning to rattle sabers, just thought it was funny--
>>
>>One poster on one of the hi-def boards (with a little bit of a pro-Blu
>>slant) was pointing out how the "feisty" pro-HD-DVD camp seems to be
>>going through the Five Stages of Grief in their relationship with
>>Blu-Ray's market lead:
>
> Speaking of feisty, you should check out Ubuntu's forums on the issue.
> The PS3 Ubuntu distro will read and allow viewing of HD DVDs, and it runs
> on a PS3.
>
> There is a patch for the Linux kernel for the UDF file system. The
> Cell CPU is already in the Linux tree now, and the UDF file system soon
> will be.
>>
>>1) Denial - "Just keep holding out, the market is still showing a 50-50
>>split; with Paramount, the war could be going on for another three years
>>before the public decides!"
>>
>>2) Bargaining - "There's enough room for two formats in the industry; if
>> more people start buying dual players, maybe more studios can go
>> neutral!"
>>
>>3) Anger - "Hah, those Blu-ray gamer-d00ds and their
>>Playstations...Nyah, you can't even do PiP yet!"
>>
>>4) Despair - "It's pretty clear that the format war is already driving
>>viewers away from hard disk, we just have to start gearing the industry
>>to on-demand downloads..."
>>
>>5) Acceptance - (well, we're still working on that one)
>
> Whatever.
>
>>Derek Janssen (facing a new a.v.dvd world without Blu-Boy)
>>ejanss1@verizon.net
>
> Whatever. Both will survive. Y'all need to get that through yer thick
> skulls.
No we don't. You are simply wrong...both will NOT survive. It is very much
more likely that neither will.
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