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Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 11/08/07 23:47
In article <PzNYi.5493$bm.2124@trndny08>,
Derek Janssen <ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:
> Lloyd Parsons wrote:
>
> >>>
> >>>>http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/format-war-gets-more-warlike/
> >>
> >>>What a wonderful forum it was years ago.
> >>
> >>Over on the Blu-ray.com forums (like we're neutral either), AVS Forums
> >>had become a symbolic punchline/buzzword for the schoolyard tactics and
> >>general hinder-talking that was being demonstrated by the more rabid
> >>HDDVD supporters as public support dwindled--
> >>
> >>Microsoft's own consumer media head Amir Majidimehr was a protected
> >>"celebrity" on the HD forum and had been narcissistically self-promoting
> >>King Bully on the playground--and with some of the most howling PR
> >>propaganda/misinformation this side of Ken Graffeo--before he also had
> >>to make an unscheduled exit from the Forums.
> >>The kids on the BR forums would say "Did you see what they said this
> >>week?--Let's go over there and get 'em!", and the regulars would calm
> >>them down with "Why bother, they'll just make more..."
> >
> > in the meantime, the bluray forums were dropping anyone that said a
> > disparaging word about anything bluray...
>
> (In fact, "being banned from AVS", just because Amir said yo-mamma,
> started to become something of a badge of honor, on BR.com--
> At least for those who still bothered about AVS, and didn't just shake
> their heads sadly.)
>
I've said plenty of good and bad things about HDDVD and BluRay, kind of
an equal opportunity bitcher, if you will... And I've never been banned
anywhere.
Those that get banned at AVS almost always are because they have
attacked other posters and not the posts.
> > AVS forums is more balanced that any of the fanboi sites/forums. For
> > every rabid HDDVD freak, there are that many rabid Bluray freaks, both
> > spouting misinformation at every increasing rates.
>
> Yeah, Blu fans would go around spouting things like "Transformers HD
> *still* couldn't get #1 sales vs. Blu-ray in its opening week", and "2/3
> of first-time Joe-Sixpack customers who bought $99 Toshiba A2 players at
> Wal-Mart last week LITERALLY weren't even aware of what they were buying
> in response to the hype, and thought they were buying a 'magic DVD
> player' that would turn everything HD--While the other third of longtime
> disk fans confessed that they were intentionally just buying a cheap
> upscaler, period"....
>
> While the HD Forums were still giving their readers scare stories from
> 2006 about PS3's unable to upscale DVD's, and cheering their supporters
> to the "news" that Warner had decided to release all their Harry Potter
> movies as HD-only.
>
> Derek Janssen (well, *they* believed it...)
> ejanss1@verizon.net
The blu fans certainly don't have a problem with the 'less is more'
mentality that Sony and the other BD CEMs are passing around.
You know, less audio capability for more money, like the S300. Or hell,
practically none of the current or announced BD players will do online
interactive that Disney is spouting off about for BD. Or maybe only one
Profile 1.1 player will actually ship this year, and dates of bd movie
releases are being slid 'cause only the PS3 plays them???
And the FUD that the PS3 will be upgraded to Profile 1.1 when Sony
hasn't said that at all.
The words that come to mind most often in the BD posings is 'deception
and disarray'.
As to the HDA2, it was a hell of a bargain. If you didn't buy one you
really care more about one format than you do about movies in Hidef.
$99 for a HDDVD player that also upscales SD better than most upscalers?
Heck of a deal. BD has no answer for that as they are in the "let's rip
the early adopters off some more" mode.
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