Posted by GMAN on 10/12/05 02:31

In article <daKdna-sz4w6ZdbeRVn-vw@golden.net>, trashtrash@christian-horizons.org wrote:
>A Chinese or Indian company comes out with a new format and it is
>adopted by Bollywood and the emerging Chinese film industry, who have
>every reason to undercut Hollywood and Japan. It can read and write
>somewhere around 30 GIG to a DVD form factor and the players are
>compatible with existing DVD disks.
>

If that Chinese disk cant do HDTV, its game over before it even started for
that.


>Actually, now that you mention it... you never know. Why did the VCR
>utterly crush the Video Disk Player? Because it could record. I don't
>know how that element factors into the introduction of new media, but I
>know that those big greedy corporations are sensitive to the way
>consumers attitudes sometimes coalesce around a particular issue. DRM
>may prove to be an utter bust. If some Asian company offers some other
>kind of technology and for some reason doesn't feel oblidged to cowtow
>to the DRM cartel....
>
>And in my view, this is a cartel.
>
>The truth is, Free Enterprise and competition are for schmucks. The
>real world is collaboration between Microsoft, Sony, Warner Brothers,
>etc. "Competition? We don't need no stinking competition..."
>
>Tarkus wrote:
>
>>
>> Exactly how would you expect a third format to succeed without the
>> blessing of those content corporations in Hollywood? Are they going to
>> shoot their own films?

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