Posted by Joe Moore on 01/15/32 11:44

manitou910@rogers.com wrote:

>I agree that both sides will lose the current battle. While the market
>realities have few parallels to the old VHS/Betamax wars, enough people
>remember this that many will resist taking the leap, aside from a few
>technophile early adopters.
>
>Blu-ray's higher storage capability is a non-issue for home theatre
>people (the primary market), since both formats have enough room for
>high-quality hi-def movies. Home theatre and the PC market are two
>totally different ones.
>
>BTW, bonus features likely will not be hi-def for either format.
>
>The down-rezing, for copyright reasons, will be the kiss of death for
>both. As others noted, this means most HDTV displays acquired more
>than two years ago will not display full resolution from either HD-DVD
>or Blu-ray.

But, Sony (Motto:"Our customers are too stupid to care about rootkits
so why shouldn't we use them?") has promised not to set the
screw-the-customer-out-of-the-high-def-experience-he-bought-our-hardware-
and-content-for bit on Sony Blue-ray content. At least not initially.

Don't you trust them?



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