Posted by GMAN on 06/11/06 06:16

In article <_POdnUbGY75hbBfZnZ2dnUVZ_s6dnZ2d@comcast.com>, "Joshua Zyber" <jzyber@mindNOSPAMspring.IHATESPAM.com> wrote:
>"GMAN" <Not@home.now> wrote in message
>news:e6dnt9$28b$1@news.xmission.com...
>>>When your movie freezes it's NOT a minor inconvenience....
>>>
>> Just like what Microsoft did with the XBOX360. They could have waited
>> and put a
>> HD-DVD drive (I myself am in the blu ray camp) internal, and they
>> could have
>> also made sure there was more backwards compatibility out of the box.
>>
>> Rush the OS or drive etc to market, grab a small market share at the
>> hands of
>> unknowing alpha testers, and fix as you go for the next few years
>> never truely
>> fixing the OS or device till the next wizbang OS or device is released
>> and then
>> drop support for them. Typical Microft bullshit. Looks like they got
>> the VC-1
>> encoding/decoding mucked up.
>
>I know it's easy (and awfully lazy) to blame everything on Microsoft.
>They're a big corporation, so they must be evil, right? Not like that
>consumer-driven mom&pop shop Sony. Well, the problems that A MINORITY
>own owners were having with their HD-DVD playback had nothing to do with
>VC-1. It was a Toshiba bug, which Toshiba has now fixed. Hear that, they
>fixed it. The problem is fixed. Harping on it just makes you sound like
>you have an axe to grind. Meanwhile, the people who actually own the
>players are happy with them.
>
>
No, I have no serious personal axe to grind with Microsoft. I like Windows XP.

I just hate the way "ANY" company rushes product to market just to beat the
others by a few months knowing full well their product is not finished or a
cludge. The Toshiba player should have been from the very beginning a regular
consumer electronics based product and not some HTPC type case and PC drive with
linux OS driving the thing. Who is toshiba trying to be like? a $30 cheapo asian
manufacturer like APEX or Daewoo ?

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