Posted by Bob Bohling on 08/09/06 02:18

All magazines and most reviews are supported by advertisers. Sony and
Samsung are
two of their advertisers as well. I also am not expressing a personal
experience opinion.
I will wait, to see the next generation and not get sucked in. I have done
that in the past.
I bought Beta (a better format), which died. I bought RCA's video disk (a
decent format,
which died), I bought LaserDisc (a great format), which died, SACD, which is
also mostly dead,
along with DVD-Audio, though I liked them both. DVD is great and showed
how the companies can work together and it worked. If I want to go with
past experience,
Sony usually loses when they do their own thing...Beta, MiniDisk, and
whatever. I just want
a good/not dead in the water format and it is way too soon to say one is the
better of the two.
I will even jump in, if I can get a dual player, which is the smartest
choice.
"Geena Phillips" <gbeenie@comcast.netrosexual> wrote in message
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> Bob Bohling wrote:
>> B.S. - Toshiba is not dying. The reviews for Toshiba so far have been
>> great for the picture quality.
>> Blue Ray is having problems though. Sony admitted a chip fault, but
>> Samsung was trying to keep
>> from admitting it. Sound and Vision magazine says Toshiba is the "Best
>> HD Picture They've Seen".
>
> I'm not expressing an opinion about EITHER format, but there is a math
> equation that must be considered:
>
> Sound & Vision = published by Hachette Filipacchi
> Hachette Filipacchi = OWNED BY ADVERTISERS
>
> --
> Well, whaddaya know? War WAS the answer, after all. Go figure.
>
> A lone Micronaut lost in a world of Star Wars action figures,
> (The Excessively Parenthetical) Geena-- Worrier Princess
>
> "Reciprocity... is the key to every relationship."
> --LAPD Capt. Dudley Smith (James Cromwell), in L.A. Confidential
>
> "Andy Warhol once said that everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes.
> The unfortunate corollary is that everyone will also appear in a Freddie
> Prinze, Jr. movie for fifteen minutes."
> --me
>
> "This is like driving a Rolls Royce, naked, in mink underpants."
> --Tony Bourdain
>
> "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it
> helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons,
> but at the very least you need a beer."
> -- Frank Zappa
>
> "I'm not sayin' it's the best thing in the world FOR ya; I'm just sayin'
> it's the best thing in the world."
> -- Alton Brown
>
> "The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that
> the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the
> saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and
> becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd
> fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses
> of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."
> -- Robert Heinlein

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