Posted by JEDIDIAH on 08/10/06 19:27

On 2006-07-31, Phat Bytestard <phatbytestard@getinmahharddrive.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:12:27 -0400, Derek Janssen
><ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> Gave us:
>
>>Maybe HD's are a little "neater" than DVD's, but they ain't the quantum
>>leap to make us turn against DVD's like a pack of jackals--
>>Remember CD's and vinyl, or word processors and typewriters: To become
>>a "replacement" technology, the new gizmo has to make you *LOATHE AND
>>DESPISE* the old technology...
>
> Total crap.
>
> 6 times the resolution IS a quantum leap. You (obviously) and other
> folks just have not realized that fact yet.

The $1000 question is whether or not you are willing to spend
$1000 to experience that difference? That's not even getting into the
issues of whether or not everything that needs to go into that
superior experience (including perhaps some more rather expensive
new hardware) have all put themselves into alignment.

I can get TWO regular progressive scan DVD players for just
the cost of a CABLE to connect an expensive HD dvd player to an
expensive HD TV that can fully exploit each other.

--

Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire,
is genuinely new: culture, like science and |||
technology grows by accretion, each new creator / | \
building on the works of those that came before.

Judge Alex Kozinski
US Court of Appeals
9th Circuit

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