Posted by Bobbie on 01/01/07 08:41

While taking a break from performing an interpretive dance of 'Flight of
the Bumble Bee', Neck & Red wrote:

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> <Rexunrex@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1167619148.476168.320960@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
>>I predict that HDDVD/Bluray will suffer in a prolonged coma, probably
>> for the next 5 years. It may never wake up at all and may even prove to
>> have been stillborn all along.
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>> There are 7 excellent reasons:
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>> 1. DVD is, exactly like VHS, "good enough", cheap, and ubiquitous. Even
>> playing on my computer, the video and audio are crisp.
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>> 2. The HDDVD & Bluray hardware including monitor, video card, and drive
>> are hyperexpensive and beyond the means of most people. The minority of
>> newly-rich people and obsessive gamers cannot support this technology.
>> The only hope for HDDVD was the Microsoft $200 USB drive, but without a
>> good ripper program to let the consumer avoid buying a new monitor &
>> video card, even that is useless.
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> Why would the consumer want to buy a new tiny monitor and video card when
> he's got a 50" or bigger HDTV in his living room?

Uuuum, because if they bought that HDTV with HDMI input prior to February
of 2006 they'd be SOL so far as connecting a HDCP compliant device to that
old and now antiquated HDMI television. I'd mush rather leave the unusable
antique hanging in the living room and just buy a decent 16:9 monitor for
the computer. It'd be much cheaper.

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>> 4. Actual movie theaters are far better pictures than HDDVD or Bluray.
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> Take the family to see 4 movies and I could have bought the HD-DVD drive for
> my Xbox along with a few movies and had enough left over for popcorn.
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> Oh, and HD-DVD blows away the picture quality of a movie theater.

Conventional 35mm or 70mm film, yes. especially if it's been through the
projector a couple of hundred times.
IMAX, nope. Not even close.
Digital Projection? Not even close.
Plus I doubt that you have over 2000 watts of Dolby Digital wailing away
in your living room.

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