Posted by Derek Janssen on 01/12/07 22:16

TheLetterK wrote:

> Rexunrex@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> 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.

>> 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 single most expensive part is the drive. I've got a box that will
> handle it, whenever I can put a blu-ray or hd-dvd drive in.
>
>> 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.

Microsoft announced at CES that they plan to expand their drive into a
standalone HD player, for all those grownups who can afford to buy one
for their living room but don't play Splinter Cell on X-Box.

Although ATM, it's not player availability or cheapness that seems to be
the problem for HD...On the contrary, it's way too easier to buy a
player as compared to Blu, we're just not all sure yet whether we WANT to.

>> 3. The Bluray-HDDVD war has only just begun. Expect 2 to 5 years for it
>> to be resolved.
>
> With Sony's decision to keep porn off Blu-ray, the war is over. You'd
> have thought they would have learned the *first* time they did that.

....Wow, how did *that* become part of the Urban Legend in only 24 hours?
0_o??

Read the real article again (and at least twenty-four more fanboys will
be happy to link it, also convinced "the war is over"):
Two studios unanimously said they chose not to use Blu because they
COULDN'T FREAKIN' AFFORD IT!!!!!

(And besides, we've already beaten the "VHS was a *lonnnnggg* time ago
before the Internet, Grandpa!" argument into the ground already, several
threads back. Learn to Google.)

Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net

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