Posted by TheLetterK on 01/15/07 01:41

Derek Janssen wrote:
> 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.)

You *really* need to lighten up. Wow, talk about missing a joke.

>
> Derek Janssen
> ejanss@comcast.net

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