Posted by ChairmanOfTheBored on 08/21/07 01:15

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:10:09 -0700, "Telstar" <none@none.net> wrote:

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>"Telstar" <none@none.net> wrote in message
>news:faddiq$2h8$1@zinnia.noc.ucla.edu...
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>> "Derek Janssen" <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:BP6dnYTvIseipFfbnZ2dnUVZ_o3inZ2d@comcast.com...
>>> Telstar wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>All it would take to kill off HD-DVD is for Disney to release their
>>>>>>back catalog of Classic Animated movies and that would be all she wrote
>>>>>>for HD-DVD.
>>>>>
>>>>>Done, and...essentially done, in spirit:
>>>>>http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=407
>>>>>
>>>>>(They had to rush "Sleeping Beauty" ahead of the IMAX reissues, partly
>>>>>for the Platinum cycle, and partly because of all those darn ads...)
>>>>
>>>> These arguements are way, way too simplistic. What child cares about
>>>> Disney animations release in high def?
>>>
>>> The child with the parent who wants to buy them?
>>>
>>> Derek Janssen (and if you're the offspring of a home-theater nut, you
>>> have no CONCEPT of how much you luck out)
>>> ejanss@comcast.net
>>
>> This idea will not keep any HD format alive...you must realize that or you
>> are brain dead.
>>
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>I fear very few understand that very, very many movies are being converted
>to low res. silicon-based media players by various means. Portablility and
>cost greatly exceeds general consumer interest in quality.
>
Only for total retards.

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