Posted by Derek Janssen on 09/19/07 18:11

Lloyd Parsons wrote:
> In article <1190218997.540482.300690@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>,
> ninphan <sjburke73@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>So you seriously think Blu-ray purchasers are going to think THEY have
>>made a bad decision? Not likely.
>
> All this is very nice. Now let's talk about the price you'll see in the
> store for the 2 HD format players:

Sure--Because, as we've seen on other boards, that's ALL HD fans do:
"People want cheap players".
Good, think I'll buy me one of them Chinese players at Wal-mart, along
with a Vanilla Coke and a bag of Cheetos...Okay, just kidding.

Unfortunately, the topic of storage capacity, audio codecs, 1080i vs p,
HDMI 1.3 rarely gets brought up, and when it does, we get thrown some
scare-story fact from 2006 that has since been firmwared out of existence.
But, hey, how about them cheap players?

(And yes, I know: Alt.games and a.v.dvd are "pro-HD" because we had the
Gibbering Idiot plugging Blu--
But it's a new world now....Flying cars, 'n everything:
Yes, the Idiot still Gibbers--although we haven't heard the peep of a
gibber in months--but HD dropped the ball, acted like morons, resorted
to criminal activity to keep Microsoft's hope of HDM code monopoly
alive, even Disney and Dreamworks are now pointing "bribe" fingers when
the press can't, and HD now can't keep up a reasonably updated technical
argument in favor of their own product going to save their lives.

Being a Blu proponent now no longer means being a "Whoa, d00d!" PS3
gamer-boi, it means now trying to see an integrated end to the format
war, and how to engineer future consumer-friendliness into one format to
levee-dam that '09 floodwave of newbies that's about to hit.
Sorry, guys, you had your chance, but like David Mamet says, Things Change.)

Derek Janssen (who gets out a little, once in a while)
ejanss@comcast.net

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