Posted by Derek Janssen on 09/19/07 19:32

Lloyd Parsons wrote:
>
> If being the best technology was what sold, the PS3 would be flying off
> the shelves, and Sony would be making buckets of money off it. Yet that
> isn't the case at all. The sales are sluggish and that is with Sony
> practically giving them away, losing bunches of bucks with each and
> every sale.
>
> Heck, they can't even get someone to write a game for it that makes
> gamers go 'wow!'

And ironically, some polls show 2/3 of gamerz weren't even aware it WAS
a Blu player.
(Well, we know one who did, but let's forget about him for the moment.)

> BTW, if BD were to have the new profile in place and all the movies took
> advantage of it, they would still be behind HDDVD. No internet
> connection required for BD's next profile,

(Nope, just Ethernet, sorry.)

> and Warner likes it and uses it with some of their releases with more planned.

Well, that was pretty much over the fact that they'd invested so much
R&D cash into the "TotalHD" disks that were supposed to bring peace out
of the war--
And which are now being quietly backshelved and retired by the company
without undue embarrassment.

Recent rumor has it that Toshiba was in fact more interested in bribing
Warner out of neutrality (so they could leverage Paramount/Dream with
"Uh, yeahh, we're in talks with Warner at the moment..."), but,
um...think we can guess whether there's any love there. -_-

> When 300 released on both, the BD camp made a big deal out of the sales
> ratio. But that was when the HDDVD version was a combo disk at a higher
> price.

And before Universal and Warner retired their combo disks, and
re-released all previously DVD-combo movies on solo-HD disks.
Well, there's our first official casualty of the War--Better get up that
new tomb at Arlington. :)

> Of course, pathetic is just the perfect description of the total hi def
> dvd market at the moment anyway.

....Don't own a screen, huh? ^_^

(It's said that techies With the new toys should never ask the techies
Without for sympathy, as it's a lost cause, but...trust us on this one.
Old-school DVD fans know the first taste of addictive Mainstream Video
Crack when they see one, and they know a future Outbreak before it hits--
And if we're talking "Gullible customers who don't know better", let's
talk about mainstream middle-class Circuit City customers browbeaten
into thinking they have to by a widescreen HDTV before February '09 just
to watch TV.) >:)

Derek Janssen (oh yeah, we're about to see "Nobody owns those big
screens anyway" retired REAL quick)
ejanss@comcast.net

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