Posted by ChairmanOfTheBored on 09/23/07 19:06

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:09:32 -0400, "Danny Biggerstaff"
<coasterdan@aol.com> wrote:

>I think the PS3 simply coming with a BR player is what is winning the war
>right now. Most people that have either or BR or HD DVD (I have both...)
>have it because it came with the PS3. So they buy BR movies to use on it.
>It was a great marketing ploy...


Not at all. The PS3 is a dog with Linux on it, especially for reading
standard CDs and DVDs.

It is a nice box, but without Sony releasing the info required to allow
3D video drivers to be released, it is stuck in frame buffer mode, which
is quite sad.

Besides, simply being included in a game console is NOT going to garner
enough points to win over an industry.

With A/V aficionados, quality will be, and is always the test.

Right now, both seem to be pretty damned good, and I foresee that both
will survive pretty damned long.

I find it quite amusing that the Cell BE CPU in the PS3 is a joint IBM,
SONY, TOSHIBA venture, so I see this whole thing as being Sony's greed as
it was they who ventured astray when all this HD stuff was being designed
at the start. It was initially a Toshiba design, and Sony "differed" on
some points so went their own way.

They went to the Bill Gates' School of Suck-Mo-Cash, and that is fully
what they intend to do.

They don't deserve it, but both will be around for a while, and Sony
will wrest even more control over the movie industry as a result. Keep an
eye out for them buying up even more studios, and other "properties" in
the realm of film art. Sad, that. Monopolies always means that we lose.

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