Posted by Alpha on 10/22/07 02:54

PS

Don't look around too hard. The June announced (with huge fanfare) Toshiba
HD DVD writable/rewritable has not appeared...it dropped off the map.

"Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote in message
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> "ChairmanOfTheBored" <RUBored@crackasmile.org> wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:25:31 -0400, just me
>> <nospam-webextra@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:51:27 -0700, ChairmanOfTheBored
>>><RUBored@crackasmile.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:56:57 GMT, just me
>>>><nospam-webextra@sbcglobal.net>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Just look around. Can you find any HD DVD-RAM products when this
>>>>>technology has been around for several years? Somebody's gotta be
>>>>>holding something back, eh?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HAS NOT been around for "several years". Get a clue boy. It took
>>>> them
>>>>up until a few years ago just to get decent lifespan figures for blue
>>>>lasers that READ, much less devices that are powerful enough to write.
>>>>
>>>> Stop making shit up, you stupid retard!
>>>
>>>I hope you don't talk to people like this in person. DVD-RAM
>>>technology HAS BEEN around several years. Since Hi-Def technology was
>>>also introduced several years ago, you can't tell me that absolutely
>>>no one in electronics could forsee HD DVD-RAM. Unbelievable! Money is
>>>the bottom line and it drives technology to become more advanced to
>>>make more money. Entrepreneurs look ahead to the future to calculate
>>>ways to maximize profits. I'll tell you something else that's being
>>>withheld from consumers - 100 mpg cars! But that's for another
>>>newsgroup.
>>
>>
>> Did you even read my post, you retarded twit!?
>>
>> HD requires BLUE lasers. Blue lasers were indeed invented years ago,
>> HOWEVER, they have only come up with a viable, long lasting version
>> recently, and THAT was only one limiting factor in your fantasy world.
>>
>> Do you know ANYTHING about manufacturing? It doesn't matter when an
>> idea is started. What matters is when it becomes a viable, profitable,
>> manufacturable technology.
>>
>> LCD displays are a perfect example.
>>
>> Maybe one day, you will catch up.
>>
>> And no, I only speak this way in person to dweebs like you. If you had
>> any brains at all, you wouldn't have made such a stupid post to start
>> with, worded in such a stupid manner.
>
> Blu Ray is already available:
>
> http://www.edgewise-media.com/p2~P~TDK-BDRE.htm
>
> The entire HD DVD writable has been a fiasco.
>
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