Posted by ChairmanOfTheBored on 10/28/07 03:15

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:35:33 GMT, Derek Janssen
<ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:

>Not meaning to rattle sabers, just thought it was funny--
>
>One poster on one of the hi-def boards (with a little bit of a pro-Blu
>slant) was pointing out how the "feisty" pro-HD-DVD camp seems to be
>going through the Five Stages of Grief in their relationship with
>Blu-Ray's market lead:

Speaking of feisty, you should check out Ubuntu's forums on the issue.
The PS3 Ubuntu distro will read and allow viewing of HD DVDs, and it runs
on a PS3.

There is a patch for the Linux kernel for the UDF file system. The
Cell CPU is already in the Linux tree now, and the UDF file system soon
will be.
>
>1) Denial - "Just keep holding out, the market is still showing a 50-50
>split; with Paramount, the war could be going on for another three years
>before the public decides!"
>
>2) Bargaining - "There's enough room for two formats in the industry; if
> more people start buying dual players, maybe more studios can go neutral!"
>
>3) Anger - "Hah, those Blu-ray gamer-d00ds and their
>Playstations...Nyah, you can't even do PiP yet!"
>
>4) Despair - "It's pretty clear that the format war is already driving
>viewers away from hard disk, we just have to start gearing the industry
>to on-demand downloads..."
>
>5) Acceptance - (well, we're still working on that one)

Whatever.

>Derek Janssen (facing a new a.v.dvd world without Blu-Boy)
>ejanss1@verizon.net

Whatever. Both will survive. Y'all need to get that through yer thick
skulls.

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