Posted by ChairmanOfTheBored on 10/28/07 23:04

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:28:09 -0700, "Telstar" <none@none.net> wrote:

>
>"ChairmanOfTheBored" <RUBored@crackasmile.org> wrote in message
>news:3gv7i35o7tj47qdvf0snrp35bu0b874r1l@4ax.com...
>> 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.
>
>No we don't. You are simply wrong...both will NOT survive. It is very much
>more likely that neither will.
>
Your intelligence level (or lack thereof) is an insult to satellites
"around the world".

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