Posted by Derek Janssen on 11/15/07 20:22

ninphan wrote:

> On Nov 15, 2:04 pm, Lloyd Parsons <lloydpars...@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>As for whether or not the 1.0 players will be able to play with
>>>>featurettes, they demonstrated this on the DMP-BD10A with War. Not
>>>>only will it let you play the 1.1 parts separately, but it doesn't
>>>>need any input from the user - it recognizes what the player is
>>>>capable of and will offer the menus based on that.
>>
>>>Although according to HD supporters this week, Blu having 1.1 is now
>>>apparently a BAD thing, as "Uninformed customers might not realize they
>>>can't play 1.1 disks on an early non-updated player, and end up bringing
>>>a class-action suit against Sony..."
>>
>>>(Yes. I don't make these quotes up.
>>>So, Blu fans are jealous of HD for having something that could get the
>>>company sued...I'm confused, which way is the wind blowing today?)
>>
>>Well, you claim you don't make them up, but where is the link?- Hide quoted text -
>
> Go to www.highdefdigest.com, click on the "Forums" tab, click on the
> HD DVD vs.Blu-ray Smackdown forum.
>
> The thread will be within the first two pages. Pretty stupid really.
> In fact the majority of pro-HD DVD threads in there are just
> reiterated bullshit, nonsense, the kind of stuff the European HD DVD
> Promotions Group likes to utter. That place sure went downhill quickly
> when AVS Forum was shut down.

And again, the idea of HD simply saying "You'll be sor-ree!" with any
new Blu innovation seems to be keeping in line with the current HD
strategy of finding comfort in hopes that their product will win the war
by ACCIDENT, rather than any active public acceptance...
People buying cheap players because they don't know better, and kids who
want Transformers anyway, and all that.

It's one thing to actually have some forward-looking ambition for your
technology beyond the immediate competition, and another to be almost
thoroughly obsessed with schoolyard tactics against Brand A to "avenge"
losing public face--
HD's existence seems to have now almost *literally* become "A product to
annoy Blu-ray". Me, I'll go with the one that's not stagnating in the
marketplace, as only dead things float downstream.

Derek Janssen
ejanss1@verizon.net

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