Posted by ChairmanOfTheBored on 12/07/07 23:26

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:59:52 -0600, Good Man <heyho@letsgo.com> wrote:

>Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote in
>news:2813de59f398533ce3766fbce6cbb153@dizum.com:
>
>> "Sony-led backers of Blu-ray seem to have pulled ahead of rivals in the
>> race for a single high-def DVD standard..."
>>
>> Business Week article: http://easyurl.net/5ee
>>
>
>Sony's having an advantage? Sounds like 1980 or whenever the Walkman came
>out...

The walkman had no competition, dope.

>Sony products since 1990 have been overpriced with a heavy dose of
>poor workmanship and proprietary, customer-infuriating software.

Sony has been notorious for making good, high quality miniaturized
products. They are still good at it. They have excellent workmanship.

What they have is a piss poor attitude, and an "all mine or nothing"
bunch of idiots running the show.

Toshiba was first, and it was during the IBM, Toshiba, Sony joint
venture on the Cell CPU that Sony decided to spilt away and make their
own Hi definition video storage format. The retarded bastards won't come
out and play unless they are the boss of everything.

It's a goddamned shame that the studios sold out to them so many years
ago.

>
>In fact, Sony's history with proprietary formats makes me think HD-DVD will
>be the winner in the end (approx 2015).

Considering the other things "you think", I won't put much credence
into this projection. The markets are completely different between the
early to mid seventies when Americans were the main consumers of such
products, and now, with a globalized consumer economy. Both formats will
survive, because there are enough brand loyal idiots out there to keep
both alive.

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