Posted by Winfield on 12/29/07 20:57

Shonk wrote:
> why are people so negative about blu-ray

I'm guessing the company most associated with Blu-Ray - Sony, has
something to do with all the bad vibes.


> I love my 360 and have nearly 50k gamer score
>
> But blu-ray is clearly the better format


Yep. HD-DVD is a transition format. Blu-Ray is supposed to be the
future bride and darling of high definition DVD.

Saw above synopsis on some industry insider web page. Didn't want to
pay $1,200 for the rest of the PDF analysis paper.

Sony has been known to drop the ball by lack of support for key players
and distributors in the past.

Blu-Ray supposedly has that Java-enabled everything. I did see a 2006
article by a smaller developer complaining about "no help" from Sony on
this. Microsoft supports it's Windows community with SDK kits and .Net
frameworks.

Sony was charging smaller developers $60,000 and $40,000 for it's
Blu-Ray Java developers kits, glue, scissors and graph paper.

Let's see if Sony can get it's shithead attitude straightened out this
time. It only took them ~10 years to market an on-the-rocks MP3
portable player without their "Sonic Sound Stage" and proprietary format
features.

(Careless factual errors in my rant are property of my black kitty-cat.)
- Winfield

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