Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 12/31/07 02:18

In article <lwXdj.2271$sX5.1177@trndny01>,
Derek Janssen <ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:

> Bogdan Macri wrote:
> > dork wrote:
> >>
> >> Another thing, Warner Brothers masters ALL it's new HD stuff in HD-DVD
> >> first, then copies it to Blu ray.
> >> So if your watching a Blu ..Beta Ray WB movie, it's just a copy of an
> >> HD-DVD.
> >
> > I'm sorry to hear that if I buy a "Blu-ray" disc made by Warner I'm only
> > getting HD DVD quality... that's pretty low of WB :)
>
> It's become the "symbol" of why the industry just isn't working under
> that dual-format system that the draft-dodgers think is so "livable" and
> "economic":
> Unless companies want to spend money creating two separately different
> industries--which Warner, for one, DOESN'T--any industry with two
> different formats is forced to sell to the Lowest Common Denominator.
> And as long as HD-DVD exists, *that* just happens to be Lowest.
> And that seems to be the problem with all the Dual-format studios right
> now...Oops, wait. There's aren't "all the dual studios" anymore, are
> there? Just Warner.
>
> Trust us: When we say we want to wipe HD off the face of the earth,
> it's not brand loyalty or rah-rah cheerleading for "evil" Sony.
> It's wondering just how darn long we're going to have to suffer for
> buying an innately defective product, when all the machinery is readily
> available to NOT make it defective.
>
> Derek Janssen (CES'08 Countdown: 9 days...At this point, we'll even
> take a VC-1 Casablanca, if it's one more step toward Unconditional
> Warner Surrender)
> ejanss1@verizon.net

You want BD to win, I personally don't care which one does, and I'm not
overly in a rush to see one or the other win.

Until BD gets a profile 1.1 player out there at a sub-$200 pricepoint,
BD doesn't win, the war goes on. And since the BD mfgs can barely get
ANY profile 1.1's out there at any price, that doesn't look it will
happen anytime soon.

And that is the nub of it. It isn't the technology, the capacity of the
disc nor any of the other crapola that all of us early-adopters think
are so important, it is the PRICE!

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