Posted by Derek Janssen on 12/31/07 02:25

Lloyd Parsons wrote:

>>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.
>>
>>(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)

> 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.

(Um...Is this old chestnut even still *working* after the PS3 2.10 upgrade?
"Uh, yeah, but they're too expensive!"--Whatever, Ebenezer.
But if I read correctly, you asked for, quote, "ANY" 1.1 players "at any
price", and as of December, we've officially got 'em. Live to
serve...Next old trenches-standby to shoot down?)

Derek Janssen (just feel free, any of those ol' '06 memory-lane
favorites--Aw, c'mon, how about one old "Evil Sony overlords" one, just
for nostalgia?)
ejanss1@verizon.net

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