Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 12/31/07 02:51

In article <cqYdj.6030$tK5.3181@trndny03>,
Derek Janssen <ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:

> 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

Read what I said again.

They've got what 1 profile 1.1 standalone and the PS3 or is it 2
standalones that are 1.1.

Regardless, most of the mfgs rushed 2nd gen boxes to market just short
of the do or die date when 1.1 had to be in them. Since then almost no
new boxes.

But let's assume they finally get off their collective asses and produce
at least one model from each mfg that is 1.1 - when will just one of
them be sub-$200? I don't think I can see that far down the road from
where I sit.

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