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Posted by: Derek Janssen at December 31, 2007, 7:51 pm

Topic: NYTimes: BluRay vs. HD-DVD Forum: groupsrv

moviePig wrote: Quote:On Dec 31, 3:37 pm, Derek Janssen wrote: moviePig wrote: Good, straightforward article. (Sample resonant excerpt: "Almost three-quarters of ... HDTV owners surveyed said that standard DVD was good enough for them.") http://tinyurl.com/24gze7 And now, the actual DVD-group representative (and Blu-ray user) scans the mainstream article for goofball '06 mainstream mistakes: scan mistake light flashes Uh-oh, looks like we've got a few coming up here: - "In November, Howard Stringer, the Sony chairman, publicly acknowledged that the formats were in a stalemate, and predicted that neither side would fold." Fact: Stringer publicly disclaimed the remark after it got out of hand--What he claimed was, the industry *could* create a stalemate with customers, if no company took the initiative to make any advancement from the present situation...It was blown up by third-party misquotes into "Sony gives up the ship", which, for one, ain't so. - "But the rival camp points out that gamers are not buying the PS3 to watch movies," Fact: Oh, try THAT Microsoft quote on a real PS3 fan... ;) - "When high-definition DVD reaches its tipping point, studios will have to release their movies in both HD DVD and Blu-ray," Mr. Adams said. "No studio will be able to afford not to." Fact: Warner, for one, can't afford to--As the only studio still dual-format, they've been taking hell from their own Blu fans for using one HD-DVD VC-1 codec for both their HD and Blu releases, instead of the clearer Blu-dedicated MPEG-4 AVC, and the War has now focused on a siege on Warner's neutrality. Fans expect some announcement at next week's CES'08 (either of Warner giving in, or of showing less support for HD), and are almost literally counting the minutes....Eight days, btw. You're clearly seeing the world (as opposed to seeing the world clearly) through novitiate's glasses. Nevertheless, I'll watch this space for your take on CES. (Meanwhile, I can't help wondering if your adoption of Blu-Ray was hastened by the low prices HD-DVD caused.) No, it was by the fact that HD had pretty well isolated itself in the industry--to the point that even Microsoft was playing "Well, who needs disks anyway, it'll probably be all downloads!"--and I'd been through Beta and DiVX long enough to smell product-salvaging death signs... If the public doesn't know how to spot fourth-quarter corporate desperation, well, can't blame 'em; does take an old battle-veteran to spot these things--Call it the "If Bill Gates is fer it, I'm agin' it" factor. And again, the Warner argument has been the one technical rebuttal to the "Look at all the cheap prices!" argument of the Draft-Dodgers, which comes off sounding like the cries of vultures and war-profiteers who don't focus on the longterm effects of an artificially prolonged war, so long as their own pockets stay lined--Cheap players are fine by me; cheap(ly made) disks, by dual-frustrated companies, AREN'T. This has long since stopped being an argument of technical quality, and started becoming the national bum's-rush of a Guest Who Won't Leave. Derek Janssen ejanss1@verizon.net

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