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Blu-ray Coming Out On Top?
wh0pper writes "Some interesting information came out at at the latest Blu-ray Disc Association meeting at Twentieth Century Fox Studios. Apparently, 90 percent of the CE industry and seven movie studios now back Blu-ray Disc. And most of the IT industry (except Microsoft) also supports Blu-ray Disc. This has prompted Mr. Parsons, Senior VP of Advanced Products Development for Pioneer Electronics, to say "There's no format war looming because it's not Blu-ray vs. HD DVD. It's simply Blu-ray versus standard definition DVD... Currently, DVD has 50,000 titles presently available, and both formats will co-exist for several years to come with new BD players supporting both formats. BD players make the perfect complement to new HDTVs that are being purchased by consumers." Mr. Parsons then announced that the upcoming CES would be used to launch Blu-ray Disc."
So last we heard, some high-tech honchos had gotten together to press Congress on the issue of the official digital IP (Internet Protocol) switchover date. That legislation is now drafted, and sets a December 31, 2008 date by which ISPs who're still hogging those analogous IPv4 addresses have got to give it up. One of the issues still unresolved is what to do about the nagging problem of the 100 million American households that are still using IPv4 in-addr.arpa style addresses, who are gonna be understandably disgruntled at the prospect of needing to go in on some new gear just to keep the net a-pumpin'. Lawmakers are (this just in!) split down party lines, with Republicans favoring a subsidy for low-income households and Democrats favoring a subsidy for anyone who buys a set-top box.
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I'm turning in my Slashdot badge as I type this. *rolls eyes*
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slashdot should filter out any posts in the first X posts that has 'fp' 'fristy psot' 'frosty piss' or any of the other scrabble misfits that find their way into first posts. Would be nice if worthless posts like this just disappeared off the radar.
It's not so much the first-post thing. It's more the fact that all the parent had to say was
"yes, I agree"
Nothing worse than a forum full of responses like this. Well, only thing worse than that is a post like this that's just continuing an off-topic thread that should have been allowed to die.
That said, the parent was slightly more on-topic and considerbly less retarded than Adolf's reply.