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HD DVD Demo a Disappointment
triso writes to tell us that the recent unveiling of the new Toshiba HD DVD production model met with a few difficulties. From the article: "It was supposed to be the grand unveiling of a new generation in home entertainment when Kevin Collins of Microsoft Corp. popped an HD DVD disc into a Toshiba production model and hit 'play.' Nothing happened. The failed product demo at this week's International Consumer Electronics Show was hardly an auspicious start for the HD DVD camp in what's promising to be a nasty format war similar to the Betamax/VHS video tape battle."
Or did Kevin Collins of Microsoft Corp. not have a first born child to offer up to the IP gods?
"1984" was ment to be a warning, not a guidebook. You hear that Kim Jong-il!? BushCo?!
Tthis is not a failed demo. Even the Toshiba executives cant get around their new DRM technology.
Moving Pictures...?
Sure... I mean, look at the glitch MS had when demoing Windows 95; we all know that was in no way representative of the final product.
It was Win 98 actually. & parent should be modded Funny, not Insightful.
Size matters too.. Unless you believe some girlfriends.
-- these are only opinions and they might not be mine.
I find myself feeling like WWII era Ukraine. Squished between Hitler and Stalin. Destined to be punished by whoever wins. I, for one, can't wait to be liberated by either blu-ray or HD-DVD.
but if you give Murphy an inch, he'll make sure to make a fool of you every time. ---- actually in this case it would be give Finangle 2.5 cm and he'll make sure to make a fool... (and yes a double joke is in this posting)
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They were, but the film was stored on HD DVD
The resolution is just so high on these new video formats, that the human eye is not capable of deciphering the image. Fortunately, the hardware makers are going to put limits on how much throughput can come through our monitors/tvs until the human eye can see the image. Once that part is taken care of, then everything will be fine. And to think everybody thought that scaling down the image on the monitors was a bad thing.
Second point, another famous demo failure I will point out is the infamous "Windows 98 Blue Screen of Death" that Microsoft had back in the day trying to show it off
I don't see how this demo counts as a failure as it accurately demonstrated the typical user experience with that particular product.
Pre-canned Evolution Links for all those Slashdot holy wars.
Exactly :). The system detected that more than five people were in the room, necessitating an upgrade of the license from "Family Viewing" to "Public Performance".
Few years back when Quicktime streaming was being demonstrated he had a rack of probably 16 monitors (off their own computers), and was demonstrating how a single machine could stream to all the machines at once just fine.
Every single machine locked up and crashed just after starting playback.
#!/bin/csh cat $0
By far the most common use for copying digital entertainment is to share it in a way that deprives the distributor of income. And look, here's the worlds smallest violin playing the worlds saddest song just for them. Har, har.
Nah it's like this instead ..
.. you gotta recompile your kernel"
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With twice the resolution of 1080i
You mean 1080p? LOL
True -
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Windows 95 was much crappier than that demo
---- "Logoff! That cookie shit makes me nervous!" - A. Soprano
Blasphemy. Any Mac user will tell you that Macs don't crash.
Still IMing in the stone age?
So tell me: if even geeks are indifferent to HD disks, what will be the man in the street's reaction?
Depends on how gullible the man in the street is. "They say it's the latest and greatest and blows away what I already have and everyone else at work will be jealous and they'll think I have a big dick. I gotta get it!"
The road to hell is paved with Cat 5 cable.
Imagine the combo:/ HD-DVD+RW/BluRay~R/BluRay~RW/BluRay=R/BluRay=RW-co mpatible...
DVD-RAM/-R/+R/-RW/+RW/HD-DVD-R/HD-DVD+R/HD-DVD-RW