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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."
>What will you do with the ripped bytes?
encode them and put them on my iPod with video.
and fuck you for implying people wanting to rip their own disks are planning to break for law. some of us happen to live in countries where businesses don't own the government so much that format shifting is illegal.
I think both formats are going to die or stay in the second lane until the next best thing comes out.
Not everybody 'gets' the whole HD movement.
-Why should average shopper buy a BD or HD title if they already have it on DVD?
-How many consumers already think that DVD IS Hi Def?
-With all the Hi Def ready displays out there, how many actually show HD content?
-How many times do you go into a bar or sports restaurant where they DO have an HD display with Satellite hookup and HD content STILL SHOW Standard Def channels on the screen?
-How many times do you see in a public place the aspect ratio screwed up on one of those plasma displays?
The ONLY way BD/HD will surpass DVD is when the cost of a BD/HD title is less than a standard DVD and we don't see that happening at all, ever.
Video distributors will NOT stop making DVD's if they're selling and Hollywood will not issue an order to stop producing content for it for DRM sake.
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
At last year's macworld the mac that steve was using locked up (or at least the app he was using locked up, can't remember clearly) - he calmly noted that 'this is why we have backup systems for demos', pressed a button, and started that portion of the demo over on a different machine. He was demoing something in tiger and did note that it was not 'done' yet.