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High-Def Format Wars - Battle of the Freebies
An anonymous reader writes "It's come to this: eager to introduce the masses to the virtues of the next-gen DVD formats, the studios and manufacturers backing HD DVD and Blu-ray have begun giving discs away. It all started last month when Microsoft pacted with Universal to give away copies of 'King Kong' on HD DVD to consumers buying the XBox 360 HD DVD add on. Sony followed that up by offering a free 'Talladega Nights' Blu-ray with the first 500,000 PlayStation 3 units sold in the U.S.. Now today, HD DVD backer Toshiba has announced that it will give away *three* free HD DVD discs with every player sold for four months beginning on November 1st. With all these freebies, more people will likely have received free HD DVD/Blu-ray discs by the end of 2006 than will have actually paid for them."
go loonix!!
It's going to be funny when no one rushs out to buy either a HD DVD or BlueRay player and then return the freebie discs to the store that they purchased their product from and tell the store: "These "free DVDs" don't work I'm returning them for DVDs that work." When BestBuy folks try to explain that these HD-DVDs or BluRay free movies require the purchase of a very expensive player, consumers are going to either toss them mostly in the trash, toos them in a box just in case they ever buy one in the future, or just return the product and say that the store shouldn't carry DVDs that don't work in DVD players. Acting like a calm, dumb job average consumer will get best results from slashdotters. If you try to do this, don't even mention that you know what HD-DVD or BluRay is and that you know the formats don't work in a DVD player. Just state and repeat taht these DVDs don't work in standard DVD players and keep on requesting DVDs that work in a standard DVD player. The less you appear to know about electronics the better.
Meh, with perl you could write it in one line, and half of that would be comments!
WTF, offtopic, hey mods, it's ontopic if i'm replying to an above comment, if i was replying directly to the article then yes I would be offtopic yes, but making a joke about perl when replying to a comment about perl is most definitely on topic!