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Broadcom's Treaty In the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD War

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everyone-holding-hands dept.

eldavojohn writes "For a while there, I didn't know what to buy. Blu-Ray or HD-DVD? Which would be the leader? Only a fool would buy discs of the technology that would be the next Betamax. Fortunately, my dilemma has been solved by Broadcom. From the article: 'Consumer and communications chip supplier Broadcom Corp. Thurs. (Nov. 9) introduced what the company labeled the first single-chip solution to support both Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD standards.' I guess I'll just wait until I can get a player that will play them both."

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  1. Re:Good luck by Ravatar · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    We have considered your offer and present this counter-proposal:

    1) Buy Windows Vista or a standalone player anyway and spend the next 12 months complaining at every opportunity about how horrible both are.
    b) Get over the fact that we will NEVER allow our content to be played on an opensource player (at least one without without HDCP).
    4) Praise Linux/FOSS more frequently, your overzealousness isn't showing yet.