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Warner Backs Blu-Ray. End Times For HD-DVD?
An anonymous reader writes "The NY Times reports: In addition to Apple, Warner Brothers is now going to throw its weight behind the Blu-ray format for high-definition disks. Warner has been the only major studio to publish its movies in both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. Today, the studio announced that from now on, it would only issue movies in Blu-ray.
Richard Greenfield, the media analyst with Pali Research, wrote that this marks the end of the format wars: "We expect HD DVD to 'die' a quick death.""
Betamax all over again is right... The Sony product will take the fall, just as it always has.
Betamax, miniDisc, MemoryStick, UMD.... All Sony creations, all worthless, all failures, all reduced to half of a 4-foot shelving unit at Wal Mart until their demise some short months later. Even the PS3 is washed up at this point (as the PS2 was still outselling the PS3 less than a year ago, which was the last time I cared to look).
Who was complaining about the data rate of the two formats a few posts back? What difference does that make? My very first CD-Rom was 300k/s. The one I use now is 7800k/s. Give it some time.
Welcome to last year, when LG released the first dual-format player. BTW, are you aboslutely sure these 'couple of companies' (reference please?) are still going to be working on these players now that Warner has said they're going Blu-Ray only? Absolutely?
You sound like someone who either 1) Owns a 360 w/HD-DVD player and no PS3 OR 2) Owns an HD-DVD player AND a bunch of movies in that format. Well, it was a gamble. I gambled buying the PS3 and a bunch of Blu-ray movies. Seems like a good idea now. Not so much for yourself. Oh well, shit happens.
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
Yawn, another schmuck who has to convince himself that the money spent on his HD setup was worth it.
I've got a 1080p display, HDDVD (via laptop & HDMI) and BluRay (PS3), and ya know what? I don't give a damn about HD. The quality improvement (and yes, there is a difference) doesn't fucking matter to me. There's so little thats actually WORTH buying, that the quality of the picture is a moot point.
But go on with your elitist attitude about how fucking special you are and how anyone who doesn't agree that HD is the most amazing thing in the world is just a kid who doesn't know any better.
Of course, I'm also in the camp that thinks the Wii is every bit as as good as the PS3 and 360, because graphics don't matter as much to me as content, which pisses other elitists off as well. I'd guess from your posting that you see the Wii as a toy, and think that "real" gamers won't touch it.
Who are going to suffer the most as the western banking system crumbles to nothing. I can't wait really. Your fat ass will be barbecued in the hood when cannibalism takes hold. You're the real sucker if you think your cushy based on intangibles poof created money and therefore your "important well paid" job is going to last much longer when the nations that actually build things and do productive work start to be dominant. Your bank, and I don't care which one it is in the western first-world, is insolvent right now for all practical purposes, all of them. They are in quiet panic mode trying to "fix" the derivatives and bundled mortgage CDO disasters, and they will not be able to do it by "injecting liquidity", because that is precisely the lunatic tactic that got them into trouble in the first place. Your stocks are going to be worth shit, along with any western bonds, because all they can do at this point is print up cash, which makes it worth less, and less and less and less. This is basic econo 101. You can't keep paying off an IOU with more IOUs, eventually the holders are going to want something real, or you get cutoff, and in this century, it is going to be the manufacturing and energy exporting powerhouses that rule, not the type shit up and trade around data bits places. That is necessary, but it doesn't create wealth, it just shuffles it around. The west is going to be cutoff at some point and bypassed, and they won't need the western consumer market when they have billions of people elsewhere who actually work for a living and have real tangibles to trade with, comprehende?
Happened throughout history, and when empires fall, they usually go fast, and it usually isn't very pretty either. Fatcat aristocrats and bloated burghers are the first to go too, because they can't really do anything but be leeches.
In other words, enjoy your expensive restaurant meals and media players (bread and circuses to keep the rabble-that's you- amused and not looking into what is going on) now while you still can, your blubber layer can carry you for a few weeks maybe, and here's a tip, the back of the toilet has a few gallons of semi clean water. Good luck arrogant one.