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Evolving Blu-ray Format Will Leave Some Behind

Reservoir Hill writes "Blu-ray may have taken a commanding lead in the next-generation format war, but Betanews is reporting that early supporters of Blu-ray will be left out in the cold when the Blu-ray Disc Association introduces BD Profile 2.0, expected to arrive in October. Unlike HD DVD, which from the very beginning mandated features such as local storage, a second video and audio decoder for picture-in-picture, and a network connection, the companies behind Blu-ray took a different approach to keep costs down. 'We should have waited another year to introduce Blu-ray to the public, but the format war changed the situation,' said one developer. Representatives at the Blu-ray booth at CES said that the PlayStation 3 is currently the only player they would recommend, due to upcoming changes to the platform. Asked if they were concerned about a backlash from early adopters who supported the format from the beginning, one representative said: 'They knew what they were getting into.'"

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  1. My contribution to the discussion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A nigger walks into a bar with a duck on his shoulder. Bartender says, "Hey, cool, where did you get that?" Duck says, "Africa, they are all over the fucking place."

  2. goddamn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my man you see I can't understand
    why you wanna say nigger to your brother man
    talking black pride then you call yourself a nigger
    don't bring yourself down cos it just don't figure
    take a look at yourself and your history
    you don't look like a goddamn nigger to me
    it's a negative word and the white man made it
    gave you a name to dominate and trade it
    making blood money of his very own race man
    and all of this because
    the color of your face man

    Nigger, Nigger, Nigger, Nigger

    placed and educated in a neighborhood of crime
    taught from the beginning that you weren't worth time
    liquor-store and gun store next to one another
    with only one purpose so you all kill each other
    leaving one less problem to worry about
    that's the way they do it this is how it turns out
    and justice for all with the American government
    I wanna know where all the goddamn money went
    we didn't see it and it didn't do no good
    I guess you couldn't give a fuck about a black neighborhood

    Nigger, Nigger, Nigger, Nigger

    Nigger you're the real niggers, you're the real niggers,
    you're the real niggers, you're the real niggers
    there's always gonna be fanatical minorities
    the Ku Klux Klan and fucked up authorities
    conservative cunts and religious preachers
    I don't care cos they ain't our teachers
    living a life they say is free from sin
    then they judge another person by the color of their skin
    I feel ashamed of myself I'm a white human being
    surrounded by suckers to afraid to be seeing
    they ain't such a thing called superior race
    and there ain't nothing special 'bout the color of your face
    you've got a one way ticket to a dead end street
    the pressure is on so feel the heat
    media pollution is a very bad solution
    hypocritical hype is your only contribution
    so leave us alone and give your brothers some space
    cos you're a lousy contribution to the human race
    Nigger, Nigger...