You're kidding, right? HD-DVD is no more open nor public than Blu-Ray. Additionally, Blu-Ray is not owned or controlled by Sony any more than the CD.
Sony are/backers/ of the format. They are part of the Blu-Ray Disc Association but they by no stretch of the imagination are sole controllers.
Wikipedia tells me that these are the directors of Blu-Ray:
* Apple Inc.
* Dell
* Hewlett Packard
* Hitachi
* LG Electronics
* Mitsubishi Electric
* Panasonic (Matsushita Electric)
* Pioneer Corporation
* Royal Philips Electronics
* Samsung Electronics
* Sharp Corporation
* Sony Corporation
* Sun Microsystems
* TDK Corporation
* Thomson
* Twentieth Century Fox
* Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group / Buena Vista Home Entertainment
* Warner Home Video Inc.
In addition to the directors, there's 65 'contributors' to the format, and 94 members of the association.
Where I live we recently had a bad rainstorm where much of the citys drainage infrastructure failed resulting in flooding. But it's okay, we don't need better drainage systems because this was a freakish 1 in 150 year event.
The problem?
We've had one of these every year for the past three years.
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Last I heard ed was in the space time continuum. No word on prefect's current whereabouts.
You may want to sit down and consider *why* infection rates have been dropping in recent years.
Repetitive music rules ok, right?
I love their advertising too. Why just the other day I saw a car driving about town with "Win ME" written all over it.
Just brilliant.
I mean how often do you say "I just want to punch something"
Never. Is something wrong with me?
Does this mean we can stop a lot of this silly "think of the children"-bashing now?
Sounds like you two need to get together for a pint.
Yes, curse Every Country But America and their stoopid science-based measurement system.
Shit I'm glad I don't watch much in the way of telly or movies any more.
You're kidding, right? HD-DVD is no more open nor public than Blu-Ray. Additionally, Blu-Ray is not owned or controlled by Sony any more than the CD.
/backers/ of the format. They are part of the Blu-Ray Disc Association but they by no stretch of the imagination are sole controllers.
Sony are
Wikipedia tells me that these are the directors of Blu-Ray:
* Apple Inc.
* Dell
* Hewlett Packard
* Hitachi
* LG Electronics
* Mitsubishi Electric
* Panasonic (Matsushita Electric)
* Pioneer Corporation
* Royal Philips Electronics
* Samsung Electronics
* Sharp Corporation
* Sony Corporation
* Sun Microsystems
* TDK Corporation
* Thomson
* Twentieth Century Fox
* Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group / Buena Vista Home Entertainment
* Warner Home Video Inc.
In addition to the directors, there's 65 'contributors' to the format, and 94 members of the association.
Sony-controlled indeed.
Betamax, MiniDisc, Memory Stick, SACD, UMD... ... Floppy Disk, Compact Disc...
...to start backing Blu-Ray.
Racist how, exactly? Who ever mentioned race? What's wrong with you?
It goes way beyond Clinton. Remember the DMCA is just a local ratification of the WIPO treaty, not much more.
Well, you see, the removal of the need to carry a plastic card at all times clearly equals the abolishment of human rights.
These madmen must be stopped now!
Oh, and prostitution, too.
Oh our country had the perfect solution to that problem. They made it legal.
Cleared it right up, it did.
</sarcasm>
One of Samsungs player lines supports Ogg quite well. Their YP-U1 is a great little 512MB unit.
No thanks, I think I'd rather vote Grimlock.
The OS just grays out my desktop and pops up a dialog box telling me I've got to reboot.
Sounds like... a bummer.
Four, I mean Five, I mean, Fire!
Really? Which one?
I agree with your post 100%.
In addition, they have also given up describing MS and Windows with those silly names you mentioned.
Perhaps the interviewer should have rephrased the question:
"Where does it want to go today?"
Where I live we recently had a bad rainstorm where much of the citys drainage infrastructure failed resulting in flooding. But it's okay, we don't need better drainage systems because this was a freakish 1 in 150 year event.
The problem?
We've had one of these every year for the past three years.
I thought it was because the logo, when viewed in a mirror, looks like 'anus'