Good for you, realizing you're talking out of your ass. How do you think electronic medical records get updated, exactly? God forbid we try and track a patient long term, especially those with complex medical issues.
Oh, and they are required to be played on a player that runs a Microsoft HDi application that uses 2x the resources of BDJ. If you consider subsidizing the DRAM industry to be a design win, then yeah, HD-DVD is great.
Do you honestly think that Joe Movie Watcher gives a flying fig about how much data you can put on a Blu-Ray? The movies fit on either disc, and approximately 3% of the population gives even a cursory glance at the extra features. They do not care what Seth Green has to talk about over the soundtrack of Austin Powers. They. do. not. care.
Blu-Ray won by default because they were better organized, not because of any technology differences. In terms of media (A/V content) there is exactly 0 dfference. They both use VC-1 and h.264, they can both support the same advanced audio codecs (Dolby TrueHD, DD+, whatever else), and they both have more space available on disc than could be used for a movie. Hell, some movies, even long ones, can fit on a disc TWICE.
News: that the US Government is monitoring all the traffic flowing through the internet backbones provided by major US service providers.
Not News(tm): that a company produces a device that can *GASP* *SHOCK* *HORROR* monitor network traffic.
Get a grip.
I think "the next 4 years" is really selling the electronics industry short. The players to read both formats are being designed right now. Broadcom (big player in single-chip MCs for digital electronics) has a chip that decodes both. Slap that into a drive with a few lasers (one each for DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray), and you got yourself a multi-format deck.
I also think the whole thing is moot. By the time any of the big manufacturers come out with their players, Broadcom's single chip solution to HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will have been implemented in decks by any electronics shop not directly involved with a standard. As a recent employee in the digital TV space, I can say unequivocally that dual-standard decks are so far along that there will hardly be a time that you can buy either format as a single-solution deck and not buy a combined-format deck.
Not to mention the fact that these types of things typically go to the low-end Chinese ODMs first, so they'll likely be cheap, too.
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Good for you, realizing you're talking out of your ass. How do you think electronic medical records get updated, exactly? God forbid we try and track a patient long term, especially those with complex medical issues.
I thought Bosch wrote that code and told WV not to use it like that. Anyway, it's probably written in Simulink.
"written"
It is probably a reference to Mao's Little Red Book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao#Images_from_.22The_Little_Red_Book.22
Oh, and they are required to be played on a player that runs a Microsoft HDi application that uses 2x the resources of BDJ. If you consider subsidizing the DRAM industry to be a design win, then yeah, HD-DVD is great.
Do you honestly think that Joe Movie Watcher gives a flying fig about how much data you can put on a Blu-Ray? The movies fit on either disc, and approximately 3% of the population gives even a cursory glance at the extra features. They do not care what Seth Green has to talk about over the soundtrack of Austin Powers. They. do. not. care.
Blu-Ray won by default because they were better organized, not because of any technology differences. In terms of media (A/V content) there is exactly 0 dfference. They both use VC-1 and h.264, they can both support the same advanced audio codecs (Dolby TrueHD, DD+, whatever else), and they both have more space available on disc than could be used for a movie. Hell, some movies, even long ones, can fit on a disc TWICE.
So.... nonsense.
News: that the US Government is monitoring all the traffic flowing through the internet backbones provided by major US service providers. Not News(tm): that a company produces a device that can *GASP* *SHOCK* *HORROR* monitor network traffic. Get a grip.
I think "the next 4 years" is really selling the electronics industry short. The players to read both formats are being designed right now. Broadcom (big player in single-chip MCs for digital electronics) has a chip that decodes both. Slap that into a drive with a few lasers (one each for DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray), and you got yourself a multi-format deck.
I also think the whole thing is moot. By the time any of the big manufacturers come out with their players, Broadcom's single chip solution to HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will have been implemented in decks by any electronics shop not directly involved with a standard. As a recent employee in the digital TV space, I can say unequivocally that dual-standard decks are so far along that there will hardly be a time that you can buy either format as a single-solution deck and not buy a combined-format deck. Not to mention the fact that these types of things typically go to the low-end Chinese ODMs first, so they'll likely be cheap, too. Matt