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  • Quote: Originally Posted by kupan787 Quick question... I am considering purcahsing a projector for my front room to use for watching HD and SD movies, and the ocasional HDTV shows in the evening. I am looking for some suggestions on what to bu…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by crentist And you will most likely be waiting another year. Apple and Cingular have a lot of money invested in the iPhone. As has been vigorously discussed on this forum already, Apple has to make sure that the iPhone i…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Kolchak Not only was cdfreaks wrong, they absolutely refuse to fix their article or publish a correction. Here's their breathless article clearly saying all of Bollywood is going HD DVD. But look at the very source tha…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by max_naylor OK, I?m ordering a truckload of chill pills and rationing them out. Pronto. Fuck yeah, almost makes having a stupid poll seem worth it. All I want is a video Ipod. Proper video Ipod, not the music jobb…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Northgate So it's basically 100 against 1 in this forum. And I find it funny that the 100 doesn't consider themselves "fanboys" or schilling or rooting for their preferred format. But boy they hit HMurch hard for bei…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by tundraboy As a lot of other posters observed, Sony makes great hardware but can't distinguish shit from software. I don't know if it is possible for any organization to overnight acquire the sort of institutional know…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Save your money. I'll accept some solid reasoning that goes beyond the usual suspects. 1. CE Support 2. Vendor support 3. 2:1 ratio for sales. Or at least try to explain to my how a dead format …
  • Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison I like Combos as well. The ability to play the movie on a billion DVD players is a nice feature. I think it's going to play a vital role in the success of HD DVD against a stout Blu-ray Disc Association he…
  • Check this out: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03...ay_price_cuts/ and the average price of Blu-Ray DVD's on amazon is now less than HD-DVD...
  • Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison You're too busy cheeleading for one side and the only casualty is your character. My champion is HD loving consumers. If HD DVD pissed me off I'd cast them away just as fast. In the battle of "Lesser of t…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by snoopy I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but our family used a PS2 to play DVDs for three, maybe four, years. Even then, no one felt a need for a stand alone player, but I bought one a year or two ago because they were …
  • Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM That looks spectacular. So much creativity potential, and the first device produced with the idea isn't really for creative tasks. Did Apple buy the exclusive rights to that? It would be pretty nice to see …
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Kendoka > And I, personally, don't think "American film companies" would mind there being several formats worldwide. Actually they might even prefer it (the whole "localization" idea). Take your TV-format (NTS…
  • Just reading the Sydney Morning Herald about the phone they mentioned the name Jefferson Han as related to the project. This is merely conjecture, but if they are using his touch screen technology, this was developed at the courant mathematics inst…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by User Tron That's why CDMA won and GSM lost. Nah, it's because of Qualcomm. Think of the worst super-villain you can and turn that into a company. That will give you Qualcomm. Their royalties amount to gouging as m…
  • I had heard rumours of a 33"'er, that was some time back however. One wonders if they launch that then their whole line may be revamped... who knows... I want the price to come down before they start tacking on more features...
  • Holey moley, ok a few notes. If amazon is anything to go by (maybe debatable...) but: Their stock of Blu-Ray has taken an enormous leap, well over what HD-DVD has. This suggests to me that they are expecting possibly to move quite a lot of tha…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Based on what? There are over a million BD players in home today and HD DVD sill sells more titles on Head to Head blockbuster challenges. Dude, they don't. One quick look at the eproductwars site wil…
  • Quote: Originally Posted by Dazabrit Off topic...but whereabouts in NZ do you come from? I am currently in the hellish nightmare known as the UK and im looking to relocate to Kiwi-land in the next 18- months. 8) A little town called Tauranga. …
  • No prescence in Australia. Hmmm, maybe the dingos ate them all...