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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer Does that make it untrue? Blu-Ray Hi-Def® is still not 1.) reasonably-priced Jeez, it's barely two years old. Were you just as impatient when computers started to appear?
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Quote: Originally Posted by jimmac WRONG! In 1997 I bought a laser disc / DVD combo player ( since I had a pretty big LD collection this was a good way to get started on DVD ) for $1000.00! DVD players were around $ 200.00 in 2000 ( the thi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer I doubt any new models will come to market, but the ones available now aren't going to vanish from the face of the Earth, and at least LG will continue to support theirs: Source - Seems like LG realize…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Guartho No. It's simply a relevant analogy. Godwin's law is a BS statement for use against any analogy. The point is Blu-ray is Sony. Everyone else is along for the ride. Panasonic have more patents in Blu-ray t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bitemymac Need to do three things.... 1) lower the price. 2) lower the price. 3) lower the price. That strategy didn't really help Toshiba.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 So without "free" deals like TV bundles and built-in Playstations, nobody is buying Blu-Ray players. Yes they are. What you're reading in that article is Betanews making their own conclusions. This is wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bitemymac Well, I'm just summing up what was written in the article. So, which part of the article is crap, again? For the week of Jan. 12th, the 20k+ blu-ray player units were given away as part of the promo offers …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell This is a strawman argument. -You don't play your downloads on your plasma without an Apple TV. The same way you cannot watch cable without a cable box, or record television without a DVR, or play a Blu-ra…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Walter Slocombe Will likely happen, Fox testing the water with "blue harvest" is an indicator, and the extra 20GB on BD means there is at least the space to do it, but then its FOX and aren't they {whispers BD+} evil? …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison I think the landscape in 5 years is going to look vastly different and in 10 years the thought of movies on optical discs will see strange. Viva La Revolution! Perhaps, but I want to watch movies before …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Another problem that is holding back downloading/streaming content is everyone forming their own services and camps that you have to buy into. Their needs to be interoperability between the services and hardwa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison I don't see the humor either. Both of these formats have effectively SACD/DVD Audio'd consumers again. 1. Trying to cram expensive movies down consumer throats. 2. Requires potentially expensive infras…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cory Bauer I don't see the humor. This is a frustrating time for a consumer who wants to enjoy HD films. On the one hand, the artificially-priced and feature-complete monopolistic disc format is on it's death bed... …
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Quote: Originally Posted by bitemymac Just to clear up the playing field, what proportion make up for the independent purchases and how many were the give away with HDTV purchases? Since the last stats, it's hard to get a honest figure. I'm n…
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It seems that if you want an HD DVD player you have to hurry: If you can find them:
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Quote: Originally Posted by Walter Slocombe http://www.techspot.com/news/28702-b...ouncement.html 93 % of the market for BD WITHOUT counting the PS3. I'd say that has a chance of "trumping all" -- week ending 1/5/08, Blu-ray Disc player …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Zandros Variation. How many other synonyms to "Apple Inc." can you think of? /Adrian Just write Apple like they do everywhere else - even in the real press. AI isn't Reuters and the stories aren't official pre…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bitemymac If you had read the article, it says(pay attention to the highlighted words) http://www.betanews.com/article/prin...nth/1201203983 Therefore, 23k units consist of free give away by contributions of …
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Why does AI have to refer to Apple as "the Cupertino-based company" or "the Cupertino, Calif.-based firm" in every news article?
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Quote: Originally Posted by bitemymac The Ratio (or %) of 10:1 can be 10 unit to 1 or 10 million to 1 million.... but what are the actual units being moved? Are you that naive not knowing what unit ratio means vs. the real unit volumes? How d…