12-05-2005
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| CD Freaks Reviewer
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: around the Pacific
Posts: 1,359
| Re: Blu-ray and HD-DVD; Will we see a unified next generation DVD format?
Blu-Ray/HD-DVD farce is storm in a tea cup Quote:
Toshiba recently dashed hopes of any compromise with rival Sony to bridge the gap between the technologies and, more worryingly, the chasm now separating the leading players in the movie, games, consumer electronics and computing worlds. Now, Toshiba could be lying because - apparently, and personally I don't believe it - big companies sometimes tell lies. Shocking but true, allegedly. [...] More than the technical hurdles, it may well come down to who will be viewed as the winner and who will take one for the team. After all, this is just another stupid format farce. Anyone with a Betamax video buried in the attic can tell you that we’ve been here before. It was dumb then and it's even dumber now.
Reports in recent weeks have suggested that Toshiba and Sony may actually be seeing sense, and the obscene amount of cash to made, from a single technology. Toshiba was first out of the gate to quash these reports as unfounded - but did admit that it is in talks. In my experience, the one that shouts ‘It’s not true’ first and loudest is the one most likely to pull the short straw in any outcome.
[...] Before this goes any further though, it should be made clear that all of the companies supporting each format have shareholders. This means they are a slave to the green. Which in turn means they have the loyalty of Judas and if there’s silver up for grabs they will betray, stab and string-up whomever they need to get it. Right now the whole market is posturing. The DVD equivalent of gibbering, rival football fans making lewd hand gestures to each other and shouting ‘Na-nana-na-na-na -my disc’s bigger than yours.’ It’s easy to pick a team before the technology is actually available and the depth of customers’ pockets has not yet been tested.
[...] it is likely that some form of compromise will be reached because no one wants confused customers. Confused customers = no sale.
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