Re: Easy solution: Just don't buy Sony hardware or Microsoft products.

Those of us with an association with Stanford got the original Macs at deep discount, and I've been a Mac user ever since, now on the new 20" Intel iMac that looks a bit like a flat panel TV. I ask you MS bashers what you use for a spreadsheet if it's not the venerable Excel or for word processing if not Word. These programs have been around for years and have served us well. Don't confuse those with the various MS OS that have tried to emulate the Macintosh graphical user interface (GUI) over the years. I used a GUI and mouse contraption at SRI before the group went to ZEROX PARC where Steve Jobs saw an implementtion of a GUI. That stuff ran on a maxed out DEC PDP-11 at SRI. I used it to edit my papers; it seemed miraculous compared to editing in TICO, or cutting, pasting, and retyping.

Sure Steve Jobs may be an innovative artist compared to business entrepreneur Bill Gates, but so what? MS has done some fine software, just as Sony makes some fine video equiment.

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Topic - Samsung to make dual player - Jack G 05:04:20 04/13/07 (20)

Universal is the only major studio not releasing blu-ray at the moment - Jazz Inmate 10:36:55 04/13/07 (18)

Not likely any time soon, if ever. - Jack G 11:32:43 04/13/07 (17)

Blu-Ray needs to win this fight. - oscar 06:29:58 04/14/07 (16)

Nonsense - Jack G 06:56:59 04/14/07 (15)

no lossless or uncompressed pcm - Joe Murphy Jr 13:04:50 04/14/07 (4)

I'd want the HD video with uncompressed 24/192 or SACD 5.1 audio tracks. - oscar 09:07:26 04/16/07 (0)

Re: no lossless or uncompressed pcm - Jack G 17:00:42 04/14/07 (2)

audio quality - Joe Murphy Jr 18:06:09 04/14/07 (1)

We are basically in agreement. - Jack G 08:46:02 04/15/07 (0)

So you don't think the extra storage space is needed ? - oscar 07:20:33 04/14/07 (9)

No - Jack G 11:15:45 04/14/07 (4)

I don't expect "new" BD movies to NOT work on "old" BD players. - oscar 11:23:27 04/14/07 (3)

Unknown - Jack G 11:47:19 04/14/07 (2)

Re: Unknown - oscar 19:10:25 04/14/07 (1)

Re: Unknown - Jack G 08:11:02 04/15/07 (0)

BR MAY be theoretically superior, but I consider Sony the Microsoft of consumer electronics--a monopolistic bully... - jeffreybehr 10:42:30 04/14/07 (3)

Easy solution: Just don't buy Sony hardware or Microsoft products. - oscar 11:16:18 04/14/07 (2)

Re: Easy solution: Just don't buy Sony hardware or Microsoft products. - dbphd 11:34:22 04/15/07 (1)

Since you brought it up, I've been blessed with having to work in a Unix environment. - oscar 16:37:39 04/15/07 (0)

Better link - Jack G 05:15:53 04/13/07 (0)

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Re: Easy solution: Just don't buy Sony hardware or Microsoft products. - dbphd 11:34:22 04/15/07 (1)

Since you brought it up, I've been blessed with having to work in a Unix environment. - oscar 16:37:39 04/15/07 (0)

Re: Easy solution: Just don't buy Sony hardware or Microsoft products.

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