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In Reply to: RE: "Link? Source?" - See link... posted by Audiophilander on December 31, 2007 at 12:58:26

>> If by monetary support you mean buying movies I like, I plead no contest; if you mean donations made to a one format cause, nope. <<
Oh, cut the crap already. You support one format and one format only: HD DVD. Exclusively. I've read your take on many movies you gush over on the film forum. The Pirates films, for example. You like 'em a lot and there's no doubt that you'd buy them if they were on HD DVD. You are an exclusive fanboy and for much worse reasons than you think I'm a fanboy. The problem with you is that you're either too stupid or too dishonest to admit it to yourself and so it's no wonder you can't admit it to anyone else.
>> Comparing the audio format war to the video format war is a serious error because there are other factors to be taken into account with high definition such as the government mandated analog/digital changeover. <<
That affects TVs, auphl. It no way affects or mandates consumer's buying a next-gen DVD format, and if you read the business page of the NYT today, you'd see a very stern article that basically warns against adopting either format and claims that most HDTV owners are perfectly happy with DVD. You add into the mix new chips that Intel is coming out with, and a method to download huge amounts of data quickly and there is absolutely every reason to think optical formats are dead as far as HD films are concerned.
>> Dual format SACD/DVD-A players did bridge the gap, but the prices took too long to come down and they had little impact because the interest in those formats never reached the threshold of mass acceptance. <<
There was a $200 universal player fairly early in the game. It didn't help. You need to push one format and support it or there will be intransigence in the market and the formats will fail. The studios will need to aggressively manufacture and market a next-gen DVD format and start phasing out DVD if the optical formats are going to have a chance against MS's vision for downloadable HD films.

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