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RE: Lets try this one more time, and please read slowly to allow everything to sink in, OK?

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In Reply to: RE: Lets try this one more time, and please read slowly to allow everything to sink in, OK? posted by Audiophilander on December 30, 2009 at 23:46:04

>> They are still great players and I have a lot of inexpensive HD-DVD discs that either aren't available yet on BD or would use the same transfer and therefor be redundant. <<

Can't believe you're still pining for hd dvd. Face it: you not only bet on the wrong horse, but you're too big a loser to admit you were wrong and are grasping at straws to convince yourself you are a wise man. Pathetic.

My point is, you failed to understand why your preferred format was a failure and it doesn't instil much confidence in your predictions that 3D will gain traction. Do a simple survey among your friends and get a sense of how many of them want to buy all new video gear and wear glasses just to watch a few hyped up crappy shows. 3D is dead on arrival as a home video concept. It's too gimmicky. It's a higher quality gimmick than it was in the jaws III days, but it's a gimmick nonetheless.

>> My "advocacy" was primarily limited to a criticism of the BD cartel, excuse me, consortium, for imposing zone access limitations and also holding Oppo hostage by disallowing their standard all region access for DVDs as a condition for licensing their new BD players (making a "one box" solution all but impossible). <<

As for this region coding you're hung up on, it's more a mandate of the studios. It therefore cuts across any format. If HD DVD had succeeded, it too would have necessitated a provision for region coding. Why? Because like it or not, different studios own the rights to certain titles in different regions and wish to protect their intellectual property. That's just a fact.

>> I also favored HD-DVD as a less expensive format for both hardware and discs that would be more likely to entice a wide audience to high definition programming. <<

That's bullshit. There is no valid argument for a cost difference between the formats. It was all about the specifications.

>> In light of last years global economic upheaval my original perspective may have had greater merit than you'll ever publicly admit. <<

Face it, auph, you bet on the wrong horse and you bet against a superior format with more capacity. You stupidly advocated against higher bitrates and therefore against better quality. In your defense I think you were just one of hundreds of lemmings that forums like AVS run by biased management whipped up into an anti-BD frenzy. But the fact remains that not only did you back the wrong format; you did so in spite of inferior quality. This makes you a loser twice over. Not only did you fail to pick the winner but you failed in the endeavor for better audio and video which is what this hobby is all about.

>> Care to make an unofficial wager? <<

Why unofficial? If you want to bet that this 3D gimmick will take off, I'd be glad to oblige. We need to have some metric to agree upon so that the loser can't wiggle out of the bet. How about sales of 3D home video titles never achieve greater than 5% market share and 3D broadcasts air no more than 5% of all shows on the air. If by 2013 your 3D predictions fall shy of those numbers, you owe me $50. Deal?
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