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Loner wrote:
Count Dooku wrote:
Holo-disks are far superior to both, but they aren't due to hit the market until 2008. I don't know how 1.4+ TB of information will be used, though.
Porn.
I remember seeing an article in some computer mag a few years ago that basically came down to that if some piece of computing tech isn't picked up by the porn industry, then it is unlikely to be a success if your aiming it at the average person.
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Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
weemadando wrote:Its especially stupid seeing as most people are just now riding the high on the DVD band-wagon. Do these groups seriously expect people to go out and buy all their fucking movie again so they can watch them in what will most often be an imperceptibly better version? No.
Actually, yes they do expect us. We won't, but the dumbasses who watch far too much TV for their own good will.

Sorry, that rhetorical question was badly worded. They want us to buy it all again while DVD is still riding high atop the crest of being the biggest consumer product of all time. And as I mentioned most people don't have the bits of kit (HD TVs for one - top notch surround sound for another) or even the technical knowledge or acuity of vision and hearing to hear and see the fucking difference half the time...
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I'll do as I always do and get the upgraded doodad when they outdate the old technology from my cold, penny pinching hands.
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Vendetta wrote:Since there's only one HD-DVD player out and no Blu-Ray players, we're currently at about five minutes before kick off.
Yes, there's a Blu-Ray player available on the U.S. market, the Samsung BD-P1000.
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