"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Trevor Wilson" wrote

**You didn't tell me anything I didn't know six months ago.


Really?

**Yeah, really.


No, not really - but let's not dwell....



**No point. It is a dead end product. It'll never fly. At least not past
next year, anyway. The proliferation of dual format player will finish
off any notions of such a product. BTW: I have yet to see this product
released yet. Have you seen it?


When you can (I believe) get 16 Gb of data on an SD card the size of a
postage stamp (the minimum feasible size for convenient handling, I would
suggest) I would say the days of spinning any sort of disk about to
retrieve digital data are well and truly numbered - no?

**Yep. That is exactly what I wrote in the first part of the thread. Solid
state memory is the future. The latest price I've spotted is AUS$18.00 for
2GB. Prices will plummet further.


I haven't seen any physical HD products myself - the nearest I have come
to is is the selection of several HDDVD and one BluRay clip that I ran
from a laptop recently. What I have seen does not encourage me - my plans
for an early entry to HD are now on hold for the forseeable....

**Smart move. Go look at a Playstation 3. They're a cheap and cheerful way
into HD.




Make no mistake: This battle will not be fought in the movie arena. It
will be a computer/gaming fight. Blu Ray has it won already.


Irrelevant, even if correct. We are talking *movies* (and, presumably,
music videos) here...

**Ignoring the influence of the computer/gaming industry does not make
it's impact irrelevant.


How does the gaming 'industry' influence the mainstream movie
buying/renting public?

**The industry doesn't want a multiplicity of standards.

30 quid players for any format will be stacked
next to the vegetables in most supermarkets before long - hard to see how
the relatively few owners of 400 quid games machines will have much of an
impact....

**The thin edge of the wedge.



*I'm being polite - we don't want 'Pinkyspeak' creeping back into the
proceedings, do we...??

**Nope. What happened to Stu? Is he OK?


No idea....

**'K.


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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au



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