Told you so:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/101687/c...-total-hd.html


(Although delayed until 2008, I gather...??)

"Keith G" wrote in message
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Told you so:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/101687/c...-total-hd.html


(Although delayed until 2008, I gather...??)

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

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.



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

Told you so:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/101687/c...-total-hd.html


(Although delayed until 2008, I gather...??)

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


Really? Strange you didn't grab the opportunity to *put me right* when I
pooted the possibility of a 'dual format' ('flipper'?) disk at least a
couple of times in the exchange a few weeks back..??*

(You read the thread, you find the instances where I mentioned it.)



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...


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

"Keith G" wrote in message
...

"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message
.. .

"Keith G" wrote in message
...

Told you so:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/101687/c...-total-hd.html


(Although delayed until 2008, I gather...??)

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


Really?

**Yeah, really.

Strange you didn't grab the opportunity to *put me right* when I
pooted the possibility of a 'dual format' ('flipper'?) disk at least a
couple of times in the exchange a few weeks back..??*

**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?


(You read the thread, you find the instances where I mentioned it.)



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.



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

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


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On 2 Jul, 19:49, "Trevor Wilson"
wrote:
"Keith G" wrote in message

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"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote in message
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Told you so:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/101687/c...-trumpets-supp....

(Although delayed until 2008, I gather...??)

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

Really?

**Yeah, really.

Strange you didn't grab the opportunity to *put me right* when I

pooted the possibility of a 'dual format' ('flipper'?) disk at least a
couple of times in the exchange a few weeks back..??*

**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?

Samsung are still promising one but it's yet to see the light of
day.....
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/o...ays-252038.php


(You read the thread, you find the instances where I mentioned it.)

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.

Agreed.
Personally I would rather pay £400 for a Blu-Ray player that doubles
up as a gaming console, than £400 for just a player. Having said that
i'd rather pay £200 for a universal player, so I think i'll leave it a
couple of years


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

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

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On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:28:49 -0700, Dr Hfuhruhurr
wrote:

Agreed.
Personally I would rather pay £400 for a Blu-Ray player that doubles
up as a gaming console, than £400 for just a player. Having said that
i'd rather pay £200 for a universal player, so I think i'll leave it a
couple of years

Leave it three years and they'll be £20 in Sainsbury's. It was
suddenly revealed to me a couple of years back that being an early
adopter was a mug's game; it was an Arcam DAB tuner that was the cause
of my Damascene moment.

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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?

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....



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? 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....


*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....

"Keith G" wrote in message
...

"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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