Video Asylum

Posted by Jazz Inmate (R) on May 22, 2008 at 09:44:05

In Reply to: RE: Of course it isn't; that's because I've been truthful and you haven't. posted by Audiophilander on May 22, 2008 at 01:45:48

>> All I did was post a current article with a rather unsettling poll that I thought folks might find interesting and newsworthy. <<

No, that isn't all you did. You actively ignore any positive news or information about Blu-ray, ridiculed for months those of us who didn't ignore such info. Then, even after the format war is over, you have continued to focus on any negative information about blu-ray you could sniff out and pine about HD DVD doing better if it had won. You also continue to lie about "having no dog in the fight" even though the fight's over, you're embracing the carcass of your dog that is dead.

>> Then, as expected, you threw a hissy fit. <<

No, I just pointed out why the poll appears to be irrelevant and inaccurate. Several other denizens did, too. It's no big mystery that supplanting DVD and doing battle with downloadable or streaming technologies is going to be a major challenge for Blu-ray...that was largely the point in going forward with one format for HD rather than two. Not only didn't you understand the point at that time, now you're acting like it's a new observation or that it's a negative against Blu-ray. In both cases, you're wrong.

>> All I did was correct your misrepresentation; you can quit whining anytime. <<

No that's not all you did. You said HD DVD would have a better chance of supplanting DVD. But how is that logical when HD DVD couldn't even supplant Blu-ray, despite a head start in HD DVD's introduction? You simply fail to grasp any of the technical or market factors in this discussion.

>> Quite a few folks were amused because they saw your antics in a similar light. <<

Ole bore the brunt of you and these other idiotic "folks". He essentially posted Nielson ratings, other news items and you consistently levied personal attacks against him. Your attacks against me like the one in your previous post are clearly spilling over from the other forum, so I understood it has nothing to do with video (especially since you're too stupid to effectively analyze the issues). But Ole really didn't deserve to be bashed in the manner you and your "folks" bashed him.

>> BTW, what was lacking in sophistication was more than made up for in irony, and if you can't stand the pepper <<

You do realize that I never voted for bush/cheney, don't you?

>> FTR, I'm not disappointed in the slightest about choosing HD-DVD. <<

That's very clear. No need to state the obvious, auph. In fact you're proud of your failure to make the right decision.

>> FYI, I have two HD-DVD players & lots of great titles (I'm picking up more all the time as they're discounted), received a $50 bonus card from Best Buy and 5 free HD-DVDs from the second promotion to go along with those obtained during the first player's promotion! <<

It's your money; you can throw it away however you want.

>> I also purchased a Panasonic Blu-ray player earlier this year (with 2 bonus discs of our choice) and the best standard DVD player on the market is winging it's way here as I type this. <<

I bet you can find a good S-VHS machine and laserdisc player for cheap too! Hurry up. Ebay is calling your name. Get those titles cheap, auph!

>> Life is good! :o) <<

Yeah, but wasting your money is bad. you think you need to collect dead formats. There's a word for that: obsessive compulsive. It's nothing to be proud of.

>> Like I said there's a lot of industry analysis going on and some insiders are beginning to have second thoughts about Blu-ray as folks seem content with the more reasonably priced standard DVD; that's why I posted my observations and the link to the article, but I don't expect you to take my word for it. Jazz, just a hint: Try learning a few new gymnastics; the ones you're using here are getting predictable. <<

Auph, few new technologies successfully supplant established formats. It doesn't require much analysis to understand that. Thankfully, the industry is moving forward with one clear winner in the HD format war. The only ones who think the losing format should have won are embittered HD DVD adopters like you. But even they seem to understand that HD DVD is now dead and it's not worth blowing more money on the format. You apparently are slow to realize these things.
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