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RE: Well, this thread kicked off with statistics about the entire installed base of game consoles

Posted by Jazz Inmate on July 2, 2007 at 21:41:03:
No, I don't think adopting or being happy with blu-ray makes me a fanboy or a cheerleader. If I thought HD-DVD was the way to go, I'd have adopted that. I'm not following HD-DVD adopters around, calling them HD-DVD fanboys or cheerleaders. So there's no good reason it's happening to me.
Technological limitations of content storage are far more important than the issue of regional encoding. First of all, we live in a world of laws. Some of those laws cover intellectual property like the software on your discs. While it may seem like a nuisance to you that you can get The Producers on blu-ray in Japan, but only on HD-DVD in the US, that is the studios' legal rights to distribute the film. Studios, like record labels, ought to be encouraged to find ways to protect their intellectual property as long as it doesn't compromise performance or quality. But beyond that, quality should be what HDTV is all about and quality equals data rates and data rates equal storage capacity. Blu-ray is simply is superior.
There is a way to make HDTV attractive to both consumers and content providers and the simple fact is that blu-ray was designed with both sides of these issues taken into account. That's not hype. That's cold, sober fact, borne out by sales figures and studio support. Even DUI sold his toshiba.
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