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RE: Where do you come up with these strange ideas?

Posted by Jazz Inmate on December 5, 2007 at 21:36:53:
>> A reasonable person doesn't become a fanatical format cheerleader. <<
A reasonable person doesn't pretend that capacity is an irrelevant consideration in HD media. Your position is unreasonable and in arguing against my position, you have become a fanatic.
>> A reasonable person doesn't try to claim that their choice of consumer technology gives them some sort of moral superiority. <<
It has nothing to do with morality. Where do you come up with this shit? It has to do with logic. My position is grounded in logic. Yours isn't.
>> A reasonable person actually tries things out, and makes informed judgments, instead of declaring mindless loyalty and attacking anyone who doesn't mindlessly agree. <<
Thanks. You have just made my point and argued against your position. Choosing the format with greater capacity is the informed decision. So is doing research and paying attention to industry insiders like Michael Bay who has this to say: "I see every frame of my films over a hundred times before it is ever released. I know the lighting conditions I shot it and the result on the DI. I know the range. I know what the final product should look like - Blu Ray suits my films better."
>> The thing that makes you so utterly ridiculous, such an absolute laughingstock, is that you are arguing from a position of total ignorance with people who actually own and use both formats. <<
I hope you're capable of self-analysis after reading comments by Bay and others and that you can properly identify yourself as ridiculous and a laughinstock. Or do you think Jack G and avsforum brainwash victims are more knowledgeable than industry insiders who actually deal with film on a daily basis?
>> When your "facts" are dismissed, you start weaving fantasies. <<
That sounds cute, racer, but the backbone of my position this entire time has been that BD provides 20 gigs more capacity than HD DVD, and that is a fact, and it cannot be dismissed. Are you really incapable of getting your head around that concept? It sure seems like you can't.
>> You remind me very much of a notorious DVD-Audio bigot who declared SACD to be technologically inferior, and an evil corporate plot, and spent several years attacking it and anyone he perceived to be an SACD supporter, despite having absolutely no meaningful personal experience with SACD. <<
I adopted SACD early and never adopted DVD-A, so if I remind you of a DVD-A bigot, you're confused. The fact is that YOU adopted DVD-A.
>> He always had a stock set of "facts" at hand, and when those didn't work, he invented fables and wove conspiracy theories too. The parallels are uncanny. <<
If you want to be an idiot and pretend I don't know what I'm talking about, that's your prerogative. But you might want to listen to insiders like Michael Bay: "What you don't understand is corporate politics. Microsoft wants both formats to fail so they can be heroes and make the world move to digital downloads. That is the dirty secret no one is talking about. That is why Microsoft is handing out $100 million dollar checks to studios just embrace the HD DVD and not the leading, and superior Blu Ray. They want confusion in the market until they perfect the digital downloads. Time will tell and you will see the truth."
Just go ahead and cover your ears while shouting "la la la la", racer. That's all you're really good for anymore.

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