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

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In Reply to: RE: Well, this thread kicked off with statistics about the entire installed base of game consoles posted by racerguy on July 03, 2007 at 07:12:10

>> If all you care about are the latest Hollywood blockbusters, fad films, and endless reissues of Hollywood "classics," I suppose your simplistic view of the situation would fit. <<

That isn't all I'm interested in but you need to face the fact that the major studios and their blockbusters are going to drive the direction of HDTV formats.

>> The facts are, however, that we live in a global economy, with the beginnings of global culture. <<

That's fine, but piracy is a legit problem, costing the studios and recording industry million$. We may yet find ourselves in a utopia where everyone pays an equal price for content and shares in it across the globe. But until that magical, majectical moment happens, studios should be encouraged to use any tools at their disposal to protect their intellectual property.

>> What if Sony had implemented Region Coding in SACD? It was actually discussed, and there were people pushing for this. Region Coding in SACD would mean that none of the JSACDs and European imports you currently own would be playable on your SCD-1. <<

I may have bought a player capable of playing JSACDs or I may not have adopted, but let's stop engaging in what-ifs and talk about what is. Blu-rays, like SACDs, are not subject to regional encoding in Japan. You can order The Producers blu-ray from Japan and enjoy it on your PS3.

>> I suspect that if this were the situation, SACD would have been a non-starter for you. Can you not see how this could make blu-ray a non-starter for some people, despite its technological potential? <<

I could, except that the type of regional encoding you are against has not been implemented and if the studios ever feel like implementing it, you can bet your arse there will be HD-DVD II that provides the means for regional encoding. In other words, this is a complete non-issue in terms of the observations between blu-ray and hd-dvd.

>> Superior on paper, yes. So far, the bulk of the superiority claims are coming from blu-ray fanboys and cheerleaders. <<

See, this is where I'm not understanding you. Are you saying that 24-bit 48 kHz lossless PCM sounds as good as DolbyTruHD? Because I have stood in Dolby Labs in SF and listened to the difference, and I can tell you there is a difference. Are you saying that data storage capacity and data rates don't matter? That it's just a lie propagated by blu-ray adopters?

>> I mentioned to you before that it is too early to declare blu-ray the winner. You denied doing this, but here you are doing it again. I still say it's too early to make such a call. <<

I said it was too early to say blu-ray has killed HD-DVD, but it is not too early to say that blu-ray is the superior format, both for consumers and for content providers/studios.

>>I can't BELIEVE you're using DUI as an example! LOL! <<

I can't believe he figured out the advantages of blu-ray over hd-dvd before you did!
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