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Your are talented at flinging personal insults, but useless when it comes to backing up your opinions...

Posted by Audiophilander (A) on January 20, 2008 at 00:05:17

In Reply to: RE: "Where's your BD collection?" - I've got one Blu-ray disc on the way. posted by Jazz Inmate on January 19, 2008 at 13:53:11:

... with empirical evidence.

>>> "First of all, you are a fanboy of HD DVD and you have no expertise." <<<

If you're serious, that would make you a liar on two counts, but I've never professed the kind of 'expertise' that you expect folks to take for granted when you go into cheer-leader mode.

>>> "Secondly, the Warner CEO is Meyer. We're talking about the president of the Home Video Division of Warner." <<<

Yes, but what has that to do with a corporate CEO having or not having a marketing agenda that takes consumer good will for granted?

>>> "Thirdly, that division has been releasing both HD DVD and BD formats for many months." <<<

True, but the timing of the decision to withdraw from that commitment, whether intentional or otherwise, could not have been designed more insidiously to hurt the maximum number of consumers. Many thousands of players had been sold during the holidays with a promise of many more new HD titles in the new year. The poor timing and apparent callousness of the decision forges trust issues that won't be easily forgiven or forgotten.

>>> "There has been much thought and deliberation prior to their decision..." <<<

And you know this how?

>>> "--as there was with my decision." <<<

BWAHAHAHAHA! Almost spewed my single malt, which would've been sacrilege on a scale that no gentleman of taste would forgive!

>>> "Upconversion is nice, but it's basically like line doubling." <<<

Call it what you will, but some upconverted DVD fare looks pretty darn good on my 10' screen, and while high resolution (1080I & 1080p) from an HD format offers an obvious improvement, some films upconvert so nicely that I suspect the average viewer would't see much value-added benefit to either HD or BD in a subjective A/B comparison.

>>> "That's a crock of shit. I can point you to dozens of articles that cite the dueling formats as the reason to stay on the sidelines. If the industry can unite behind one format, it will give millions of consumers the confidence to take the plunge." <<<

One can cite dozens of articles on any subject one chooses to bolster a given POV (many merely repeat the same interviews and opinions over and over), but providing the TRUTH, as opposed to conjecture reinforced by editorial opinion, is rare indeed!

To pull off such a feat you'd have to put down those blue pompoms & the honorary blue sequenced baton and avoid regurgitating the same ridiculous talking points over and over again. IOW, as Senor Wences would say: "You have to learn to think outside the box, Pedro!" ;0)

Cheers,
AuPh

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