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RE: Lets try this one more time, and please read slowly to allow everything to sink in, OK?

Posted by Jazz Inmate on December 31, 2009 at 01:32:43:
Can't believe you're still pining for hd dvd. You not only bet on the wrong horse, but you can't admit you were wrong and are grasping at straws to convince yourself you are a wise man. Pathetic.
My point is, you failed to understand why your preferred format was a failure and it doesn't instil much confidence in your predictions that 3D will gain traction. Do a simple survey among your friends and get a sense of how many of them want to buy all new video gear and wear glasses just to watch a few hyped up crappy shows. 3D is dead on arrival as a home video concept. It's too gimmicky. It's a higher quality gimmick than it was in the jaws III days, but it's a gimmick nonetheless.
As for this region coding you're hung up on, it's more a mandate of the studios. It therefore cuts across any format. If HD DVD had succeeded, it too would have necessitated a provision for region coding. Why? Because like it or not, different studios own the rights to certain titles in different regions and wish to protect their intellectual property. That's just a fact.
Face it, auph, you bet on the wrong horse and you bet against a superior format with more capacity. You stupidly advocated against higher bitrates and therefore against better quality. In your defense I think you were just one of hundreds of lemmings that forums like AVS run by biased management whipped up into an anti-BD frenzy. But the fact remains that not only did you back the wrong format; you did so in spite of inferior quality. This makes you a loser twice over. Not only did you fail to pick the winner but you failed in the endeavor for better audio and video which is what this hobby is all about.
If you want to bet that this 3D gimmick will take off, I'd be glad to oblige. We need to have some metric to agree upon so that the loser can't wiggle out of the bet. How about sales of 3D home video titles never achieve greater than 5% market share and 3D broadcasts air no more than 5% of all shows on the air. If by 2013 your 3D predictions fall shy of those numbers, you owe me $50. Deal?