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Warner speaks out about Blu-ray deal
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article published on 11 January, 2008
When Warner announced last week that it was moving exclusively to Blu-ray, many questions remained as to why the move happened, whether money was involved, and why the studio would voluntarily shun the growing HD DVD market.
Speaking to Reuters, the studio made it clear that the move was not fueled by a money exchange with Sony, but instead that the decision was based on on fears of a ... [ read the full article ]
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vinny13
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12. January 2008 @ 19:09 |
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The consumer made their choice, right? They chose Blu-Ray... Right? It's been outselling HD-DVD for the past year. It's not like we were forced to. They could have chosen HD-DVD but Blu-Ray actually advertises... I haven't seen an HD-DVD add anywhere accept in a movie theatre commercial with Toshiba advertising a laptop with a HD-DVD player :P
I really think if HD-DVD advertized its cheaper players and whatever they probably could have "won", but they didn't, which is really odd :S
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13. January 2008 @ 05:40 |
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Originally posted by vinny13:
I've just bought my first external and it's running great. I myself have never had any problems but if you just look around you see people who have lasted 3 months, some just over a year, some haven't experienced yet. Unlike HDDs, discs will last longer depending on how you take care of them, or at least more reliable in some people's cases.
I'll give you that some are going to be more reliable than others, but I don't see drives dying as a possible widespread problem. I'd also say that hdd, just like discs, will probably last longer if you take better care of them.
Then again, maybe I'm just biased by the anecdote that is my current hard drive. Treated like trash for at least 3 of its 6+ years, no problems yet. -knocks on wood-
Originally posted by vinny13:
I really think if HD-DVD advertized its cheaper players and whatever they probably could have "won", but they didn't, which is really odd :S
That's probably very true.
Sony's the one with all the money for ridiculous ad campaigns, though. =P
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jove
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13. January 2008 @ 05:48 |
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Originally posted by pomelo:
I think all companies should release on both formats and let the customer make their own choice on with one to buy.
no disrespect but that sounds incredibly naive, since the begining of time its never been like that. look up on wikipedia about the great american streetcar scandal. its not like people actually have a choice. its all money. otherwise there would be no corruption and bush wouldnt have won his first elections. many other examples could be used...
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13. January 2008 @ 22:04 |
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Im just waiting for a magical hardware drm by sony. its coming mark my words. BD+ + HDCP = complete screw the consumer salution.
ah just glad its almost over. cant wait to start cracking more bd+ DRM. as for hardware DRM its called a decipher chip its a EPRoM with hardware codes. it deciphers codes on the fly from your HDCPed TV to your drm crippled blu-ray box. an example would be for instance lets say the HDCP device im playing wants to decrypte those nasty BD+ codes that slysoft got rid of oops no go HDCP box cant decipher the codes cause theres nothing there. so i put in my magical BD+ codes into whats say a EEPRoM. bing bing bing it found the codes and now it plays. and if someone accomlishes on the fly code deciphering it dosent mater how many codes there are. or the bd+ disc spins backwords *cough* *cough* Gamecube.
anyone remember how to flash nintendo cartdriges same concept deferent erea
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sciascia
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13. January 2008 @ 22:20 |
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I saw a report on the ten o'clock news stating that Universal and Paramount are both switching to Blu-Ray exclusively. I don't know if they are just going off of rumors or if AfterDawn just hasn't updated us yet. The station's call letters are WPXI.
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hughjars
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14. January 2008 @ 09:49 |
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Originally posted by sciascia:
I saw a report on the ten o'clock news stating that Universal and Paramount are both switching to Blu-Ray exclusively.
- Wrong.
Universal & Paramount are both staying HD DVD.
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sciascia
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14. January 2008 @ 13:02 |
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Quote:
Originally posted by sciascia:
I saw a report on the ten o'clock news stating that Universal and Paramount are both switching to Blu-Ray exclusively.
- Wrong.
Universal & Paramount are both staying HD DVD.
I never said I agree with the report, just that they reported it. They were probably going off of rumors from last week.
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hughjars
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14. January 2008 @ 13:36 |
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sciascia don't take it personally, I wasn't making a negative comment aimed at you or anything; I was merely saying those reports are wrong.
In fact quite the opposite is true.
Today we have the begining of the fightback with Toshiba, Universal & Paramount launching reduced prices on their movies and hardware.
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vinny13
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14. January 2008 @ 17:17 |
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Lol I went to Wal-Mart and asked why they had gotten cheaper just for fun and they're like,"It's a sell-out!" :P
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25. January 2008 @ 17:20 |
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See i have said this once before and i will say it again. It all boils down to cost effectiveness. People are not going to put money in something that has no benefit for them and they do not see a return in for their investments.
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jove
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26. January 2008 @ 06:09 |
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go on truth teller, tell us what really happened... oh and yeah how many billions is the world wide home entertainment market??? 150 million enough to make a difference? warner got payed? please tell us of all those conspiracy theories you know so much about... evil sony, drm! this and some more of that!
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7. June 2009 @ 14:32 |
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 7. June 2009 @ 14:33
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7. June 2009 @ 19:06 |
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when someone digs up an ancient article to place spam in,you know your trying to hard.
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