http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 5:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/23/hdmi-the-manchurian-.html

and we thought sony's xcp rootkit phone home DRM was bad!


The BPI Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI.

The RIAA Soundexchange Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, EMI.

The MPAA Are: SONY, UNIVERSAL, WARNER GROUP, DISNEY, PARAMOUNT, FOX.]]>Jan 28th 2008 7:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
Looking at your profile there, you have posted that exact same comment dozens of times on Engadget. We got it the first time, this place isn't a soap box.

http://www.blogsmith.com/profile/937447/]]>Jan 28th 2008 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
the internet is a soapbox- deal with it.

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Sorry, could you bring me up to date on the different types of Soapboxes there are? I honestly wasn't aware there was more than one.

Perhaps the original poster could have modified his comment each time he posted it so that each was a unique snowflake immune to the criticisms of the easily irritable or the close minded.]]>Jan 28th 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
stop what exactly, posting the truth of the pro DRM advocates in the MPAA or the fact the blu-ray only DRM BD+ is bad for the consumer as it gives the studios the right to do anything they wish to our hardware, or ict has been delayed at the will of sony m$ to allow all old, none future proof incompatible stock to be sold to consumers before they flick the switch?

i didn't mention the fact that the sony and fox lobby introduced a bill into the "spy act" that allows them to install any code they wish into our hardware without fear of litigation and we are not allowed to debug and notify the world about dubious, malicious, code anymore.

google "spy act only protects drm" and read the content]]>Jan 28th 2008 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
they could but if it damaged your hardware they were liable since sony and fox lobby introduced the sections into the spy act they can now use any DRM that we are not allowed to debug and they are immune from prosecution. BD+ is the blu-ray only extra level of DRM that uses the java platform to run the code it was finalised for use in september last year.

http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/03/foxs-new-blu-ray-titles-with-bd-wont-playing-in-all-players/
FTA: Fox's new Blu-ray titles with BD+ won't play in all players]]>Jan 29th 2008 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 5:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
That said, the only thing worse than buying blue would be to buy red.]]>Jan 28th 2008 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
but really, apart from the PS3, the whole multiple profile thing is a killer.]]>Jan 28th 2008 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
Anyone who purchased a PS3 automatically became entrenched on the side of Blu Ray.

The PS3 is where the Blu Ray -HDDVD war was won. The problem was, Microsoft didn't install an HDDVD drive in the XBOX360 Premium or Elite when they did their revision. By leaving the HDDVD drive an expensive add-on, they basically killed HDDVD. Sony's gamble paid off.]]>Jan 28th 2008 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
HD DVD standard on Xbox 360 - win format war, lose console war (due to high cost)
HD DVD not standard on Xbox 360 - lose format war, win console war (excluding Wii, Microsoft had been top for well over a year)]]>Jan 28th 2008 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 6:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
You'll convert once you actually have your HDTV. Don't forget that Netflix rents Blu-Ray discs (and HD-DVD's for that matter, for now) if you see no sense in owning them.
]]>Jan 28th 2008 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/People who got a HD tv at 38"+ will prefer to get the full expirence and that is where Blu-Ray comes in.

We will see a winner in 2008...]]>Jan 28th 2008 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/the observable difference between SD 480p and HD 720p is a lot
the observable difference between 720p and 1080p on a screen below 46" is not that great

Just felt the need to correct some people

Does HD Video a lot in his job
]]>Jan 28th 2008 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
I honestly don't think that luck will have anything much to do with it. Blu-ray will be preferred by the HD aficionados in much the same way that CDs are preferred by audiophiles. However, for me I honestly can't tell the difference between 720p and 1080p enough that having to wait for delivery of a disc is something I'm prepared to put up with - I just want to select a movie and watch it. In this respect Blu-ray is a non-starter and Netflix (should it be available) isn't a desirable option. On-Demand is the future and, almost, the present too.

While the HD library online isn't big at the moment I wouldn't bet against it being comprehensive by the end of the year. Since I don't yet own an HD television anyway this isn't much of a problem to begin with.]]>Jan 29th 2008 2:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
BD offers Uncompressed audio!!!/commentary/special features.... Screw compression... If you have a Expensive audio system why get compressed digital downloads? Not untill downloading 50 gigs takes less than 5 min. Then maybe everyone will go ok...digital downloads is the future.

:D]]>Jan 29th 2008 6:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/when death approached, unlocked her silent throat.
Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore,
thus sang her first and last, and sang no more:
"Farewell, all joys! O death, come close mine eyes!
"More Blu-Ray than HD-DVD now live, more fools than wise."]]>Jan 28th 2008 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
I never heard the word embiggins until I started reading Engadget.]]>Jan 28th 2008 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
The link that you posted was from May of '06 and was a FUD freakout on HDMI, which was claimed at the time to be 'very limited installed base'. At that point, it was. If you'll read further on into the article you posted (Difficult or even painful for one such as you to comprehend anything further than a headline, I know...) you'll see that your own rhetoric even mentioned Sony AND Microsoft by name, backing the HDMI initiative.

I don't know about you, but I make a very middle-class wage, have next to no credit card debt and I have 7 HDMI devices in my abode so far. Including my LCD & Denon receiver.

Please, pull the tinfoil hat back down over your eyes and go spout your gibberish to the army of mice who are the only ones who believe in you.]]>Jan 28th 2008 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/Jan 28th 2008 7:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/28/gartner-blu-ray-to-win-in-2008-hd-dvd-price-cuts-are-useless/
I'll buy Blu-ray when it drops to $150.00

Market forces at work! Well, barely. Too bad the market has less to do with this than the recording industry. Too bad those studios decided Blu-ray because it has more restrictive DRM (region locked)

Proprietary Sony formats are always losers, whether or not they succeed in the market place, and those who sell out to Sony do so at the peril of their wallets. Will this be different? No way to tell. . ]]>Jan 28th 2008 7:44AM