format wars over

so, who's betamaxed themselves and bought an HDDVD player?

 

I was right about Sky vs The Squariel and I was right about this... so
no.

 

I reckon it could have gone the other way if Microsoft had fitted an
HD DVD drive internally to the Xbox 360.

Because, although Sony got it right with the Blueray in the PS3,
they've been wrong[1] before (Betamax obviously, but also UMD in the
PSP)

[1] for "beaten by the market" values of "wrong".

 

*Ding*. I loathe paying the early adopters premium as well.

 

well, yes, in general I realise this.

but there must be *some* muppets who couldn't wait, and believed the
Toshiba/Microsoft hype...

 

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/95c7893c349a80d0

 

Microsoft were far more interested in perpetuating the format war while
ramping up their video download service via XBox Live.

 

There's no pig-wanking porn on blu-ray.

 

<fx:notes lack of question mark>

Uhuh...

 

I know one guy at work that has one. Gutted he is.

 

<waves smugly at PS3>

 

Nope, but now is an excellent time to buy one if you're after an
upscaling DVD player for playing existing non-HD discs. Amazon are
punting them out for 78 quid.

 

The UMD is okay. It has no substitutes I know of. Okay, there aren't
that many movies for that format, but there aren'tthat many people ready
to watch movies on the PSP display either.

 

there's something in that too, I suppose.

 

isn't that what I just said?

I didn't criticise the technology behind UMD (or Betamax for that
matter).

 

Pig-wanking would be CBeebies material compared with the three way
Brazilian vomit-scat stuff I downloaded last week.

I've never seen anyone shit in someone else's arse before. You live and
learn, eh?

 

When they release a blu-ray compatible version of Nero, I'll be looking
for niche markets.

 

yet.

 

<waves smugly at not giving a monkey's chuff about HD formats>

 

Hahahahaha! Oh, ****, that's got to be the funniest fucking thing I've
read on here this year and for longer than that, actually.

Yeah but what did you learn about shitting in peoples' arses?