No they expected that most buyers wanted a games machine, not a HD movie player.There is not a single game that requires me to buy the HDDVD add-on.If I so CHOOSE however, I can purchase the add-on to play HD-DVD movies. I choose not to.
Well, let's see. I add it up to this personal "Sony" history:1. 1984, I had to buy a Sony Trinitron TV, according to the guy in the store, to watch the BBC channels in Belgium. No such luck, it crapped out in PAL and also SECAM modes, and failed to work on NTSC when I got it back to the states. It ended up in the trash and I swore I'd never buy another Sony TV.2. Forget what year, I bought a damn Betamax machine. That same year is when they went defunct, and video stores had SCORES of betamax tapes that no one wanted to see.3. SONY's walkman cassette players were junk, but I made a fortune in fixing those things. Glad I never owned one. I stuck with a generic portable tape player; they joked at me because they all had Sony walkmen, but they laughed out their assh**es when I fixed them for $50 a pop.4. Never bought a PSIII but son got a Wii instead. Still loving it....
Isn't that the entire point though? Aren't all of these formats technically HD DVDs, i.e. high definition digital video disks? The name is self-explanatory, as opposed to Blu-Ray, which is gibberish (since the consumer generally doesn't care about the color of the laser, even though the shorter wavelength is what allows the larger storage capacity).
I see you're on the upswing to attack those of us that hate Sony, but we hate them for all the right reasons. You were probably either a zygote, or swimming around in daddy's ball-sack when some of us put up with the s**t that Sony dealt us in the past:Sony "Trinitron" TV piece of crap I bought over in Belgium early 80's - claimed their tv could pick up the BBC signals when it couldn't. It was also supposed to be combo PAL/SECAM/NTSC friendly. It wasn't. When I took it back to the US, it didn't even recognize the NTSC signal. STRIKE ONEWho could ever forget the Sony Betamax and Betacam s**t products? Remember, if you can, when Sony ditched those who bought the betamax players, and when video stores all across the world ended up with thousands of suddenly unwanted betamax videos? STRIKE TWOAnd, what about Sony when those sons of bitches tried installing that insidious s**t in our computers that wouldn't allow us to burn copies of SONY products, AND also severely hampered other DVD burning functions as well? STRIKE THREEAnd now we're hearing that Blu-Ray is crap-junk, the CD's actually ROT after a while, and, the first gen machines came with no means of attaching them to network, meaning that there were no possible means of any upgrades to install certain needed CODEC's for the Blu-Ray industry to keep up? That means that these first-gen Blu-Ray players cannot play certain "new" release DVD's....STRIKE FOURI could go on about all the s**t about Sony's new Playstation 3, but that is glaringly obvious that those who continue to swing that virtual sack of potatoes around, and smack themselves repeatedly in the head by remaining to be dumb enough to stick with SONY products, keep on sticking with them, and actually defending the Blu-Ray movement, when it's obvious that HD-DVD rules, and besides the point that HD-DVD is more affordable and less proprietary?Come on!
rowlodgeJan 8, 2008
i have two no three sony tv's, all work and a mac, who cares ?
pixelmagicJan 8, 2008
Ron Paul
gfnwJan 9, 2008
No they expected that most buyers wanted a games machine, not a HD movie player.There is not a single game that requires me to buy the HDDVD add-on.If I so CHOOSE however, I can purchase the add-on to play HD-DVD movies. I choose not to.
bassizzztJan 9, 2008
Well, let's see. I add it up to this personal "Sony" history:1. 1984, I had to buy a Sony Trinitron TV, according to the guy in the store, to watch the BBC channels in Belgium. No such luck, it crapped out in PAL and also SECAM modes, and failed to work on NTSC when I got it back to the states. It ended up in the trash and I swore I'd never buy another Sony TV.2. Forget what year, I bought a damn Betamax machine. That same year is when they went defunct, and video stores had SCORES of betamax tapes that no one wanted to see.3. SONY's walkman cassette players were junk, but I made a fortune in fixing those things. Glad I never owned one. I stuck with a generic portable tape player; they joked at me because they all had Sony walkmen, but they laughed out their assh**es when I fixed them for $50 a pop.4. Never bought a PSIII but son got a Wii instead. Still loving it....
gabberwokJan 13, 2008
Isn't that the entire point though? Aren't all of these formats technically HD DVDs, i.e. high definition digital video disks? The name is self-explanatory, as opposed to Blu-Ray, which is gibberish (since the consumer generally doesn't care about the color of the laser, even though the shorter wavelength is what allows the larger storage capacity).
bassizzztJan 18, 2008
I see you're on the upswing to attack those of us that hate Sony, but we hate them for all the right reasons. You were probably either a zygote, or swimming around in daddy's ball-sack when some of us put up with the s**t that Sony dealt us in the past:Sony "Trinitron" TV piece of crap I bought over in Belgium early 80's - claimed their tv could pick up the BBC signals when it couldn't. It was also supposed to be combo PAL/SECAM/NTSC friendly. It wasn't. When I took it back to the US, it didn't even recognize the NTSC signal. STRIKE ONEWho could ever forget the Sony Betamax and Betacam s**t products? Remember, if you can, when Sony ditched those who bought the betamax players, and when video stores all across the world ended up with thousands of suddenly unwanted betamax videos? STRIKE TWOAnd, what about Sony when those sons of bitches tried installing that insidious s**t in our computers that wouldn't allow us to burn copies of SONY products, AND also severely hampered other DVD burning functions as well? STRIKE THREEAnd now we're hearing that Blu-Ray is crap-junk, the CD's actually ROT after a while, and, the first gen machines came with no means of attaching them to network, meaning that there were no possible means of any upgrades to install certain needed CODEC's for the Blu-Ray industry to keep up? That means that these first-gen Blu-Ray players cannot play certain "new" release DVD's....STRIKE FOURI could go on about all the s**t about Sony's new Playstation 3, but that is glaringly obvious that those who continue to swing that virtual sack of potatoes around, and smack themselves repeatedly in the head by remaining to be dumb enough to stick with SONY products, keep on sticking with them, and actually defending the Blu-Ray movement, when it's obvious that HD-DVD rules, and besides the point that HD-DVD is more affordable and less proprietary?Come on!