arstechnica.com— The public's patience with the high definition format war is beginning to fray, as is Sony CEO Howard Stringer's. Regrets, regrets.
Nov 11, 2007View in Crawl 4
That's just a myth. Go watch a PS3 commercial. I don't even think Sony knows what the PS3 does. It's too busy breaking eggs in a big white square room (I know, that was a launch commercial...sue me)
They use(d) Beta SP in TV production class. Not Betamax. They are two different formats. Now, I'd be surprised if any schools were still using Beta SP, since it's an analog format, and much improved upon in DV50 or HD formats.
The two competing formats can still be seen today, +R and -R. They did work out things before the launch of DVD, and this is why -R and +R are mostly compatible with each other.
That's one of the contentions that kept Sony from consolidating Blu-ray and HD-DVD; they didn't want to lose the royalty fees they did with the DVD. That's the mindset they've carried on nearly every product they have ever developed. It's somewhat intelligent from a business sense (or failing that, one of greed) but doesn't really "heighten competition" so much as "piss off the consumer". There is good reason as to why the DVD was the fastest adopted entertainment medium in the industry.
The logical thing to do would be to allow people to somehow use their DVD collection on the PSP by offering some kind of ripping software that can be dumped onto a MemoryStick (also proprietary...3x the cost of an SD card of the same size)
You clearly missed my point. I was pointing out that I don't have a love/hate relationship with either format. The fact that I brought up me and my brother would be to show you I don't have either formats and I don't have either an HD-DVD ready 360 or a PS3. I have no reason to love or hate either by some sort of bias. I was just pointing out a fact in history.
Don't worry, your only being dugg down because you were pro Microsoft, digital transfer is the future and Microsoft know it. Im not saying im glad that they know what they're doing, but competition is best for us in the long run but physical media is definitely not the future.
tendonutNov 11, 2007
That's just a myth. Go watch a PS3 commercial. I don't even think Sony knows what the PS3 does. It's too busy breaking eggs in a big white square room (I know, that was a launch commercial...sue me)
ejdeNov 11, 2007
They use(d) Beta SP in TV production class. Not Betamax. They are two different formats. Now, I'd be surprised if any schools were still using Beta SP, since it's an analog format, and much improved upon in DV50 or HD formats.
spongebadNov 12, 2007
You love the feeling of mortar in your forehead.
cysseroNov 12, 2007
The two competing formats can still be seen today, +R and -R. They did work out things before the launch of DVD, and this is why -R and +R are mostly compatible with each other.
viralNov 12, 2007
That's one of the contentions that kept Sony from consolidating Blu-ray and HD-DVD; they didn't want to lose the royalty fees they did with the DVD. That's the mindset they've carried on nearly every product they have ever developed. It's somewhat intelligent from a business sense (or failing that, one of greed) but doesn't really "heighten competition" so much as "piss off the consumer". There is good reason as to why the DVD was the fastest adopted entertainment medium in the industry.
tendonutNov 12, 2007
The logical thing to do would be to allow people to somehow use their DVD collection on the PSP by offering some kind of ripping software that can be dumped onto a MemoryStick (also proprietary...3x the cost of an SD card of the same size)
tendonutNov 12, 2007
You clearly missed my point. I was pointing out that I don't have a love/hate relationship with either format. The fact that I brought up me and my brother would be to show you I don't have either formats and I don't have either an HD-DVD ready 360 or a PS3. I have no reason to love or hate either by some sort of bias. I was just pointing out a fact in history.
sputty01Nov 13, 2007
Don't worry, your only being dugg down because you were pro Microsoft, digital transfer is the future and Microsoft know it. Im not saying im glad that they know what they're doing, but competition is best for us in the long run but physical media is definitely not the future.
spongebadNov 22, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile_Multilayer_Disc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile_Multilayer_ ...</a>This is the format I was talking about. It uses red lasers, has similar capacity to HD-DVD, and would be dirt cheap to produce. Still has no content, so is so irrelevant in the HD format war that you didn't even know about it, proving my original point.Does it hurt when you wear your ass as a hat like that?