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WanMan
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject: Studios, Blu-ray and Sustainability |
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Studios, Blu-ray and Sustainability is something I started to re-think this morning. While previous discussions sought to target the marketplace acceptance, I am wondering if the attitude on average of long-term sustainability as perceived by the studios is at hand.
First, let's take the studios positions from 6-12 months ago. Several titles that were expected out on Blu-ray never came, and some of these after we waited for months already. These include Sin City, DaVinci Code, etc. and today we still wait. Initially, I wondered if the studios we playing trump cards by holding off to see if marketplace acceptance waned early but even the antagonist reporting slow uptake failed to get these titles into the distribution channels.
Now, the world economy is faltering and the buying dollar is found underneath more mattresses than in retail registers. Yet, these same titles are still not being made available, or at least not being made available in the world's largest economic nation. Again, I am left to speculate a big What Gives?
And while some HD DVD Protagonists will sit there and say, "see what you get from Blu-ray region coding" my reply is not there because I'll not support arguments on dead platforms. And since it officially was news released that VHS was finally removed from the inventory channels, I think VHS bested HD DVD.
Still, I am buying into Blu-ray and the titles announced months and months ago are simply being deprived from American or worldwide release. In this nuttier than sane realization I am left to go back to my old ways of buying out of region copies and making effort into violating DMCA all for the benefit of seeing something I paid for. F-A.
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Person99
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject: Re: Studios, Blu-ray and Sustainability |
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| WanMan wrote: |
And while some HD DVD Protagonists will sit there and say, "see what you get from Blu-ray region coding" my reply is not there because I'll not support arguments on dead platforms. |
What you are saying here makes absolutely no sense and is completely illogical. While I don't agree with the position, the argument you are referring to (in syllogistic form) is:
- Consumers don't want to buy media with region coding
- Blu-ray has region coding
- Therefore consumers don't want to buy Blu-ray
HD DVD has nothing to do with the above argument--NOTHING. It is a completely different argument. The above argument can only be refuted based upon the accuracy of the first premise. I disagree with the premise (DVD would not have been successful if the premise were true). You may disagree with the premise, but it has absolutely NOTHING to do with HD DVD therefore, your HD DVD "dead platform" comment is ridiculous.
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WanMan
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Previously, someone argued with me about how one of the benefits of HD DVD over BD was lack of region coding.
Curious, how could you ever agree with one of my discussions if it were "absolutely no sense and is completely illogical". LOL
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Person99
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| WanMan wrote: | | Previously, someone argued with me about how one of the benefits of HD DVD over BD was lack of region coding. |
Again, a completely different argument. Again, in formal form, this is:
- lack of region encoding is a highly desirable and beneficial feature
- Blu-ray has region encoding
- HD DVD does not have region encoding
- Therefore HD DVD has a highly desirable and beneficial feature that blu-ray lacks.
The status of the formats or the market acceptance or whatever have nothing to do with the argument.
| WanMan wrote: | | Curious, how could you ever agree with one of my discussions if it were "absolutely no sense and is completely illogical". LOL |
Did you read what I wrote? I said, "What you are saying here makes absolutely no sense and is completely illogical."
The word "here" refers ostensibly to the quoted passage. My statement makes no claim about the logic or sensibility of any other claim you have ever made or ever will make.
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