Things I've Learned From The Format War

[Spankey]

1. A political agenda can/will trump objectivity.

2. Software formats have rights.

3. HT sites are no longer about promoting the quality of presentation.

4. Format wars will reveal those with political/personal agendas

5. Don't type about things you really know little about while drinking.

6. Hardware dealers have delusions of grandeur.

7. Microsoft Sucks

8. Paramount Sucks

9. Cheaper is not better.

10. Having standards is not something to be ashamed of.

[JTK]

As a Blu Ray supporter from the beginning this meant that I was:

1.) See everything on Spankey's list.


2.) Helping to build and support an "apartheid state", according to HD-DVD zealots like Plazman.

3.) I was/am a "terrorist" according to some MS employee who was using the screen name of 'nataraj' on AVS during most of the height of the aggressive HD-DVD propoganda and FUD campaign.

4.) All I have to do anywhere on the Internet is pretend I know more than I do and cite "sources" and I can be a quasi insider even if most if not all of my "predictions" never come true.

5.) If I'm on the same "side" as the powers that be on certain forums I can have literal impunity and immortality, but woe be unto anyone who strays from that path.

6.) The power of the Internet really can make a difference. It's hard to say but perhaps Betamax would have won back in the early 80's if there had been a such thing as the Internet. Who knows? Clearly the real world/world is a much smaller place paradigm that Internet affords played an incredibly huge factor in this format war both good and bad.

7.) Somehow Sony has nearly godlike powers and infinite amounts of money and resource that allowed them to pay off the media, most of the major retailers, and most of Hollywood's major studios namely Fox, Disney, MGM, and finally, Warner. Somehow this is real and happened despite the obvious free pass and double standard given to a company like Microsoft, which clearly exhibited and continues to exhibit more of those characteristics through its entire history right on through today.

The latest example being their thankfully failed hostile takeover of Yahoo. If you can't beat them, buy them out. That's not Sony, that's Microsoft folks. Get it right.

8.) Winning is losing and losing is winning. I've lost count how much of this Orwellian logic I've seen from HD-DVD zealots over the past two years.

It continues right on through today with biased commentaries like these:

http://www.contentagenda.com/blog/15...840022084.html

In the end, Toshiba didn't have to win and Sony did.

9.) There really are a lot of cheapskates and frankly, stupid people that Toshiba and HD-DVD brought into the game that would have been better off not being involved for their own sakes and all of ours.

10.) A lot of people took the phrase "format war" way too literally and seriously and permanent damage has been done.

11.) If you tell a lie often enough and loud enough you can get a lot of people to believe it. Apparently, that also extends to: If you WRITE a lie often enough and frequently enough you can get a lot of people to believe it and regurgitate it for you as well.

I may come up with more later...

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by JTK

You are a bad boy.

Blah, I wonder how long it is before that post dissapears.

[tron3]

Originally Posted by Aaron

1.) I won't be needing this anymore

I know that is Hexadecimal, but have no idea what it means. What does it represent in decimal, and how is that significant?

[Spankey]

If you don't know, don't worry about it. If you do, then you know the post was PRICELESS!

[BTBuck1]

Amen to all of that, and then some.

[phranctoast]

damn Jtk.. number 7 had me crying.

and someone message me what that means... damn curiosity is killing me!!!!

[Spankey]

someone message me what that means... damn curiosity is killing me!!!!

Google is your friend...

[IvanDrago]

Originally Posted by phranctoast

damn Jtk.. number 7 had me crying.

and someone message me what that means... damn curiosity is killing me!!!!

One clue:

AnyDVDHD

[tron3]

Originally Posted by phranctoast

damn Jtk.. number 7 had me crying.

and someone message me what that means... damn curiosity is killing me!!!!

I finally guessed what it was. Got someone to confirm in pm. I suppose you can find it on google, I didn't check.

[phranctoast]

Originally Posted by Spankey

Google is your friend...

I slept with his yahoo sister and we no longer get along