Enderle - "Blu-ray Is Sony's Iraq" - WTH!? - Blu-ray Forum

tommyD · 01-04-2008, 09:31 PM

This dude may be right - look at how much news there is about Iraq right now... None.
Things are straightening up right now, and from my military connections, it seems like it is going to end up in victory.
The point the author makes here asking whether Bush would do it again if he knew the costs of unpopularity, the rhetotical anwser he's begging is "no", but the real answer is "yes", because the decision was made by the LEADER Pres Bush, not by some pollster. Like it or not, he and his administration were convinced of the necessity to go to war, and he knew it would be a long struggle. And he's been dumped on continuously, true, but he's borne it all along because the decision was made on prinicple.
So if the analogy is carried to Sony & the BDA, sure it was more expensive to develop Blu Ray as a revolutionary advance from DVD instead of just evolving forward like HD DVD. I'd compare this to the evolution of Laser Disc from CD versus the DVD revolution. Sony & partners agreed in principle it was better to go forward with new technologies for HDM rather than taking the easy route, and it has served all you adopters well with great PQ and uncompressed audio, and it is not appreciably more expensive than the evolutionary HD DVD format.
So keep going Sony, I think that victory is near. What if the US & coalition gives up on Iraq - then our military and will power will never be taken seriously again - and who exactly is that good for? The same sort of people who will be burning you Blu Rays (and all your electronics) like books were burned in the 1930s-40s. Likewise if Sony folded up shop after having BD come under scrutiny, who would take any new formats from Sony seriously (Betamax, MiniDisc, UMD)? No, it is time to dig in and win out!!!

And thanks & God Bless all those brave enough to stand up to the evil and danger in our time!!!

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01-04-2008, 09:31 PM	#22
tommyD Member Member since:Dec 2007	This dude may be right - look at how much news there is about Iraq right now... None. Things are straightening up right now, and from my military connections, it seems like it is going to end up in victory. The point the author makes here asking whether Bush would do it again if he knew the costs of unpopularity, the rhetotical anwser he's begging is "no", but the real answer is "yes", because the decision was made by the LEADER Pres Bush, not by some pollster. Like it or not, he and his administration were convinced of the necessity to go to war, and he knew it would be a long struggle. And he's been dumped on continuously, true, but he's borne it all along because the decision was made on prinicple. So if the analogy is carried to Sony & the BDA, sure it was more expensive to develop Blu Ray as a revolutionary advance from DVD instead of just evolving forward like HD DVD. I'd compare this to the evolution of Laser Disc from CD versus the DVD revolution. Sony & partners agreed in principle it was better to go forward with new technologies for HDM rather than taking the easy route, and it has served all you adopters well with great PQ and uncompressed audio, and it is not appreciably more expensive than the evolutionary HD DVD format. So keep going Sony, I think that victory is near. What if the US & coalition gives up on Iraq - then our military and will power will never be taken seriously again - and who exactly is that good for? The same sort of people who will be burning you Blu Rays (and all your electronics) like books were burned in the 1930s-40s. Likewise if Sony folded up shop after having BD come under scrutiny, who would take any new formats from Sony seriously (Betamax, MiniDisc, UMD)? No, it is time to dig in and win out!!! And thanks & God Bless all those brave enough to stand up to the evil and danger in our time!!!

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