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Excellent - the world is right again.. I wish all problems could be fixed with a hard reset... welcome back...

ken

yeah- if only people worked that way... "CLEAR!" ZAPPP!!!

Good news - the 'Kid rides again!

best regards,
Jerry

Right ,

Ive finally removed 'Digital Bits from my 'Favourites' folder .No more hits from my pc address. Bill Hunt 's 'lets give the war to Bluray' , 'Soapbox' is the latest nonsense to come from their site .

Thank God for Hikers where debate can be more tolerant and people tend to be HD supporters rather than rabid 1 format only fanboys. Below is a link to a counter-argument to some of the points raised over at Avs ( see Post 96 in thread ). Personally , I dont entirely agree with everything he says either but it does highlight a disturbing lack of balance in the original article .

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=855652&page=4

~M~

What I find amusing is, ok, Bluray fanatics can harp on about Pirates selling better than the Matrix, but the truth is even the Pirates figures are utterly depressing when you consider what high profile catalogue titles they are for the format, riding off the theatrical release of the latest film. Hunt calls Knowles out on all of AICN's incorrect assumptions about one forum over the other, but he's also a poor journalist in his own right fo constantly ignoring the finer points of what's happening with the formats.

There is one aspect of the formats few journalists seem capable of realising and that`s that Bluray without question is getting better sales for new releases. We`ve seen it with Superman Returns, MI:3, The Departed…etc, and even this week Letters from Iwo Jima and Flags of Our Fathers did better on Bluray (though lets put this into perspective here and realise that Iwo Jima on BD sold what is estimated to be under 6500 copies to put it in the top 5, which is abysmal). Now on the other hand, HD DVD generally seems to be getting better sales for catalogue titles, which in turn might well be boosting the format`s attach rate over its competitor. So what happens? The result is both formats continue to cancel each other out for different reasons, keeping either from making significant progress. It`s all such a bloody shambles.

The whole Matrix vs Pirates thing was such an anticlimax and all most can do is tout the figures bound to one over the other, with few standing back and admitting that the sales of both are utterly disappointing. Now we`re really not going to see things kick off again until the autumn/winter with those big franchises out of the way. If one format fails to make significant long term gains over its rival after Christmas then I think they will be well and truly doomed to go down with DVD-A and SACD.


It makes me so angry at times I genuinely can`t contemplate ever humouring either the HD DVD or Bluray group with my money.

Couldn't agree more... AVS is a good forum generally, but the HD section has turned to fan-boyism endless tit-for-tat. I enjoy the more balanced discussion here.

Although having both formats is satisfying to many who 'over' indulge the sport, I agree with Daniel - if one or the other doesn't establish as the one for the masses by the end of this year, I'll be very concerned for HD disk; It seems the lessons are never learned...

In the meantime - I'm thrilled with the product (from both sides) and hope we can get to an established standard soon...

ken

yep- and how many movies have been sold on itunes so far? I forget but that numbers are larger than what seem to be on either HDDVD or BRD........ and thats a concept that is in its infancy while the basic consumer concept of HDDVD or BRD is one thats easily accepted (you buy a shiny disc that goes in your player)...

best regards,
Jerry

Disney alone sold 1.3million movies on iTunes in their first three months of offering any content on the service.

As of a couple of months ago:
Variety reported:
"
[Apple] revealed that, since it started offering movies on iTunes in September, it has sold more than 2 million
"

ken

All in glorious 640x480 resolution.

"Way of the future!"

not arguing what Id like but what I think is happening. People proclaiming BRD is the winner because Pirates outsells Matrix 40,xxx vs. 13,xxx or whatever and you have one studio selling millions of movies.... the whole HD market is probably something like 5-10% of what the compressed 640x480 itunes movie market is and thats just itunes.... but hey, if it all ended today Id still have my terrific Milky Bar XA1 and panny (slapped together old DVD) BRD players which both make a fantastic image for me. So I have no complaints.

best regards,
Jerry

Ok, I'll have to remember to thank apple again

yeah I know but if it wasnt them it would have been someone else.

best regards,
Jerry