| nightsurge said: Jordahn, you're fighting a lost cause... |
We can agree on one thing that I am fighting for a lost cause... choice. You claimed that you are an HD enthusist who supported HD-DVD. If this were true, you would have known that it was the competition from Blu-ray that forced down the price of HD-DVD players and media. You would have also known that even though several early HD-DVD video transfers were slightly better than the Bu-ray version due to the codex and earlly faulty players, Blu-ray always had the better audio if not the same as HD-DVD. In fact, more than enough of HD-DVD supporters who claimed to be HD enthusists showed thier true colors when Toshiba canned HD-DVD. HD enthusiasts support HD, but the previous mentioned HD-DVD supporters immediately fell back on supporting Toshiba's super upconvert technology and digital downloads. Coincedence? Of course not. Those particular HD-DVD supports were just it, HD-DVD supports and not HD enthusiasts.
HD enthusiasts know that when it comes to movies it's not just about picture, but also about higher quality sound and extra features. This is something you cannot get from streaming for the time being. As an HD enthusiast, you should know this and recognize that Blu-ray is the only true option. But it's very typical for someone to only take just a piece of the picture and attempt to project it as the whole which is only a means of deception. Because Blu-ray is more than just picture because it's about HD quality picture sound, and extra features. By sadly, some would conveniently leave out some of those factors to make it easier to compare it to something they are in favor for while ignoring the bigger truth.
And you can use the same premature argument of "average consumers" all you want. But the real context is that HD was not originally geared towards the "average consumer" very similar at one time to VCR's and DVD players. As as the broadband infrastructure improves, so will Blu-ray offerings and prices. That's where it creeps more into the hands of "average consumers." And I'm not the type to say that Blu-ray will dominate as DVD's because I just don't see it happening. But I do see it as a choice for HD enthusiasts which is where its primary target audience given past history and current trends. I never said or implied that streaming will not have a place in the industry, but to think that streaming alone can offer and take place what a high storage optical media can do is fantasy.
I believe in choice because I look at the bigger picture, and I don't just pick and chose what's best for me for the purpose of pushing a personal agenda. It seems that taking the path of least resistance must be easy because it's much easier to serve self than reasoning. Maybe ignorance is bliss, but I wouldn't want to take that route. I would like to know what I'm missing out on so I can tell others about it to they wouldn't miss out.
Hackers are poor nerds who don't wash.
