Nov 2006 Patchter: Nintendo is going to "look" like the clear winner in 07.

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naznatips said:

Desroko said:

RolStoppable said:

Desroko said:

The comparison loses impact when the two examples aren't really similar. Saying something like "Andy Roddick has a better chance of beating Roger Federer in straight sets" or "Jamaica will sooner win a gold medal in bob-sledding" is better. Both are obviously not going to happen, but they're still more likely that what leo's predicting. I can't speak for the Austrian team, but the Texans example doesn't pack a lot of punch because it's not overwhelmingly, 99.99~% improbable, just improbable.

Okay, I understand.

At first I just wanted to post the example of the austrian football (called soccer in america) team but then I thought some people might not be familiar with the strength of this team, so I posted an american football example as well.

Does it really require as much impact as in your examples to make a little bit fun of leo-j's predictions?

 

I guess not. I'm just worried that since it's so easy in any case, we'll become lazy in our mocking if we're not constantly trying to push the envelope. Actually, I'm just an NFL geek who's being picky.

Speaking of being NFL geeks I just got home from the Colts game. They just dominated the Bucs.

On topic, in a rare instance Soriku is correct. Many surveys have been done and they show < 50% of HDTV owners even know what HD is. I'm sure half of the remaining group only have a vague idea of it being "better." It's pretty ridiculous to think that anything is overtaking DVD as primary format before 2010 at the earliest. Honestly I just don't think it's going to happen at all with HD-DVD or Blu Ray. Both will die to a stronger format that actually makes a difference in your movie watching experience.

 unless blu ray pulls out a strong lead after this holiday tehn it will make less and less of a difference.  also, hd tv is the last big upgrade in visual technology in the near future.  the human eye just flat out cant notice much more.