Am I the only one worried that Sony could do a huge mistake with the Arc ?

[joeorc]

Tanstalas said:

Porcupine_I said:

Tanstalas said:

Porcupine_I said:

Tanstalas said:

dirkd2323 said:
Dude, relax , just wait and see how the darn thing works before you blow a gasket, it may all be for nothing, Sony is not that dumb to spend all this money on technology to bring out a device that no one wants and does not work well, not going to happen , RELAX

BETAMAX!!!

 

Oh wait, did you not hear me?

 

BETAMAX!!!

Betamax worked excellent, though

I won't argue that, but what was said was: Sony is not that dumb to spend all this money on technology to bring out a device that no one wants and does not work well

And noone wanted it, as VHS was "better" for the consumer

And Excellent depends on who you asked, VHS did everything better than Betamax did, the only real difference was the form factor of the cassettes :)

you still comparing apples to oranges

I don't see how?

It was like Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD as well, that one really could have went either way as well, just Sony got a couple more studios than Toshiba, then buh bye.

BD was the better one imo, but a lot of people liked HD-DVD - as it was cheaper

umm, it was not just a couple more it was all but one, and even then the one's they did have supported the move to the  Blu-Ray format since 2002, there was a reason why they did it also. before HD DVD was even ready, before this whole thing even got started between Blu-ray and HD DVD .

Infact 3 year's prior, Blu-Ray as a technology was already on the market for the Consumer to purchase  in asia, that was 3 year's before HD DVD even had a consumer Option. Blu-Ray was already a proven Technology.

and It was not "JUST a Sony format" from it's inception, many other companies that also make Optical drives all back in 2002 that Blu-Ray was the Direction they wanted to go. It was'nt until the Question of using (JAVA or IHD) as the control software for new CE topset boxes came into the picture that when all this started between The HD DVD format or The Blu-Ray format junk got started.