| Dryden said: Devil's advocate. Don't you think supporting Sony dominance and control over a content delivery system is a bad idea? Sony has already said they won't approve pressing of pornographic content onto BD. What happens if Sony decides to not approve a particular film genre that you enjoy? What if Sony were de facto *given* the keys to next gen content delivery and therefore decided that movies should just stay at the $34.95 price point and don't ever need to drop? Wasn't Sony's CD rootkit fiasco a big enough wake-up call? This is a dangerous road we're going down. I guess what the Sony "haters" have a problem with is not supporting the PlayStation 3, but rather blindly defending its role as a trojan horse to put BD in homes. I mean, what's in it for you that you defend Blu-Ray over HD-DVD? It's a simple question, I think. Which is easier to believe? a) Sony has the best interests of hardcore gamers and A/V-philes at heart. |
Seriously, Sony isn't the only company involved in Blu-Ray. Of course Sony will make money off Blu-Ray, but anybody who develops any storage format will make money off of it. HD-DVD will be dated much quicker than Blu-Ray, end of story. It is also significantly more scratch resistance because of the Durabis spray on-lining. Go look for video on You-Tube of people taking STEEL WOOL to their blu-rays and then popping them in the PS3 and having them work just fine with no hesitation from the player.
I could understand a lot of people's problems if Blu-Ray were an inherently bad format or something, but even the price for laser diodes which was around $100 several months ago has already dropped to $8. Sony will pass on some of the savings because they have to this generation sooner than later. The new standalone player is already $500, way quicker than DVD dropped.
Sony did actually break away and form their own format because they didn't want to support a super compressed red laser developed by the DVD forum that could only do 720p. So in that sense, they actually did have the best interests of the consumer in mind by not getting them stuck on a transitional storage medium that would be dated sooner rather than later.
Porn will be on Blu-Ray, and from reports I have heard is already on Blu-Ray. There are several independent Blu-Ray disc manufacturers out there besides Sony, so the porn thing is a non-factor.
I can think of several games last generation that used more than one disc, mostly RPG's, but there were some action games, like God of War 2, that almost needed it. They had to cut "HD mode" from the Euro version because of the seperate audio tracks.
Does anyone know how big Gears of War actually was?
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
