Is porn really in the mix here at all? Who still watches porn on DVD anyways? Anyone hear about the internet?
To Dryden, of course Sony's motives are not what one could call "altruistic". They are in this to make money like anybody else. I just ask you to think about it. 1080p is the video output point that is more or less the highest that still makes a visual difference to the human eye, and 50 gigs should be able to hold off space concerns for quite a while (AT LEAST 5 years). I think they advanced technology to pretty acceptable point for current AND future concerns.
I am not trying to say Sony is in this to help out anybody but themselves, but I really think HD-DVD or an even more inferior format would ultimately short-change the consumer in the long run by giving them less for their money and forcing them to move to another storage medium sooner rather than later. One blessing in disguise from the format war was the quick drop of Blu-Ray player prices (including the PS3 soon), which has remedied a lot of people's concern about the format.
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
