Blu Ray has a bit rate of 36Mbit maximum. I think DVD is somewhere around 6? So if you were able to stream around about 10-12Mbit with improved compression you'd be able to deliver movies indistinguishable in quality for ~95% of people compared to Blu Ray.
Tease.
| kn said:
I used to think MS was a very short-sighted company that made many dumb decisions at the spur of the moment, but when I step back and look at some of their gaming and entertainment decisions, it makes me wonder if there really are a handful or more smart people that are planning long-range... |
Of course like any massive company MS makes mistakes, but of all the anti-MS propaganda out there, the notion that they are incompetent is the most ridiculous.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
sinha said:
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You should add that to the chalkboard! 
Tease.
I'm not sure what people expected M$ to do wrt to HD-DVD? M$ invested alot of money into the format, but the never "fully" commited to it, and took ownership of it, like Sony did with brd. So yes...I agree withte OP in the sense that M$ never did...but why should they have? Personally, I'd like to see M$ push deeper into SSD and Flash memory.
"...You can't kill ideas with a sword, and you can't sink belief structures with a broadside. You defeat them by making them change..."
- From By Schism Rent Asunder
I'd say they did not really care.
It's not like they had evil intentions behind it.
| non-gravity said: I'd say they did not really care. It's not like they had evil intentions behind it. |
"...You can't kill ideas with a sword, and you can't sink belief structures with a broadside. You defeat them by making them change..."
- From By Schism Rent Asunder
Digital Distribution would grow well regardless of whether HD-DVD failed or not. Microsoft holds only a small fraction of the DD pie, and the Hard-disc formats would change nothing since DD will always be the future.
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Microsoft baked HD-DVD because they thought HD-DVD would win the format war. Saying anything other than that is a freaking joke.
Yeh they spent millions of dollars just to make Blu Ray "limp".
If they were serious X360 Elite would be shipping with hd dvd drive as standart.
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heruamon said:
Exactly! |
While clearly not 'evil' backing a format you have no interest in just to try and mess up another format you have no interest in, because the second format is crucial for a competitor, is somewhat malicious. Fair play in the nasty world of corporate competition, but clearly a lot closer to playing dirty than taking the high road and backing neither format until a winner emerged.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
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