Because we’re maybe nine months away.........

Are you intentionally trying to miss the point?

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Allan, stop. Please.

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I swore I just read that DVD just now surpassed VHS sales, maybe I
misread that. Regardless, I have nothing against HD home video but
I am being honest in what I feel will happen with it. Yes I like the best
picture and sound, but at what point does one get to until he/she finally
decides that its enough.

Honestly, my DVD collection is over 500 plus titles. I'm not about
to throw away that just because not one but two bigger formats are
about to hit the market - and honestly its unknown between the two
which will survive if any. Look at the whole SACD vs DVD-Audio
"war" that happened.

If I ever do jump onto the HD home video bandwagon, it will be when
its down to ONE format, the players are cheap enough to buy, the
standard DVD-Video format (along with SACD and DVD-A) can be
played on it, and I feel confident enough in making the move. Even then,
there's only a few titles that I would rebuy on such a format henseforth
its going to be a long time before I jump to any HD home video format.

Brian The Demolition Man Little

 

Can't prove it.. like most of your "claims". Not surprising.

You can't even remember the "claims" you make.

You wrote:

"Not entirely true. For 'some' titles, DVD and VHS(if the vhs version
was priced for sell-through) sales were neck and neck up until early
2003 or so. Infact, strangely enough, the VHS version of Finding Nemo
managed to sell many millions of copies and ended up making Disney a
buttload of extra dough."






"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

 

Defeat? Your unsubstantiated "Claims" often fall into the "pathetic"
category.

You know how many "average joe's" said "I have to buy a new machine...
new 'movies' .. and some box just so I can watch this dvd thing? Why
bother ... I'll stick with VHS." And that is a fact... I heard it
last summer...

Your big 'claim' about HD DVD is why would someone buy a machine when
they don't have a HDTV! The fact is that you will be able to hook up
HD machines to the TV's most folks have now. And while you will not
the full benefit of HD.. it will work. Just like folks do with regular
DVD.

Another large sampling by statistician "Black Locust"

Congratulations... keep buying Regular dvds.. the movie companies
love people like you.






"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

 

Kill file... learn it .. love it. Don't like the facts... you
certainly do not have to read them/comment on them. Especially when
you often have zero to add to the discussion.






"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

 

That's because he didn't claim "sales were neck and neck up until early
2003" he claimed
|||||||||||||||||
"****For 'some' titles**** sales were neck and neck up until early 2003
or so"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

By clipping his statement of key words you invented a claim that he
didn't make.

 

Allan wrote on [Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:15:14 -0500]:

When did wild hairs pulled out of your rear end become "the facts"?

 

I particularily liked how he equates holding a view that is not in
lock-step agremment with his own as "often have zero to add to the
discussion". With every post, Allan proves he is the 16-year old
mentioned in his sig file.

 

So assuming HD-DVD is just as fast as DVD was (which is very doubtful)
by your OWN numbers HD_DVD won't be the "dominant" format until
somewhere around Jul 2010 which is a bit longer than your 2008
prediction.

DVD first went on sale in Japan in 1996, the US in 1997.
Sales of DVDs did not surpass those of VHS until 2001 (and DVD rentals
did not surpass VHS rentals until 2003 according to the Video Software
Dealer's Association (VSDA) annual report (Google them if you are not
familiar with their annual report). In 2002 (for example) while DVD was
65% of the sales of videos, it was only 35% of rentals. so DVD wasn't
completely dominant until 2003 (which would push your HD-DVD dominance
date back until 2012, assuming same speed as DVD).

 

Where's your source for this "claim"?

Oh, i see it's from Allan's big statistaical sample of 1 (himself and
all his imaginary friends). I can hook up a DVD player to ANY TV I want
(including models from the early 70s, before the VCR hit the market and
thus before Video/Audio in jacks on TVs). How I can do it has already
been mentioned several times by other posters. So once again, you are
talking about things which you clearly know nothing about.

 

Definition for: killfile

A file for some Usenet reading programs which automatically discards
certain articles according to criteria set up by the reader, such as
subject or author.Items (such as people or subjects) added to the kill
file will not be shown for reading.






"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

 

Look it up... google.com

Your VCR needs to be so old it doesn't have Macrovision built in....
now that's old.

*yawn*







"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

 

Facts?? When have you posted any facts? You've basically quoted
industry sources. And industry sources tend to be optimistic. If you
listen to the RIAA the entire decrease in CD sales is caused by p2p
downloading, and if you listen to MLB they will tell you that all the
teams are losing money (but of course they don't show the books). So
basically all you've done is say that HiDef roolz and everyone will be
jumping on the bandwagon Real Soon Now.

dick

 

Allan wrote on [Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:38:16 -0500]:

No, it doesn't. I have a 6 year old machine that only turns the
macrovision when it's in record mode. Otherwise it's fine.

 

What's the model?







"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

 

Allan wrote on [Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:11:08 -0500]:

Panasonic 9451

 

Thanks.







"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

 

Considering your trollish behavior, I find that rather unbelievable.

As you are the one to make the assertion, the burden of proof is on
you. You can't expect other people to do your work for you (besides
which disproving a your fantasy's is more effort than a troll like you
is worth).

not all newsreaders have killfiles and not all users care to use them
even when they are available (fortunately for trolls like you).

 

Nope... first time!!! Sweet!.

Yeah... thinking HD DVD players just might have RCA/Component outputs
is a fantasy.

Guess taking time to reply to my post was worth the effort...

That's your assertion... the burden of proof is on you.

Well that's true.

Called Troll three times in one post! Thanks for adding so much to
this discussion. Time to head back class after recess.

Let me know what news reader you use... and I'll tell you how to set
up a killfile.







"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_