Why all the hate? BD was expected to be harder than HD-DVD to stamp commerically. Everyone knew this, including the studios that signed up for BD.
And, people keep calling this a Sony format. You're not over that yet? If anything, HD-DVD is more proprietary given it's lack of support.
FYI; Toshiba, the principle backers of HDDVD, collect rolyalties on all things related to DVD because its their encoding format that is used in DVDs. Perhaps, everyone got fed up with them and told them to f*ck off when they came around with the HD-DVD specs.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Why all the hate? BD was expected to be harder than HD-DVD to stamp commerically. Everyone knew this, including the studios that signed up for BD.
And, people keep calling this a Sony format. You're not over that yet? If anything, HD-DVD is more proprietary given it's lack of support.
FYI; Toshiba, the principle backers of HDDVD, collect rolyalties on all things related to DVD because its their encoding format that is used in DVDs. Perhaps, everyone got fed up with them and told them to f*ck off when they came around with the HD-DVD specs.