@SimbaDogg Wow, I'm impressed, you managed to put a positive BR spin into your post regarding this article! Did you read the entire article? In brief, what it is saying is that the Chinese industry has basically rubber stamped HD DVD as the format of choice with some minor modifications to call it CH DVD, and it has the support of most of the worlds leading manufacturers including Phillips, Panasonic etc and most amazingly Sony!.....nothing like an each way bet. The thing is though, the worlds disc producers, manufacturers etc and studios must follow, this market is just to big to ignore and it "could" potentially spell the end for BR as a mainstream player, (be a lovely little boutique market though. Who knows, we might even see a PS3 with a CH DVD drive :)(which is HD DVD by another name!)
u betcha i read the article, and i've read three other news articles about this and have picked up somewhat conflicting things. and i dont really think i put spin on it, if you think so...great...but i dont buy a lot of fanboyism in stuff i post, people have told me that before. i just like to argue facts. the only thing i said was 1) i seriously doubt that this is going to effect firms here in the us (movie firms that is) because i didn't see them buying a lot of hd dvd discs or blu ray discs from the states for that matter. there is a film industry in hong kong which is the hollywood of the eat, i think this is def going to be more geared to that 2) the oen thing i thought this was going to do for hd dvd was in all likeliness speed the development of china mftr'd hd dvd players heading stateside (is that pro blu ray?). i immediately followed that with a "but in the long term run, i can't see a chinese firm not making blu ray players as well. there's money to be made, and china likes their trade surplus w/ many countries." I would say thats just discussing both perspectives/sides of the fence, but...i guess u didn't think so.
“Getting too close completely blurred what we saw to the point of incomprehension, but again, this shows a whole heap of potential that's fascinating to us.”
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Wow, I'm impressed, you managed to put a positive BR spin into your post regarding this article! Did you read the entire article?
In brief, what it is saying is that the Chinese industry has basically rubber stamped HD DVD as the format of choice with some minor modifications to call it CH DVD, and it has the support of most of the worlds leading manufacturers including Phillips, Panasonic etc and most amazingly Sony!.....nothing like an each way bet.
The thing is though, the worlds disc producers, manufacturers etc and studios must follow, this market is just to big to ignore and it "could" potentially spell the end for BR as a mainstream player, (be a lovely little boutique market though. Who knows, we might even see a PS3 with a CH DVD drive :)(which is HD DVD by another name!)
u betcha i read the article, and i've read three other news articles about this and have picked up somewhat conflicting things. and i dont really think i put spin on it, if you think so...great...but i dont buy a lot of fanboyism in stuff i post, people have told me that before. i just like to argue facts.
the only thing i said was
1) i seriously doubt that this is going to effect firms here in the us (movie firms that is) because i didn't see them buying a lot of hd dvd discs or blu ray discs from the states for that matter. there is a film industry in hong kong which is the hollywood of the eat, i think this is def going to be more geared to that
2) the oen thing i thought this was going to do for hd dvd was in all likeliness speed the development of china mftr'd hd dvd players heading stateside (is that pro blu ray?). i immediately followed that with a "but in the long term run, i can't see a chinese firm not making blu ray players as well. there's money to be made, and china likes their trade surplus w/ many countries." I would say thats just discussing both perspectives/sides of the fence, but...i guess u didn't think so.