...and 4 is a party!!! Lets join the dots for you, pay attention now Gus!
It's ironic because you moan about the BDA touting percentages and then backup your whine by touting another percentage and proudly proclaim it as fact!
"Sorry to disappoint but I've been extremely selective (buying internationally since the start - the weak $ US verses UK £ was a major boost) paying very little for my HD DVD movies and enjoying that enormously.
You're wrong."
No, you're wrong! Buying 100+ titles is NOT being extremely selective! Laughing all the way to the bank after spending a minimum of over £500-£1000+ ?!? Hardly!
"I'm laughing all the way to the bank and have been since this started."
I've been laughing at every retarded post you've made since the middle of last year with your stupid predictions which have all surprisingly...failed!
"I couldn't even buy them all in SD DVD for that."
That's because it's an obsolete format which won't be replaced! Go figure!
"all for sharing and I make no secret of it. You corporate b!tches can keep on pretending it's "piracy" if you like."
Of course it's piracy you moron! Are you incapable of reading the disclaimer on every piece of media you buy which states you cannot reproduce said media?!? Too much for you to comprehend?
"But yes, nice of you to raise & point out that every single Blu-ray release (along with every single HD DVD release) is available right now as either a straight rip or a nice encode (many at handy DVD5 or DVD9 sizes and extremely well done given the size limitations).
Thanks for that."
No, Thank you for clarifying you're a pirate!
"I've even bought the defunct SACD & DVD-Audio discs because of this reason."
And now you have HD-DVD to bolster your defunct collection! Hoorah!
"I have no interest in the viability of the formats, if I like it & it's good quality I'll be interested. But I won't buy Blu-ray (until they either drop the DRM BS or it dies and I can buy sh!tloads of movies again for next to nothing)."
So you're either a cheap ass pirate or have a fetish for techno-necrophilia!
"If only the corporate fools (& their idiot shills) could understand this, sharing generates sales where there would otherwise never have been a sale."
What you don't grasp is, removing DRM will only open the door for the profiteers to sell the media with no hinderance whatsoever. That is why China was flooded with pirated HD-DVD material way before it was due to be launched there (and prematurely binned!). Removing DRM would NOT magically turn people honest!
"No sales have been lost."
Are you that nieve? deluded? or just plain stupid? Go and do some research on how much revenue is lost to piracy!
"The big deal with retailed discs is that you get all the 'added value' stuff a download cannot offer......that's where the industry ought to be concentrating, the current idiocy for persecuting sharers does nothing to stop the genuine 'pirates' (who copy & sell on a vast scale regardless of any of that ridiculous DRM BS they include - at our ultimate expense)."
So where have you seen pirated Blu-ray discs for sale on the high street? Nobody gives a toss about DRM except pirates.....like you!
"But of course that would mean that 'the industry' would have to actually routinely use some imagination and bother about releasing a high quality product, which would cost a few pennies more, something they, largely, abhor. Wake up."
You don't work in the industry so you evidently know f&$k all about the economics of the situation. You just stroll by in your own selfish little deluded world which borders on maniacal.
"I'm anti-Blu-ray because it is specifically designed to rob consumers of even more control over what they supposedly own."
Consumers don't own the movie!!! They own the right to WATCH the movie. They don't the right to COPY the movie. They don't own the right to DISTRIBUTE the movie! Are you even capable of reading the terms and conditions?!?!?
"I laughed so hard at you then that a little bit of wee-wee came out."
Yeah, old age incontinence does that!
"Not much of a one for irony are you? Are you American?"
Yup, you keep your head in the sand Truth Teller, like you've always done! Always muttering about about bluray.com or PS3 kiddies? Weak mind? Come up with something new.
So you paid peanuts for your HD-DVD collection? Hardly! Their price only plummeted when Toshiba threw in the towel. That must give you a warm fuzzy feeling all over knowing your extensive collection of HD-DVD can now be bought for less than peanuts in every bargain bin.
I, like many others, don't pay through the nose for Bluray media. You can get them cheap online (as we've always done) and there are always offers to be had, not like you'd know considering the amount of piracy you admit to.
The anti-blu power trio of Truth Teller, Nfinity, and HD4ME with their tediously routine doom and gloom posts! Always something for you to moan about eh? Little sponges of any and all anti-Blu rumours! Hell, Nfinity is even bringing up the old 1 billion pay-off bollox which never happened! lol
Go right ahead and enjoy your chosen alternate format! Be it SUC, the HD-DVD bargain bin, downloads, piracy, rentals, DVD upscaling! You've been trolling about them all!
You three lost the plot in January and have been mourning the dead ever since! Judging by your frequent predictions of the past (with unnerving accuracy I might add! lol), Blu-ray was to be imminently crushed by HD-DVD! but when that didn't happen, your little maniacal ego's couldn't handle it! Now you carry the torch for which is also conveniently going to imminently crush Blu-ray!
Blu-ray isn't going anywhere, prices are coming down, titles are being churned out, and each a slap round your chops!
Lol I laugh when l think back to Truth Teller and his Tsunami warnings of Blu destruction!
"Everybodies high def actual sales numbers must be tiny, that 'since inception' number has barely moved (HD DVD has only just moved to 32% this month and not the 33% it has been all of this year)."
All of this year?!? You mean all of 4 months compared to 2 years from its conception?!? LOL! Do you work out your sums on toilet paper and with a large green crayon?!?
"I'm not surprised the verses SD DVD stat is being dropped, no-one except the die-hard Blu-ray/PS3 gang would believe that in a movie disc market where SD DVD sell 750 million + discs annually and Blu-ray has yet to see even double figure annual sales that that equates to 4%, 6% or (hysterically) 8% of the market."
Yet again you jump to your own deluded conclusion "dead link? oh they must be giving up!!!!" LMAO! You really are a space cadet! How can you equate market success of a new technology to that of an established one that has been marketed for 10+ years, expect it to supercede it within such a short time frame and ultimately conclude it's failure!!! Well in the crazy, crazy mind of Truth Teller you can! Time to take your brain for it's annual service! I predict it will fail!
"Blu-ray (in it's entire 2 years of being around) has yet to match just 2% of the SD DVD annual sales number."
What happened to you always saying that Blu-ray would never surpass 1% of the market?!? Ooops! did that happen already?!? LAMO! damn, spelling mistake! that should b.....actually, no I was right the first time!
"Blu-ray is going nowhere, least of all into the mainstream mass-market."
Your track record of predicting the adoption of ANYTHING is laughable at best!
The TRUTH is Toshiba ain't paying your wage any more sunshine! AND for a shill your comments were shit! No original content, same old news, you were a joke and still are!
Ahh Truth Teller on another one of his pathetic rants...yet again! Never ceases to amaze how many times you can paste the same old crap over and over again...
I would guess the majority of people here don't really give two sh1ts what you post any more because a) it's 100% horsesh!t and b) it's always the same post! In the end we just laugh at your insane ramblings!
We already know you're a sad sack who thinks that sharing isn't piracy! LMAO! In what deluded drug induced state do you actually keep yourself in? Copying and distribution of copyrighted materials whether it is in a flea market, to a friend, or online is still piracy no matter which way you try and slice it. Just because you're not taking any cash doesn't make you Robin Hood!...on second thoughts maybe you do have a fondness for prancing round your basement in lime green tights!!! Just don't go breaking your nails typing so much!
Your bitter anti-BD rants are tiresome, predictable, and don't actually offer any credible argument....so nothing different there then!
A classic a-typical disgruntled HD-DVD zealot who can't find any other outlet for his bitterness except to post flamebait! Quite quite sad!
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It's ironic because you moan about the BDA touting percentages and then backup your whine by touting another percentage and proudly proclaim it as fact!