From: "Robert Comer" 

> The one weird thing Microsoft did for it's add on HD player is still not
> provide an HDMI 1080p solution unless you use the VGA add-on

That wouldn't hurt me much, I just a month ago joined the 1080i crowd and I
don't own an XBox.

> FWIW around here ( Detroit ) while the Wii is still very hard to find Sony
> PS3s are starting to gather some dust on the shelves.

That is pretty interesting!  How about Xbox's?


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Bob Comer





"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
message news:45a7b233$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>I can see the new ads - Xbox 360 made for porn 
>
> The one weird thing Microsoft did for it's add on HD player is still not
> provide an HDMI 1080p solution unless you use the VGA add-on
>
> FWIW around here ( Detroit ) while the Wii is still very hard to find Sony
> PS3s are starting to gather some dust on the shelves.
>
>
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:45a7afdc{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> One of the big problems they have with Blu-ray is its expense, followed
>>> by its market share. "Blu-ray has superior quality,
yes," said a
>>> spokesperson for porn studio Bangbros, "but HD DVD is
easier to produce,
>>> cheaper to produce and there are more HD DVD players in homes than there
>>> are Blu-ray players, for example in the Xbox 360."
>>
>> That sounds like the best argument for HD DVD than the fallacious porn
>> industry only one, it's why the porn industry is choosing it...
>>
>> This is *exactly* the same as beta vs vhs -- the quality was better with
>> beta, the players and tapes are cheaper to make for VHS.
>>
>> Sony ought to have learn their lesson with beta. 
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>> --
>> Bob Comer
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>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote
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>>> The war is over 
>>>
>>> http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/11/ces2007_hddvd_blu_ray/
>>>
>>> Las Vegas (NV) - Knowing their audience quite well, the adult
>>> entertainment industry holds their annual get together in Las Vegas to
>>> coincide with the CES. There is also a very pertinent crossover between
>>> the adult and tech industries - porn has a tendency to drive, and be
>>> driven, by technology. Which means HD DVD when it comes to high-def.
>>>
>>> Quite famously in the war between Betamax and VHS the latter won
>>> especially because the adult industry preferred it. If you've been
>>> around long enough, you probably remember that the very early home video
>>> rental stores were primarily responsible for driving Betamax out of the
>>> market. And those stores carried almost exclusively pornographic
>>> content.
>>>
>>> Putting myself through the arduous trek through the floor of the adult
>>> expo I did a quick straw poll on, the virtues of HD DVD versus Blu-ray,
>>> and the answer from a dozen companies, big and small, including Pink
>>> Visual and Bangbros editor-in-chief, is going into a single direction:
>>> HD DVD is the preferred format. Period.
>>>
>>> One of the big problems they have with Blu-ray is its expense, followed
>>> by its market share. "Blu-ray has superior quality,
yes," said a
>>> spokesperson for porn studio Bangbros, "but HD DVD is
easier to produce,
>>> cheaper to produce and there are more HD DVD players in homes than there
>>> are Blu-ray players, for example in the Xbox 360."
>>>
>>> Pink Visual heavily complained about the fact that Blu-ray discs cannot
>>> be replicated and a range of other studios, who did not want to be
>>> mentioned by name indicated that the cost of going with Blu-ray cancels
>>> the technology as a possible HD solution for this industry.
"Only bigger
>>> studios can afford Blu-ray, and even then it's not
economical," we were
>>> told.
>>>
>>> It would seem that either Blu-ray has to do some catching up very
>>> quickly. But we got the strange feeling that HD DVD has won the format
>>> war already, at least in the porn industry.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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