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I am talking about the "DIVX" rollout, supported by Paramount and Fox at first, not the actual compression system. Surely you're aware that's what I'm talking about.
DIVX still sucks.
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Ah, you people have been living in the stone age What is this DVD nonsense?? Why can't you use the 10^10terrabyte datacrystals that everyone else does?
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I would like to point out that all DVD players receiving an upgrade to support MPEG-4 is about as likely as Simon fitting into a pair of hot pants.
What we buy is largely determined by very big companies. They told us to get rid of our vinyl records, and buy CD's, because they were better. And lo and behold, we did. A decade later, admitedley, but still.
When the companies went off on their own, they got failures (CD-I for one, Minidisc for another AND DON'T START!). When they all worked together, they got successes (CD's, and DVD's). It's took them around 10 years to get everyone buying CD's. It's taken them 4 years to get us to start buying DVD players and Widescreen TV's (and they still aren't at the point of CD success). Can you really imagine them turning around and saying "Oh, we're now going to release a NEW DVD format, so that all you who have bought DVD players will feel really pissed off! BWAHAHAHAHA!"
They're not selling to computer nerds who are quite happy to upgrade their computer every year. They are trying to sell to the general public, who hate anything remotely new.
We won't be seeing these new discs getting mass-market penetration any time soon. At best, they'll become the new laserdisc. At worst, they'll be a foot-note, until, in 10 years time, Sony and Philips deceide will all need to upgrade our stuff again.
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Are we to assume that someone is a computer nerd just because he/she upgrades once every five months? Just because not everyone toils in technological obscurity with a celeron and 32mb of ram doesn't mean we're nerds. I would not buy the new DVD format because I don't need it, but if I did, I would not hesitate to do it immediately. And about my last post, kid, you don't know how to take jokes now do you?
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BTW - Yes, upgrading you hot source of hands3xx0r, or computer, every five months is a major source of nerdage.
BTWA - Liam, a kid? Uh. As compared to you?
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I don't even want to know how one upgrades one's source of hands3xx0r... New gloves, maybe?
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In a perfect world, FMD would come to mass market fairly fast (within 4 years time or so), and be able to best out or even keep up with the already established and fledgling CD and DVD standards.
However this isn't a perfect world. We have things called industry standards and copyright laws and the like. Movie making labels sell, almost exclusively, their movie rights to supporters of the VHS and DVD communities.
I can see the need for this immense storage capacity. Anybody ever heard of TiVo? The device that allows Television views to prerecord their favorite television programs to a hard drive and watch it at any time they wish? This device is amazingly useful, but theonly downside is that the quality of recording is SHIT. It isn't even VHS quality, and by my standards, VHS is not quality. if you want VHS quality, the usual 90 hour recording time is rediced to 30 hours. Like I said, this FMD thing could really be useful for TiVo, as the gargantuan size would mean views could view VHS quality TV shows (what we view normally) with a considerable record time still available.
I had a view other things to say, but I forgot, so I guess you're all pretty lucky I'm not going to continue to talk.
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