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Scotsman
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View profile »Some choice comments from the BBC article
"The discussions related to features took place at a point in time when every hardware company had frozen the architecture for their first generation of players"
Frank Simonis, of Philips and the European chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association
"We needed to create momentum and get the players on the market. If we had postponed launch to add in the hardware for the latest features, we would not be in the situation we have today."
Frank Simonis, of Philips and the European chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association
"The guys that bought the first Blu-ray players are the guys who bought the first laser discs. They know the risks."
Alastair Upham from DVD Review
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7187179.stm
Edited to clarify owner of third quote.
[Post edited by Scotsman on Jan 16, 2008 - CST 8:21 AM]
DjfunkmasterG
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View profile »HA HA HA HA HA! Sucker!
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You can't tell people "you knew what you were getting into". Once bluray has the interactive and web abilities figured out they should do something for these early adopters that won't be able to take advantage of the feautures. Otherwise you're going to have a lot of annoyed customers and they're not exactly going to be eager to keep buying movies.
[Post edited by Falcon01 on Jan 16, 2008 - CST 7:56 AM]
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If that's the attitude they will take this early on I would hate to see whats going to happen in the future if they are the only high definition format.
More and more I hope the two formats remain.
Scotsman
January 2008
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View profile »"We needed to create momentum and get the players on the market. If we had postponed launch to add in the hardware for the latest features, we would not be in the situation we have today."
Is not his way of saying we made a mistake. He's saying if we hadn't rushed to market with a half finished spec HD-DVD would have become dominant.
Don't you just love it when a company/companies shaft the consumer and then brags about it?
Skyhawk
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View profile »Actually the Scotsman was a little deceiving with this quote: "The guys that bought the first Blu-ray players are the guys who bought the first laser discs. They know the risks." It was Alastair Upham from DVD Review who said this - not Frank Simonis, of Philips. Alastair Upham is a longtime infamous HD DVD supporter. He's basically the "Bill Hunt" of the HD DVD world
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View profile »Not my intention
[Post edited by Scotsman on Jan 16, 2008 - CST 8:13 AM]
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http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/14/blu-ray-early-adopters-knew-what-they-were-getting-into-appar/