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> Personally, I think these press releases do us more harm than good.
I do see a huge paradigm shift for consumers of home entertainment as
they come to learn that HDTV is very similar to computers; the hardware
gets outdated within a few years and there is always something better on
the horizon.
Richard Fisher
www.HDLibrary.com Published by Tech Services
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> Personally, I think these press releases do us more harm than good. The
> last thing the general public needs to hear is that once HD bluray
> whatever comes out, there's something else on the horizon to make it
> obsolete.
>
> Stick to discrete steps and space out major innovations. That is, unless
> the companies making the products are willing to a) make it seamless and
> backwards compatible and/or b) make it a free upgrade
>
> I love to read those physics papers, but I don't see the value in Motley
> Fool reporting this info.
>
> Jason
>
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> From: HDTV Magazine On Behalf
> Of Rodolfo La Maestra
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:30 PM
> To: HDTV Magazine
> Subject: Re: You Think Blu-ray Is Exciting?
>
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> Richard,
>
> I believe you meant 1.5 terabyte disc (not GB).
>
> The system seems promising; toward the end of the article it
> anticipated that it could take a decade before it reaches the consumer.
>
> In a decade many things can happen, even HDTV could be upgraded, and
> near future blue-laser Hi Def DVDs be superseded.
>
> Even now the blue laser technology has reached 200GB disc capacity, and
> several hybrid discs inventions were introduced over the last year.
>
> If my memory serves me correctly back in 1999 there was company that was
> promoting their invention of 100 layers on a single disc, their name was
> something like FMD, I probably have the information on my files, they
> certainly exceeded 7 years earlier all the newer blue laser technology
> that has not reached implementation yet.
>
> So is not in the hands of R&D labs that creates a great format to make
> it adopted, but in the mass support of the CE and computing industry,
> and certainly the content providers.
>
> The history has shown that for that support to be obtained, all the
> specs and standards approved, all the lobbies completed, and of course,
> all the content protection issues resolved, no R&D format invention can
> survive the waiting and would probably be different at the end of such
> long process, especially when we reach image levels of the perfection to
> HDTV.
>
> Thanks for the link.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Rodolfo La Maestra
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HDTV Magazine On Behalf Of
> Richard
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:55 PM
> To: HDTV Magazine
> Subject: You Think Blu-ray Is Exciting?
>
>
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>
> With all the traffic over HD-DVD and the format wars now they are
> talking about a 1.5GB disc
>
>
http://www.hdtvmagazine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5302
>
> Richard Fisher
>
www.HDLibrary.com Published by Tech Services A division of Mastertech
> Repair Corporation
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