yeah that's a brilliant interpretation. Either that, or all the revenue they are in line to collect from their Proprietary iHD interactivity coding for the menus, and the VC-1 Codec. if HD-DVD were to theoretically win, Microsoft would only be collecting a percentage of every movie sold for the life of the format. I would stick to your day job bro and leave the analyst work to others.
You know what format war I must put up with? Whether to download the x264 or the WMV-HD rip of the BR/HD disc from UseNET. I mean it's taxing and all, but I haven't threatened anyone yet.
When they do pull their heads out of their asses and there is one format remaining, I might consider actually purchasing a player. Until then I'll have to keep streaming to my chinese HD playing wonder box.
2004 microsoft fanboy comments: "Microsoft cares about gamers because they give us a choice as to what add-ons we need, most of which are unecessary and we'll never need" 2007 microsoft fanboy comments: "Do you take credit card?"
As a southpaw, I can attest that we "pwn" in deathmatches.... except for when Ubisoft neglects to support Southpaw controls and refuses to patch the capability nearing 1 year after release. GRAW on 360 *cough*
Michael Bay's format war conspiracy theory: it's a Microsoft fix
Dec 4th 2007 8:55PM (Engadget)Format war gets more warlike
Nov 7th 2007 6:24PM (Engadget)When they do pull their heads out of their asses and there is one format remaining, I might consider actually purchasing a player. Until then I'll have to keep streaming to my chinese HD playing wonder box.
Thieves choose Blu-ray over HD DVD in mass disc heist
Jul 25th 2007 12:35PM (Engadget)what crack are you smoking? I thought the HD-DVD combo discs make HD-DVD's MORE expensive.
HD DVD's latest firmware update enables web features
Jul 2nd 2007 4:18PM (Engadget)Rumor: Mass Effect 'delayed', due in September [update]
Apr 23rd 2007 3:24PM (Joystiq)2007 microsoft fanboy comments: "Do you take credit card?"
Lefties pwn righties, determines Aussie study
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Jun 28th 2006 10:31AM (Joystiq)Xbox 360 is April's top selling console
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