peyote

i just bought a house that closes march 29th & one of the renovations was the media room. looking forward to an elite Kuro & in a couple years, was hoping to replace it with 9mm version. wtf is goin' on when kuro's the best but too many morons don't realize how much better it is?

format war? war is dead & over......
until the official white flag is raised, let's put news like this in the who cares category? i liked hd-dvd, but let's bury the dead horse & report the stuff we care about. otherwise, the reporting turns into an 08 BR fanboy victory lap.

i'm officially back on the fence again after hd-dvd debacle this week. i'm sure there will be plenty of warm seats vacated now & the fact that dual-format players are going to be a wasted effort gives me longer time to sit it out a while. congrats to the people who felt it important to win. i was hoping the competition would last long enough to give us what we really wanted: more features & options.

so what are the copyright rules for dead formats again?

i'll hang this up where my SED was sposed' to be.

big bang theory

@ steve jr.,
i have series 3. what i meant was when you're watching a show live & hit info, you don't get the episode # & orig. air date (same as info from guide). But the shortcut to this "before you actually record" is to hit record & before confirm, hit info & scroll down to see air date. important for 1 episode recording. it's a pain because there should be an easier way to get that info before recording it. tivoHD & series 3 have same menu, correct?

i'm also frustrated at local cableco. most of my shows are crossed out when i see them in the tivo transfer. i waited a while for this to get to series 3 & almost everything, but main HD channels are X-ed out. i'm too lazy to get them to correct the copy flags. if anyone in OKC, OK area wants to complain, be my guest & i'll thank you with a thank you.

my point on HD-DVD & Blu-Ray is they both kick-ass (only have HDdvd) & if the one i have dies out, then it'll give me the perfect excuse to rip it to my Hard Drive.

TiVO talk: One more thing that frustrates is not being able to get the episode # & original air date when you scroll through info of channel or guide window. a way around this is to hit record & when you get the recording window option, hit info & it will give you more detailed info. like you'd have on playback.

sidenote: i noticed on the topic of Planet Earth, there's confusion about who narrates which version. If you want sigourney weaver over david attenborough, buy from http://www.PEDVD.com. everyone else that sells planet earth, sells the d. attenborough version. couldn't find it until now, so i finally broke down & bought the weaver version. at $85.90 after shipping (no tax), it's 'bout $15 more then the price of BBC version.

long-winded, but thought someone might need 2 know. later-(good show)

@david phidjit,
from http://www.homemediamagazine.com/news/html/breaking_article.cfm?article_id=11449, the story engadgethd links to, (halfway down right after what you quoted) he says they are committed to Blu-ray.
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Silverberg noted that Warner has the top-selling Blu-ray title of all time with 300 and is consistently No. 1 or No. 2 in both Blu-ray sales market share and in number of Blu-ray titles in the market.

“We can definitely talk Blu-ray,” he said. “We are committed to the format.”
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personally, i favor HD-DVD and this could easily be double-speak considering he's at a Blu-Ray rally. i mean what else would he say there, right?

steven kim,
apologies go out. conversed with Mike Snyder (usa today author) & he said
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"Yes. Had the story run sooner, I think the story might have been arranged differently, but they wanted the DVD info up high because we pegged it to the first week of DVD sales. And many editors think that the format war is less important than us techies."
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so apologies go out to everyone forced to read my dribbled words, especially go out to Mr. Kim. i usually don't get reactionary like that but i try. (seemed like the perfect storm of misinformation. not so)
-later

EDIT:
First sentence meant to be about Dave Cowl:
Being accused of being a fanboy is no reason to start writing this way without stating it in the story.

Second sentence meant for Steven Kim:
okay, why didn't you directly link to USA Today rather then formatwars site?