Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ [H]omer on Thursday 22 November 2007 22:56 : \____
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>>> Tosh to tempt laptop buyers with free HD DVDs
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> It has always been dodgy... how Microsoft and Toshiba "dumped"
>>> products and possibly bribed studios to switch to HD-DVD (see below).
>>> It doesn't receive much coverage, but it may be similar to
>>> Microsoft's OOXML frauds, which are well recoreded.
>>
>> Like Vista, they can't even give it away for free. They can stuff it.
>
> I've seen some posts in the past 2 days about Microsoft giving Vista away for
> free (there's a catch). Free samples of LSD...
>
Sanyo or Toshiba used to make very inexpensive Beta recorders when Sony
were trying to push their format over the (technically inferior) VHS
format.
It's not acceptable, of course, but it's also quite common.
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