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[News] Blu-ray Has Virtually Won, ODF to Only Format to Use Too

  • Subject: [News] Blu-ray Has Virtually Won, ODF to Only Format to Use Too
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:16:19 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Blu-ray players grab 93 percent of market after Warner went Blu

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| According to the latest NPD group report, during the month of December 
| Blu-ray players held 60 percent of the HD media player market -- despite the 
| fact that HD DVD players were considerably cheaper.  
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http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/22/blu-ray-players-grab-93-percent-of-market-after-warner-went-blu/

Toshiba already pretty much bundles HDDVD player with films! Buy a CD, get
equipment for free...

While you’re waiting, don’t save in OOXML format

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| I thought I would point out something that I assume is fairly obvious to most 
| people: 
| 
| Saving your documents in OOXML format right now is probably
| about the riskiest thing you can do if you are concerned with
| long term interoperability.
| 
| First, the “official” ECMA OOXML that was submitted to ISO
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2031


Related:

Jobs: Blu-ray wins HD format war then loses to downloads

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| Blu-ray Disc beat HD DVD, but who cares? Downloads, not physical media, are 
| the future of HD content consumption. So said Apple CEO Steve Jobs this week, 
| a comment that's a distant echo of allegations made by Transformers director 
| Michael Bay last year.   
| 
| Bay grumbled that the HD format war was, in part, Microsoft's fault, the 
| fight being stirred up to worry consumers into not buying eitehr format and 
| give the software giant to put movie download and rental services in place. 
| Which is, of course, just what Apple launched this week: HD-ready iTunes 
| Movie Rentals.    
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/18/jobs_on_bluray_hddvd/


DVD sales plummet

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| USA Today points out that the the movie download market could be another 
| killer. That industry is expected to double from $689 million in 2006 to $1.6 
| billion in 2008.  
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/08/dvd-sales-plummet


Microsoft to bypass High Def disc war with Mediaroom on Xbox 360

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| This is why Microsoft is not overly worried about Warner Bros jumping ship 
| from the HD DVD that they back, to Blu-Ray high definition disc format.  They 
| know that in the long run, the physical media will be bypassed.  
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16006/1063/


No Winner In Blu-ray, HD DVD Battle

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| Both rival formats seeking to become the high-definition successor to the DVD 
| have attracted consumers, and while Blu-ray Disc leads HD DVD, the race is 
| far from over.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| "That is the dirty secret no one is talking about," said Bay, director of the 
| recent hit film "Transformers." "They want confusion in the market until they 
| perfect the digital downloads." Microsoft sells HD movie and TV show 
| downloads to its video game consoles through its Xbox Live Marketplace.    
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/071224/tech.html?.v=1


Director: Microsoft fueling HD wars

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| Microsoft is deliberately feeding into the HD disc format wars to ensure that 
| its own downloads succeed where physical copies fail, says movie director 
| Michael Bay in a response to a question posed through his official forums. 
| The producer contends that Microsoft is writing "$100 million dollar checks" 
| to movie studios to ensure HD DVD exclusives that hurt the overall market 
| regardless of the format's actual merit or its popularity, preventing any one 
| format from gaining a clear upper hand. Bay's own Transformers is available 
| on disc only in the less popular HD DVD format despite his stated preference 
| for Blu-ray. To the director, this is primarily a stalling tactic while 
| Microsoft refines its own online-only technology.         
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/12/04/bay.on.microsoft.hd/


Two Studios to Support HD DVD Over Rival

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|     But money talks: Paramount and DreamWorks Animation together will receive 
|     about $150 million in financial incentives for their commitment to HD 
|     DVD, according to two Viacom executives with knowledge of the deal but 
|     who asked not to be identified.   
| 
|     The incentives will come in a combination of cash and promotional 
|     guarantees. Toshiba, for instance, will use the release of “Shrek the 
|     Third” as part of an HD DVD marketing campaign.  
| 
|     Paramount and DreamWorks Animation declined to comment. Microsoft, the 
|     most prominent technology company supporting HD DVDs, said it could not 
|                                                                   ^^^^^^^^^
|     rule out payment but said it wrote no checks. “We provided no financial
|     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^     
|     incentives to Paramount or DreamWorks whatsoever,” said Amir Majidimehr, 
|     the head of Microsoft’s consumer media technology group.    
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/technology/21disney.html?ei=5088&en=d4e1f285e2f41437&ex=1345348800&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1187698143-B5wO3L/F+4r1NyAsum87vQ


Cringely the Unemployable on the fallacy of Web 2.0, Microsoft ruthlessness,
and the CB radio of our decade

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| Davidson: Which software company would you hate to compete against? What 
| makes you single them out? 
| 
| Cringely: Microsoft of course. They have the deepest of pockets, unlimited 
| ambition, and they are willing to lose money for years and years just to make 
| sure that you don't make any money, either. And they are mean, REALLY mean.  
| 
| Davidson: Why do you think Microsoft is mean? Are you implying some kind of 
| malicious intent rather than just ruthlessness? 
| 
| Cringely: Maybe "mean" is the wrong word to use for Microsoft. "Ruthless" is 
| good. The company is built in the image of Bill Gates and Bill is a guy who 
| gets caught-up in the game of business and doesn't typically see its personal 
| cost. To use what might seem to be an obscure example, just look at all the 
| various partnerships and industry consortia that Microsoft has announced 
| through the years that never produced a product or even a usable 
| specification. There have been literally dozens of these operations that are 
| intended solely to freeze the competition until Microsoft can figure what the 
| heck it actually wants to do. To Microsoft its a PR exercise that helps them 
| compete but to customers it is just a damned lie. That's ruthless. There are 
| plenty of other examples I can give but you get the point. I represent the 
| concerns of users, not vendors, and Microsoft doesn't really care about 
| users.            
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http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html

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