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Robo
Formerly Roboman, still
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
 
2006-01-21, 23:57

Yeah. I want an HDTV (projector!) and I want HD movies and games, but the whole HD mess is ridiculously convoluted. (I didn't say confusing - I "get it," even though I guarantee the average citizen won't) - but it's just, well, a mess.

There's three different "high definitions." There's two competing high definition disc formats. And then, after the transition has already started, the MPAA suddenly decides to introduce HDCP, which guarantees that basically all the current HDTV owners won't be able to watch their movies in HD. What?!

Never has a transition been so...botched.

I bet if the current draconion corporate paranoia was in place when color TV was introduced, we'd still be watching in black and white.

and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong
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