Walmart says HDDVD is the winner
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And the lens is different. That can be worked around.
If your prices guesses are right, I'll buy a round of electrons for all!
Or do we only do that in the Pub?
Not at all. My Big Grin
was directed at your comment "you apparently actually read the article before commenting. That may be violation of the etiquette for this forum" which I took as tongue-in-cheek sarcasm that some folks actually do check facts first before commenting.I always appreciate you contributions. :up
They are. They are also upset that they developed the DURABIS hard coating for Blu-ray discs and BD chose to use a different/less expensive coating.
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Actually, doesn't each studio or replicator decide which coating to use? I believe there are 2 or 3 out there in use.
According to Wikipedia -
Because the Blu-ray Disc standard places the data recording layer close to the surface of the disc, early discs were susceptible to contamination and scratches and had to be enclosed in plastic caddies for protection. The consortium worried that such an inconvenience would hurt Blu-ray Disc's market adoption. Blu-ray Discs now use a layer of protective material on the surface through which the data is read.
The recent introduction of a clear polymer coating has given Blu-ray Discs substantial scratch resistance. The coating is developed by TDK and is called "Durabis". It allows BDs to be cleaned safely with only a tissue. The coating is said to successfully resist "wire wool scrubbing" according to Samsung Optical technical manager Chas Kalsi. It is not clear, however, whether discs will use the Durabis coating as standard or only in premium discs.
Both Sony and Panasonic replication methods include proprietary hard-coat technologies. Sony's rewritable media are sprayed with a scratch-resistant and antistatic coating. Verbatim recordable and rewritable Blu-ray Disc discs use their own proprietary hard-coat technology called ScratchGuard.
Walmart has now come out and said the entire story is false. The story starting at AVSforum was not true. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2122719,00.asp
Perhaps now is not a good time to mention that I heard K-Mart is in cahoots with a undisclosed supplier in order to deliver a sub-$50 BD player sometime during the summer.
So Fuh Yuan is full of it. But WM still thinks a winner could be determined by the end of this year. Maybe things will start to heat up in the third quarter.
What this article says to me is that we should all go out and buy our BD/HD DVD players and media elsewhere...and not have anything to do with Wal-Mart, the King of all Evil.
