On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:47:01 +0100, Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>  Sometimes you really do give the impression that you live under a rock.
>
> Why? Because I don't follow every tiny twist and turn of modern  
> technology with bated breath?

Do you read no tech-related news? Any news at all?
The end of HD-DVD was fairly big news, and was at least mentioned by  
mainstream media.


> And while we're on the subject... I gather that all this "HD" stuff is  
> only slightly better quality than what's already there. It's not like  
> anybody is going to notice a huge increase in picture quality.

The increase in picture quality can be quite noticeable, but only if you  
have equipment that can display it properly.


> And that makes it hard for me to get excited about it...

A lot of people are of the opinion that selling movies on optical media is  
obsolete anyway.


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FE

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