OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[froot loops]

It destroyed Divx as a platform too.

[Larsky]

I'm so grateful we have a porn industry insider on the Forum to enlighten us.

[dwt1]

hey, facts are facts

[Larsky]

It destroyed Divx as a platform too.

DivX destroyed itself by being a bad business model. Most people just didn't want to buy DVDs that became useless after a few viewings.

[Larsky]

hey, facts are facts

What are you complaining about? I said I was grateful.

By the way, is it true you can actually get porn in the internet? I read that recently....

[dwt1]

great line on house last night - "I just wanted you guys out of my office, porn is backing up on the interent....it doesn't download itself you know"

[Panoptes]

I will get a PS3 someday but I want to wait until they include the 1.3 HDMI standard on all models (which I think is now) and also add the ability to play music CD's which according to my understanding the unit does not do at the moment.

IIRC, the PS3 currently does not up-convert old DVD's either.

They need to include these issues in the next version update.

[mason reese]

don't go blue ray, HD DVD is going to win this fight - How do I know, the porn industry is going HD DVD, that will tip the scales as it did for VHS over BETA.

I remember reading somewhere that the reason the porn industry is going HD DVD is because Sony won't release any blue ray porn disks. I guess there are no third party producers of blue ray disks, so Sony has a strangle hold on what gets released on their format.

[unknown lions fan]

And there you go. The most open format will always win over the one with proprietary rules all over it.

Except in the case of the IPod. Still trying to figure that one out. ;)

[SeattleLionsFan]

I think the IPod is a long way from having "won" the MP3 player market.

[froot loops]

I don't think so, its been won. I'll never buy anything Apple but its hard not to notice how much the Ipods dominate.

[unknown lions fan]

I was going to asterisk that SLF. I believe the IPod has won in the short term. I think MP3 will still come back and ultimately take over. It's certainly not going away.

[SeattleLionsFan]

It was hard not to notice how the Apple Macintosh and Apple IIc dominated the home computer market too...

[froot loops]

Actually it was hard to notice, they didn't dominate the market.

[Jdoggie]

DivX destroyed itself by being a bad business model. Most people just didn't want to buy DVDs that became useless after a few viewings.

I liked Divx. I think it could have been more sucessful had they sold them in 7/11's or other convience stores. I mean it cost 3.00 to rent a movie, why not 3 to rent and not have to return.