Posted on 06/08/2006 3:06:44 AM PDT by RWR8189
Sony will not be able to compete with HD-DVD, the cost will drop and become attractive to everyday consumers. (Not just tech heads)
This does not mean that Play Station 3 won't sell, it just won't sell in the numbers Sony hopes. This of course opens the door to Sony's competitors. (As if Bill Gates doesn't have enough money
No, it wouldn't, because then you couldn't put them into a laptop (or anything with a slimline slotloading drive)- and that would kill it off right there.
That's why you can take the disc out of that cartridge pictured above.
And if you wanted the format to succeed, you should have bought this when it was new and available. Just like, oh, your rants about wanting something to smash the iPod - if nobody buys a product, it won't survive. You have to buy what you support. You didn't buy DVD-RAM carts, neither did anyone else, that's why its dead now.
Oh, and it's still possible to scratch one of these that's in the case, even with the shutter closed.
Yes you could the laptop drive would be made to accept the case
Maybe you shoudl learn some things and not just get your information from apple.
You do know that the drive for that is about 1.5" tall, right?
Most laptop bases are under .75". And people want them even thinner, not thicker.
DVD-RAM IN CARTRIDGES is DEAD.
That format is dead and not coming back. The DVD-RAM disc format itself is not dead (as someone else noted earlier), but the DVD-RAM Cartridge *is*.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-RAM
You cannot find a DVD-RAM cartridge drive in stores any more.
Absolutely, and I believe Sony will ultimately be the loser.
and that was stupid, ALL cd's and dvd's should have the case, thats why it died because it wasn't compatible.
Philips didn't learn anything from that - they tried it again with the DCC (Digital Compact Cassette) format in the 90s. That's deader than a doornail (for audio, anyway).
then the engineers have some work to do
Um, no. Early DVD-Rs came in carts, too - and the DVD spec includes carts, as I recall - but people hated CD caddies, they hated DVD caddies/carts, and they bought drives that didn't need them. And no, you can't make the caddy/carrier/cart thinner, because you have to allow for disc flex and vibration.
Slot loaders are smaller and more reliable anyway.
yea they said that about cd-r's too and that they would last 100 years!
DO NOT MAKE THEM WITHOUT... see...
Wondered what all that ranting was about on those other posts? Sony takes things to another level and like their Walkman and Connect Music. Sony may be hitting a grand slam!
Don't buy cheap CD-R's, then.
Kodak used to make (dunno if they still do) gold CD-R's that were *more* scratch resistant than regular production CD-ROMs!
Also, I guess you've never heard of a SurfaceSaver or DiscDoctor - nor do you know why you can scratch the hell out of the back of a CD and always get it to polish out just fine.
yea yea gold this, i have those and they scratch the same as the others, a marketing ploy doesn't work in the real world and im not holding my breath that my data will last 100years on those "gold" cd's either.
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