Why is the demise of blu-ray well deserved? I think its awesome. Or do you juat have Sony Derangement Syndrome?
Nope, no SDS. :-) Just tired of Sony trying to shove their proprietary formats down people's throats - there just ain't any argument against the fact that Sony is just about the most anti-consumer company on earth. If Sony played nicely with all the other members of the HiDef Forum we wouldn't have this insane format war to begin with - but Sony got greedy, picked up its marbles and said "$crew you" to the rest of the world, and developed its own format instead of getting behind HD DVD, which was chosen as DVDs successor by the worldwide HiDef Forum.
Plus, Sony has promised much about advanced content and delivered nothing; Blu is far from a completed spec, and it looks as though it won't be ready for prime time for years, if ever. But I'm assuming you already know about Profile 1.0, Profile 1.1 (deadline has passed - where are the players?), Profile 2.0, etc. If you got any of your friends into Blu, I'm assuming you were honest with them and told them that if they buy a Blu player today it's an incomplete player, with no guarantee that it can ever be upgraded? I can recommend HD DVD to my family and friends with a clear conscience - can you do the same for Blu?
You make like companies that install root kits on your computers. I don't. Let Sony burn in hell for that one.
I'll bite. As payback for the root-kit mod they made to my computer without my approval. And as payback for DRM and the additional OS bloat.
On a personal note, I live in SoCal. During the last big earthquake, the only electronics of mine that did not survive the fall were Sony. Even the Panasonics survived, how weak is that?