LOL @ HD-DVD

[Diff-chan]

Well then, have fun with the nagging thought living in the deep recesses of your brain that someday when you exit the house and accidentally leave your debit card behind you will hand a cashier a $10 bill, and in return recieve change along the lines of a $2 bill, 8 nickles, 5 dimes, 12 pennies, a 50 cent piece, 2 quarters, 3 paperclips, and an empty Pez dispenser because your wacky state's sales tax somehow involves multiplying the price of the item by the square root of -1 and dividing by pi.

My Delaware brain, on the other hand, will remain at ease.

N is your tax rate (assume its under 10%, which I think 48 or 49 states are).

X is the price tag

Price = X*(1.0N)

[Razor Ramon]

Math kills braincells.

[Bacon McShig]

Fatality!

[Tommy Tallarico]

http://www.cnet.com.au/desktops/dvdb...0091720,00.htm

LOL @ BLU-RAY!

headline: "First Blu-ray disc drive won’t play Blu-ray movies"

I loled for days.

[Cheebs]

N is your tax rate (assume its under 10%, which I think 48 or 49 states are).

X is the price tag

Price = X*(1.0N)

Compared to paying in Delaware:

Price = Price.



pwnd by the first state.

[Diff-chan]

pwnd by the worst state.

Yep.

[TobalRox]

As I mentioned in the HD-DVD thread (for those that care and didn't see it)... Once Sony can finally get their shit together and get dual layer Blu-Ray discs working, they will NOT play on the current Samsung player... so you paid $1000 for a player that will soon be worthless (Even sooner than when the format fails).

[Dolemite]

Sony Delays Blu-ray Players Until October

Sony now plans to release a Blu-ray high-definition DVD player in the U.S. in October and a combination recorder-player in Japan later in the year, the company announced in Tokyo today (Tuesday). The delay will give Toshiba's rival HD-DVD player a six-month headstart over Sony. Samsung released a Blu-ray player in the U.S. in June, but few have turned up on retailers' shelves. Kiyoshi Nishitani, the Sony executive who oversees Sony's Blu-ray business, declined to state how much Sony's player will cost. The battle between Sony and Toshiba's incompatible formats is likely to keep sales for both down, analysts said. "DVD sales will go down this year because consumers know about high definition but they don't know which format to buy," Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings told today's Los Angeles Times. "The problem with picking sides is that creates consumer anxiety, and so they'll just stop buying, period, or slow down their buying."

[Shin Johnpv]

sony needs to just hand the market over to HD-DVD openly so we can have one format now

instead of this "how many times can we fuck up our launch of the player and still have studios on our side, while the consumers tell us to fuck off game"

[Diff-chan]

Blu-Ray is such a pile of dog shit.

We need Andy, StriderKyo, and marwan to come into this thread and tell us how awesome it is.