In alt.tv.tech.hdtv Tom Payne wrote:
| In alt.home-theater.misc John Carrier wrote:
| [...]
|> Most home theaters aren't calibrated and most consumers aren't videophiles.
|> I suspect that either HD or B/R will be superior to anything off air. The
|> market itself will determine the best value, neither politics nor marketing.
|
| Hmmmmm. What makes you think that the "market itself" isn't
| determined by "politics or marketing."

Too often "the free market" is in fact manipulated by such politics or
marketing efforts by corporations. Marketing is certainly an unavoidable
element of it. But marketing should be limited to the competing side
stating their cases (in a glitzy way, I guess). Things like corporate
backroom deals to promote exclusivity and lock-in should be totally
prohibited. An aanlogy case exists with certain cellphone makers that
make their cellphones to only work on certain providers (but do not mix
this up with cellphones that are paid for through a service plan, though
that should only be an option, not the only way to get one).


| Some of my friends believe that as the porn industry goes, so goes the
| market, and they've gone HD-DVD. But so far it's not clear that's how
| the industry is going.
|
| I believe that the battle will be won on something that absurd, but ...

Maybe it will. OTOH, if Microsoft or Toshiba paid off the porn industry
people to make that decision, then that would be wrong.

Decisions by corporations to go with one, or the other (or both, or neither),
should be made indepently, and most certainly not through payoffs.

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