The HD Rants - 1 - The Sony Rant (HD Version)

[michele11804]

Goddamn, right on!

[IDaCashman]

As soon as nobody is talking about the Root Kit, the PSN Hacking happens. Sony, as awesome as a company they are, just can't seem to avoid trouble sometimes, eh?

[CanucksAreBiWinning]

xbox is better than ps3 ps3 is garbage u mad fanboy

[Zaranyzerak]

@CanucksAreBiWinning Wrong. And you're the only fanboy I see here.

[MichaelSelleGBPFAN]

@CanucksAreBiWinning you are retarded zaranyserak is right and so am i the ps3 is better because it uses bluray 50 gb discs vs. 8.5 gb discs do the math more cut scenes more everything when the wii u comes out it will be the best because it is supposed to have better graphics and will use bluray type discs

[cmkofan]

@CanucksAreBiWinning xbox better than ps3? in which way?

[Jorgie0101]

Sony Mini-disk players were awesome though! :)

[JtMills]

The only thing I hate about Sony is their movies. They should stay out of that department. The Spider-Man movies (only 2 was great), Resident Evil movies, etc. Yeah, they just are terrible at adapting things.

[KaraLVRogueLZ]

i think Sean rocks i consider him a friend even though i never met him rock on Sean. hey do you have the Appleseed movies there good i have the sequell.

[desertman123]

personally i love sony to death, my laptop is a vaio, my tv is a bravia, my hometheater is an HTSS-2000, i have a PS1,2,3 and PSP

[CountChupulla]

i do enjoy the blus that are rays, i miss the hddvd. though, red is too loud. blue is more calmer on the eyes. easy to see why hdvdvd lost.

nice sony rant.

[john6380]

2:18 sounds like a sony commercial. lol.

[sinning1966]

Are you true when you say 180 companies shared the innovation of the Blu-ray disc?

What about Toshiba left-alone doing his HD-DVD to compete?

[Zaranyzerak]

Yes. 178 companies, to be exact. There are 18 companies on the board of directors for the BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association), 60 contributors and 96 members. Look up "BDA" on wikipedia for a quick rundown of all the companies involved.

HD-DVD was primarily developed by Toshiba and NEC, while Sanyo was part of the HD-DVD Promotion Group as well. There were an additional 130 general and associate members, but I'm not clear on if these were other companies or individuals with a vested interest.

[sinning1966]

There was Microsoft associated with Toshiba's HD-DVD? Right?

[Zaranyzerak]

Well, they chose to go with HD-DVD as the add-on for the 360, but beyond that they didn't have anything to do with the development that I'm aware of. The popular belief is that the main reason they went with HD-DVD instead of Blu-ray was simply because Sony wasn't involved with it. Which was a very poor move on their part, imo. The VC-1 codec was developed by Microsoft, and was used on both HD-DVD and is currently used for many Blu-ray titles.

[sinning1966]

I never bashed Sony and in Montreal where I live now, people support and respect Sony products (like for example choosing PS3 rather than XBOX 360.)

But I still support that the first XBOX was better than the PS2 ;-).

[Zaranyzerak]

Yes. 178 companies, to be exact. There are 18 companies on the board of directors for the BDA (Blu-ray Disc Association), 60 contributors and 96 members. Look up "BDA" on wikipedia for a quick rundown of all the companies involved.

HD-DVD was primarily developed by Toshiba and NEC, while Sanyo was part of the HD-DVD Promotion Group as well. There were an additional 130 general and associate members, but I'm not clear on if these were other companies or individuals with a vested interest.

[sinning1966]

And BTW, the 2 failed format you've mentionned are not really (failed) it's just it didn't catch because better technology was on the way, not because these 2 were pieces of shit. I had a 1980 Sanyo Beta and even if the image was shittier than VHS, the machine ifself had some crazy features VHS didnt have (video camera ports, audio line in, voice dubbing on the Beta tape in the machine). It was crazy, not "failed".

[Zaranyzerak]

Actually, I owned several VHS machines that had all the features you just described...

[sinning1966]

Oh well.. didn't know that. TY.

WEV, the second failed format, the Minidisc, was kind of an innovative music player for 1994. However, usual music stores wouldn't sell much Minidiscs albums because of it's tiny booklets and tiny song names written on them. This is where miniaturization became more inconvenient and MDs disappeared.

Now take it like this, imagine MDs would be the replacement for all old 45rpm singles. How amazing it would be? It's not "failed" it's ... crazy lol.

[sinning1966]

BTW again (sorry for pop-upping you my messages all over your channel), can you tell me which VHS did have an handle onto it + camera port so that you can bring it with you while filming so it had direct Beta tape transfer? I'm curious to know.

[Zaranyzerak]

I don't remember the exact model numbers, but there were a few models from RCA in the early 80's (I owned two of them) that were dockable and had camera ports. I still have the old video camera, which has a lengthy cable that would plug into a special port on the side of the recorder. That connector provided power to the camera, and also fed the video and audio from the camera into the VCR. All VCRs have had audio line in and out, originally mono then stereo later.

[Zaranyzerak]

The dockable portion was removable, and you could use a huge battery pack that would slide into it. I used such a setup in 1987 for a school project, but they were around since at least 1981 (which is the year the aformentioned camera I have was made). The only things Beta had over VHS was slightly better picture quality, and cleaner tracking for hi-fi audio. Otherwise, the machines had pretty muhc the same capabilities (depending on the model, of course)

[sinning1966]

Sony Camcorders are awesome. I bought last year a Sony HDR-SR11 with new AVCHD format and it's awesome. It pawns Canon. :-)

[sinning1966]

3:50 Their TVs always have rocked too. lol So true!

Also, there was one Sony TV I was dreaming about forever when I was around 11 is that 32 inch tube TV with long black rectangular speakers on the sides. We don't make TVs anymore like this.

[2Old4Toys]

D8 Camcorder? wow!

[EvolutionStratus]

Ooooooh shiny HD version.

[Geeoh19]

Yay! It's really in widescreen now.

[Zaranyzerak]

Yep! And stereo. And no longer pixelated all to hell.