Comments on: DVD? Your papers, bitte!

By: Tim Gibbons

Tim Gibbons — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:45:00 +0000

And the ridiculousness of multiple regions is nuts. It’s kind of like what we’re seeing right now with the HD-DVD vs BlueRay – and some companies are bringing out players that play both.

By: Tim Gibbons

Tim Gibbons — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:43:00 +0000

Thanks for your enthusiasm for Curb! Much appreciated…!

By: Dave Lance

Dave Lance — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:52:00 +0000

Now to respond to your post… The need for standardization across platforms is paramount to the success of everything. One language. One set of laws. One universal platform upon which everyone can play on a level field. No Microsoft vs. Apple vs. Unix. No more of that “Speak French or get out” vacation heartburn. None of the measured hinerances to DVD pirating across national boundries which is probably at the heart of the decision to create the five DVD divisions. Without them, of course, Sony would be denied the opportunity to to force your team (and every international purveyor of DVD media) to buy five different DVD players…

Ayn Rand and her beloved Captialism won. Hence this kind of planned obsolescence, inconvenience, highway robbery, “where there is confusion there is profit”, George W., gouging nonsense is part of the overall package. Somewhere, there is a angry white man trying to figure out how to make you buy six DVD players.

We’re stuck with it for the moment, at least until some MIT kid comes up with a way to submit and view all those video entrees via the web (with the same high definition and quality as DVD). By my calculations, that ought to happen sometime next week.

By: Dave Lance

Dave Lance — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:33:00 +0000

One of my favorite bits from Seinfeld was when George and Jerry were pitching their idea about “nothing” to NBC, and George explained that people would watch it because it’s on t.v. (To which the network exec, played by Bob Balaban, responds with pitch perfect timing – “Not yet.”) My wife and I can’t get enough of Curb. If you just aimed a camera at Larry David and ran it 24/7 (Truman Show style), I would probably stay tuned and glued – just because it’s there, and because I find LD’s humor so over the top entertaining…