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To: combjelly who wrote (229057)	3/28/2007 3:33:27 AM
From: FJB	Respond to of 275872

From a link in a post by mas on Ihub. psxextreme.com A lot of people have been waiting on the fence to see whether Blu-Ray or HD-DVD would emerge as the winner of the format war. Well, at this point the war is as good as over. Blu-Ray has won a TKO. It always had superior technical specs and much wider studio support, but there was the question of whether HD-DVD’s earlier release and initially lower price would capture enough of the market to make it the winner. But Blu-Ray has already surpassed HD-DVD in overall discs sold, and is currently outselling HD-DVD discs at about a 3:1 rate. Many neutral observers in the A/V community have called the war in favor of Blu-Ray. If you want minute-to-minute updates, you can follow what’s left of the format war at various locations on the internet: eproductwars.com hdgamedb.com These sites mainly compare Amazon sales data, but the Nielsen sales data shows the same thing: Blu-Ray discs are outselling HD-DVD by a steadily increasing margin. Many of Disney, Fox and Sony’s biggest box office movies will release exclusively on Blu-Ray in the next three months, likely pushing the sales separation between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD to a margin where many retailers will begin phasing out HD-DVD. Retailers hate a format war even more than consumers, and I suspect they’ll take the initiative to end it as quickly as possible.

To: combjelly who wrote (229057)	3/28/2007 12:22:52 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

"In addition, yield is no longer strictly a defect density issue. As the paper that neolib posted and I presume the Intel paper that Sarmad posted about." Incidentally, I was trying to educate ephud on the matter of internal device variability for years. He said it is over _my_ head... He said everything is fine with his test patterns, and everything got captured. In some sense it is true: apparently based on proper testing, Intel sells Core parts as 1.86-2.93GHz, and not as 4GHz+ parts as per some anecdotic evidence.