Re: Upcoming & future Xbox 360 motherboard / chipset revisions are: Jasper, Opus and Valhalla - The Valhalla to have 65 or 45 nm combined CPU-GPU in 2009

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nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> krw wrote:
> 
> > 
> > They content producers wanted to make more money.  They have no 
> > horse in the media race.
> >
> 
> Absolutely
> 
> Reminds me of the old Beta - VHS battle back in the stone age.
> Beta was the superior format. VHS was the discount warehouse cash
> cow. You can still buy VHS.

Beta's superiority is quite arguable.  In the most im****tant ways, 
VHS was superior.  The market spoke, and loudly.

> The producers want to make as much as they can. The guy in
> Butt****hs is going to buy the cheapest machine that works in
> his trailer.

A lot of that, but remember, blank tapes were $20+ each.  A two-hour 
VHS tape would record a movie.  A one-hour Beta wouldn't.

> Speaking of the stone age and cables. They used to charge over
> $80.00 for the old Centronics printer cable in the computer
> stores. The cables were under $5.00 wholesale. Now there was
> a cash cow. Mind you Bubba didn't get a printer in his trailer
> for a long time after that.

I'm convinced the "super stores" make $0 on electronics, then make 
up for it with the useless warranty and obsceney priced cables.

-- 
Keith