HD-DVD or Blu-Ray?
A couple of weeks ago, PC and Pixel ran this comic:
It highlights how the gadget industry makes me feel about the HD Vs. Blu-Ray choice. Both standards are completely unviewable on my “old fashioned” television. My “measly” 27 inch screen isn’t 1080p and it isn’t even digital, so why should I care?
I like to imagine this scenario in heaven. If you have ANY answer to the HD or Blu-Ray question, they send you back. If you say, “Aw man, I didn’t go with either. After the BetaMax vs. VHS fiasco, I decided I wasn’t going to upgrade,” they let you straight into heaven.
Looks like a lot of people are feeling like me:
At an industry conference last week, representatives from Microsoft (HD DVD), Sony and Pioneer (Blu-ray), sniped at each other over the number of copies of 300 sold on each format. Blu-ray claims its version of the disc outsold HD DVD’s by a margin of two to one in the first week. The breakdown was actually 65 percent Blu-ray, 35 percent HD DVD, according to a Warner Bros. representative.
But only when you consider that the studio sold more than 5 million copies of 300 on standard DVD does it become clear that all this posturing is over less than 5 percent of sales. On the hardware side, DisplaySearch said 5 percent of sales of standalone DVD players in September were either HD DVD or Blu-ray.
HD Vs. Blu-Ray seems like a moot point. I bet the industry sidesteps BOTH formats and goes strictly download. The fact that industry’s biggest players are feuding about this just goes to show how out of the loop they are.