Rest In Peace, HD-DVD
Way back when in the VCR war between Betamax and VHS standards, consumers picked VHS’s low price over Betamax’s video quality. Now another war has come to an end. But it’s not the consumers who picked what was best for them.
It’s official. Tobshiba has announced that it will stop producing the best contender in the high definition DVD player war, HD-DVD. Blu-ray won. The video quality was the same on both players so this wasn’t never an issue. But, in the end, all the issues that were important to consumers didn’t matter any way. Never mind that HD-DVD was the cheapest, had the best audio quality, and was, technologically, the most stable; making it the best of the two high def players. Sony’s buggy copy protection technology won the pocket books of the movie studios, who, in turn, leaned on businesses — HARD. Blu-ray won. We consumers lost.
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well that sux… seeing as how i just bought me the adapter for my xbox and a couple HD DVDs… hopefully ill be able to get some other ones for cheap… :/
I find it interesting that you can buy HD Ready TVs and already see some HD stuff on TV and now it will be Blue Ray? Sounds confusing to me. You can only properly appreciate your HD-TV if you have a blue-ray DVD? great
I wonder if the cracking of HD DVD’s before blu ray had anything to do with the big studio’s going blu ray?
hello Drop! I recently learned that Microsoft is going to discontinue their HD-DVD add-on to the Xbox. They don’t have blu-ray replacement yet.
hello Free! That’s a good question. I know blu-ray has been hacked as well. But Sony owns more movie studios than Toshiba so I think that was the major factor. And, just announced, blu-ray is going to release their next version of blu-ray to try and fix many majors bugs that never plagued HD-DVD.
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