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DVD Forum Approves HD-DVD Standard
An anonymous reader writes "Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. said Friday that the DVD Forum, an international association of electronics makers and movie studios, has approved the two Japanese companies' standard for next-generation DVDs. It has
always annoyed me that DVDs are not the same top resolutions as High Definition TV. Maybe this will fix it." Well, better get to work rebuying your entire video collection, again.
Don't worry, when CMDRTACO dupes this story tomorrow, he'll print something like, "Well, at least my backwards compatible DVDs aren't affected by the new player's DRM!"
I really hate Dan Patrick.
I thought that several years ago, which is why my DVD collection is so small. I rarely watch a film enough times to warrant buying it. I guess I'm just not enamoured enough with Hollywood's offerings.
A few years back a friend of mine bought in to the whole DivX thing (no, not that video codec that crashes your Windows box). He loved it. For the price of a rental, he got to keep the disc. If for any reason he decided to watch something again, then it was cheaper and easier to use the pay per use (well, IIRC it was). He had a big collection of discs he wouldn't have considered buying normally due to the retail prices. Too bad DivX died - I guess CompUSA wasn't a big enough company to push it through.