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Next DVD Format War Still Wide Open
An anonymous reader writes "Despite the wishes of partisan players like Sony and Toshiba, many consumer electronics manufacturers are opting to support both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs in upcoming media players." From the article: "Consumer electronics maker LG Electronics and PC maker Fujitsu-Siemens both said on Thursday they would keep their options open after computer giant Hewlett-Packard said last month it would back HD DVD as well as Blu-ray. Bjorn Sehrm, senior director Digital Home of Fujitsu-Siemens, told Reuters: 'We are planning to put both in. We don't take a stand in that fight, and actually we're very sorry that fight is happening.'
These stories of trying to give the impression that there is anything left to the battle between BluRay and the deadend HD-DVD format are pointless.
It's over.
It's been over for months.
There is nothing that will bring HD-DVD back to life.
Sony is about to sell between 100-150 million BluRay players for 399-349 and less over the next five years.
The Xbox 360 is effectively dead and really had little chance to help save HD-DVD with its add on package.
Let's move on. Any talk of HD-DVD is a waste of everyone's time.
I sure as hell am not going to buy a new monitor and video card to support Vista
What. The. Fuck. Are. You. Talking. About.
Get a life and stop believing everything that d!gg.com and Sl@shdot sell you.
"Add in the delay of the PS3"
Bzzzttt!
"at double the price of HD-DVD."
Bzzzttt!
What a fucking dunce. Go away!!!
When you consider that the disks are locked to the player in one of the formats, your Divx comments are pretty relevant.
Say you buy 20 Blu Ray disks and your player goes belly up-- or you decide to get a new better player.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.