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HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray - Is It All in the Name?
Z asks: "As most of you are aware, the dawn of the nex-gen format wars is fully upon us. We have all talked about it until we are Blu in the face, but there is one simple, yet important topic I have yet to see discussed. What is in a name? Now, bear with me for a second here while I explain. As much as we geeks would like to believe it, we are not going to be the ones who decide which format wins out in the end; consumers are. Now, we all know people hate change. Users already know what DVD is, and most would like to think they understand HD. But Blu-Ray? Your average Joe only wants one thing when it comes to new technology, a feeling of comfort and understanding; something I think Blu-Ray is going to have a hard time giving them. I can't help but wonder, is HD-DVD going to win out simply because people are going to be more familiar with the name? "
The "Digital" topic is for posts related to the late, great Digital Equpiment Company, the manufacturer of machines such as the PDP-11 which served as the original Unix hosts and as nodes for much of the early Internet. (Unix was developed on DEC's PDP-7, but it was running on a PDP-11 when it was first named Unix.) They were also responsible for the VAX, and its successor the 64-bit Alpha architecture. The icon for the topic is their old corporate logo. (DEC was bought out by Compaq, which was itself bought out by HP, which now supports legacy DEC products such as the VMS operating system.) Anyone in this line of work over the age of 35 or so ought to know who they are.
The category is obviously not for random business issues in the digital media field.
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