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Video Games and the Hi-Def Format Wars
Pika the Mad writes "Reuters has a concise but interesting article up about how video games will help decide the format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD. According to industry analysts "What Sony and Microsoft decide to announce publicly or to dealers at E3 next week will be key." So this year's E3 could very well be a deciding factor in how you view your movie library for years to come."
So i doubt it will have much of an impact on me.
Though i might upgrade to one of them fancy color tvs i keep hearing about sometime this summer.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I can't see it improving Jet Set Willy on my spectrum emulator, unless it makes the chunky pixels sharper...
Task Mangler
By buying a Nintendo Wii-volution.
Be vewy, vewy qwiet, we'ah hunting video fawmats. Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh!
KFG
This was the first month I bought a game on DVD format instead of the 6 CD package. For the past year they've been charging a *premium* for the DVD packaging.
Who REALLY CARES what format the consoles select? It's a closed system most certainly DRM'd to the nuts. It'll be at least five years (after they make up their minds) before I see any games in a hi-def DVD packaging.
You'll have to see which side AOL is on.
Will there even be time for a format war? The rate things have been going these days I'll be buying a 24x BluRay-RW/HDDVD-RW/DL DVD+-RW/CDRW compatible burner for £30 in a few years, with low-end dual format players going for about £20.
The only technical difficulty will be how they'll fit all the logos on the tray door