All is good and fair in comparing the differences between disc technologies. Blu-ray has A and B, HD-DVD has X and Y. Great. However, the driver for technology adoption is in my view greatly dependent on content.
If the studios release a movie in Blu-ray (as Sony's Columbia certainly will attempt to), the consumers will have a compelling reason to upgrade. I know I would - particularly if it cost me something like $200 to buy the player in the local supermarket, while I'm doing my grocery shopping. Or even better, I may already have a player when the shiny PS3 makes its way into my TV cabinet.
I don't particularly care about the quality improvement - I still sometimes watch DivX movies where the quality is VHS'ish at best. It's OK, good enough. DVD is good enough, SVCD is good enough, DivX is good enough, I really don't mind.
But I guess to reiterate the point, content is king.
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I think you mean the Mozilla Corporation has some paid employees - most Mozilla Foundation employees shifted there not so long ago.
All is good and fair in comparing the differences between disc technologies. Blu-ray has A and B, HD-DVD has X and Y. Great. However, the driver for technology adoption is in my view greatly dependent on content.
If the studios release a movie in Blu-ray (as Sony's Columbia certainly will attempt to), the consumers will have a compelling reason to upgrade. I know I would - particularly if it cost me something like $200 to buy the player in the local supermarket, while I'm doing my grocery shopping. Or even better, I may already have a player when the shiny PS3 makes its way into my TV cabinet.
I don't particularly care about the quality improvement - I still sometimes watch DivX movies where the quality is VHS'ish at best. It's OK, good enough. DVD is good enough, SVCD is good enough, DivX is good enough, I really don't mind.
But I guess to reiterate the point, content is king.