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Are You Ready for Blu-Ray DVD?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Now that the Format War is over (for now at least), I realize I will have to buy myself a Blu-Ray drive one of these days. When I do buy one, it will be an external USB drive, so I can [...]
Blu-ray Wins: HD DVD is Dead
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Up until recently, there was a huge high-definition format war in relation to DVDs. We had HD DVD vs. Blu-ray. Now… HD DVD has gone the way of the Dodo Bird. Nick is a community member who wrote in: Yeah I [...]
Warner Chooses Blu-ray Over HD-DVD
Warner Bros. Entertainment has just announced that it will be going Blu-ray exclusive for all of its movies starting in May. Currently Warner releases on both Blu-ray and HD-DVD and it should be interesting to see how the market adapts. Now most people (by people, I mean geeks) don’t care too much and will continue [...]
HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray vs. Downloading
Click Image to Play Video http://live.pirillo.com/ – Bwana in the chatroom asks which format is going to win: HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, or Downloading? The chatroom widely agrees that downloading content is the way of the future, but there’s no doubt that HD-DVD and Blu-Ray will be fighting it out int he format war for some time [...]
Barkis Bittern and Leo Laporte
Okay, I’m not crazy. Really. I was installing my Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive this evening, testing the new setup with my Corpse Bride DVD. The image quality, for whatever it’s worth, is absolutely stellar – even though I’m only connected through a classic component video connection (as opposed to the new Xbox 360 HDMI cable [...]
Math Test
What happens if you take ZERO – divide it by NINE – multiply that product by the variable F – take that result and subtract NINE from it – add that ONE number to the square root of another ONE – take ZERO accountability – mix in TWO more random numbers – multiply those factors [...]
High Definition DVD Wars
I’m trying to stay out of this argument. I’ve only seen a few HD-DVDs in person, and… the differences between a high definition DVD and a “regular” DVD are largely imperceptible. At least, according to my eyes. Well, until a single playback option is ubiquitous, it simply doesn’t matter. Consider these two recent news articles [...]
