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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 take it with me from one machine to another in my house. I’m not in a rush, however. One of our Community members sent in the following top five list, of reasons to not rush out to buy a Blu-Ray drive.
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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:
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 on torrenting each movie, but there are some who find this news upsetting. One group who has already shown this may effect them is HD-DVD themselves.
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 to come.
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 on a Panasonic TV that’s only good through 720p. No matter, that’s not the point of why I’m writing this post.
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 by NINE again – insert constant D – bring SEVEN digits into the equation – add FOUR thousand – screen it through E – subtract THREE – multiply by FIVE – make drones with the queen B – watch a movie in three D – dip EIGHT of those results in chocolate – think it over FOUR times – carry the ONE – remember that FIVE is still alive – one number after SIX – C is for cookie – take back FIVE – add SEX – subtract THREE – dream of FIVE more numbers – take that result and multiply it by SIX – divide that by EIGHT – divide that again by second EIGHT – then add it to twice the Speed of Light – and repeat it ZERO times?
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 from PC World. One is a hardware-centric solution:
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