The Blu-Ray and HD DVD Stupidity. When will it end?
Reading Douglas Crockford’s Format War post reminded me of how hopeful I was last Fall. I was nearly certain that the Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD format war would have been settled by Giftmas, so that we could just buy the winning format and go on with life.
Instead, we’re stuck with the uncertainty of not knowing who will win. Beta or VHS? Err, I mean “Blu-Ray or HD-DVD?” Why must we endure this stupidity again?
I’m content to sit on the sidelines, impatiently, waiting for the scales to finally tip so far in one direction that we have a clear winner. Then it’ll be time to buy a nice cheap player and finally put my HD TV to good use.
Or maybe it’ll take so long that we’ll bypass the discs altogether and stream the HD video on-line from Netflix, Amazon, or whoever.
That wouldn’t be half bad either.
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