The Format Wars: As Epic as it Sounds
unknown wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
This just in: the High-Definition format wars are officially over, and HD-DVD is dead. In related news: the world still doesn’t care.
The “Format War” is the name that is being perpetuated by Blu-Ray (Sony) and HD-DVD (Toshiba) to make it seem like their formats are actually battling over something important. This notion is interesting in the fact that people will throw down the word “war” on anything to make it seem more dramatic. Ladies and gentleman, people go to war. Countries go to war. High-definition movie players? Not so much.
If you don’t know the details of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, the two formats trying to push the limits of high-definition…well, that’s pretty normal, actually. Besides those commercials on TV that advertise these formats by showing “high definition” images that look identical to normal television, there has not been much of an effort to educate people about these new movie […]
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