It seems that everyday brings new, worse news for the HD-DVD format. Who's left that's producing HD-DVD content other that Universal? OK, its not over, there is still a chance that HD-DVD will survive. But, frankly, why did there need to be a format war?
Did anybody learn anything from Beta-Max? The real losers in the war are the people that bought the wrong format. That includes the Grey Hair Geek! How could HD-DVD lose? It was cheaper to produce, the sound and video quality were on a par or better than Blu-Ray. The HD-DVD player was cheaper. And Blu-Ray is produced by Sony, the company that brought you the root kit controversy, where they put nasty, potentially dangerous software on your computer.
But, long live money. Just give it to the greedy studios, by the bag full. Give it to the retailers. And pretty soon you got the market and the consumer is screwed. Ah well.
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