This isn’t a A\/B comparison – I don’t currently have the ability to play either format.\u00a0 I’ve been stalling for a few reasons, but its been getting a lot more tempting to leap in on one, or the other, or both formats.<\/p>\n
This posting was prompted by the Engadget post Gartner: Blu-ray to win in 2008, HD DVD price cuts are “useless resistance”<\/a>.\u00a0 My friend Matt claimed last week that the war was won:<\/p>\n “Some might say that Warner Bros. pre-CES annoucement of dropping HD-DVD was the tipping point, but true believers will recognize that Matt’s January 24th purchase of a PS3 and several Blu-Ray titles as the historic event.” – Matt<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There are some crazy prices on HD-DVD players now, Futureshop has the Toshiba HD-DVD A3<\/a> for $148.99.\u00a0 I’m almost kicking myself for picking up the Oppo 980 (should be at the post office waiting for me) – but the A3, while it is apparently a very good upconverting player – still is fairly slow at layer changes etc. \u00a0 If it didn’t look like the format war was winding down, the HD-DVD support would be a lot more tempting – but as it is, it would be a severely underused facility of the player.<\/p>\n It is my opinion that Sony has pretty much bet the company on Blu-ray.\u00a0 2007 didn’t seem like a great year for Sony, and I do strongly suspect that things like the Warner CES announcement<\/a> came along with some cash from Sony.\u00a0 Hopefully their well won’t run dry before the format debate is over.<\/p>\n I guess I’m still firmly in the ‘wait and see’ camp, let’s see how long I can stall – my prediction is that I’ll have one or both before the end of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This isn’t a A\/B comparison – I don’t currently have the ability to play either format.\u00a0 I’ve been stalling for a few reasons, but its been getting a lot more tempting to leap in on one, or the other, or both formats. This posting was prompted by the Engadget post Gartner: Blu-ray to win in … Continue reading “The Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD “War””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soap-box"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}