War is Over (if you buy Blu-Ray)
by Nate Voss, (5 comments)
Sites all over the internet are reporting that Toshiba is finally, finally pulling the plug on HD-DVD. Thank GAWD. Not that my wife is going to allow me to pick up a Blu-Ray player anytime soon, they are still far too expensive, and the movies are even more overpriced than DVDs.
It’s WIRED, though, that offers the best assessment of the situation: “This leaves Blu-Ray as the presumptive victor in the irrelevant optical disk format war. It now must face up to the real competition: the continuing success of DVD and the growing popularity of downloads, both on the internet and on-demand cable TV.”
Well, that’s all well and good. I personally still prefer to have a physical disc that I can take around, watch on my computer, watch on my TV, watch whenever the hell I want to, as opposed to say, getting a 30-day window to watch something one time over a 24-hour period that is only actually available on your newest line of products so fools like me that spend $5 on them get shafted by your staunch refusal to either refund my money or support my still-functioning fifth-generation iPod. Dicks.
Comments (5)
MADPHILL said:
Good news though for XBOX gamers. Looks like Microsoft may add a peripheral Blu-Ray now. I know their HD-DVD periph. was pretty nice/affordable.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6142137.html
Posted on February 18, 2008
Nate Voss said:
That just might make it happen at my house, Phil.
Posted on February 18, 2008
michael said:
yea - apples gotten themselves into quite a rut, in that they seem to make products better TOO fast. Like the macbook air, super sweet, but i think its a little too forward thinking almost. are we ready for a wireless world? there’s no drive in that bad boy, so you can’t just throw in Space Odyssey 2001. Has anyone heard anything on when i might be able to slip a bluray movie into my mac and have it work? i realize it doesn’t really matter on such a small screen (unless you’re fortunate enough to have one of those 30” monstrousities) but as the world switches formats, it would be nice to pop in a movie and watch it on my laptop, despite it being bluray or one of the seven HD DVDs i’ve gotten to watch with my xbox hd dvd player. ;( It was good while it lasted.
Posted on February 19, 2008
Bennett Holzworth said:
I think that is my biggest complaint about Apple. They will abandon their old customers faster than anyone for “progress”. I realize there are times to move on to new technology, but they do it every 6 months. Why don’t my old purchased games work on my new Nano? I should at least have an option to purchase a discounted new version made for the Nano. I really doubt they try very hard to incorporate new technology for their older software and hardware.
Looks like I accurately predicted that Blu Ray would win . . because of there slightly better but still horrible logo.
Thanks for the heads up about the videos not working on the 5G iPod. Will it work with the new Nano’s or do you have to own an iPod touch or Apple TV to view rented movies?
Posted on February 19, 2008
çeviri said:
nice shot.
Posted on March 8, 2008