OK, I think we can call it over. Blu-Ray wins.
Netflix, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart have all announced that they will cease to support HD-DVD as a viable format in the near future.I myself bought a Playstation 3 about two weeks ago after learning that it supports certain streaming media protocols that I happen to use. Between the Blu-Ray movies, the support for streaming video, photos, and music, and the PS3 games, it is such a great all-around entertainment box that I'm a little stunned that it was made by Sony. Too bad it isn't backwards compatible with the PS2 games . . . .
Also, too bad that the format we're stuck with has such a dumb name. Better than "Betamax," I suppose, but still not great.
Labels: technology, video games
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Since I'm still perfectly happy with vanilla DVDs, the name was the only reason I was (casually) rooting for one over the other. "HD-DVD" sounds like something consumers can get behind: Like DVD, but better. "Blu-Ray" sounds like a prototype, or a technical standard that the user technology -- something with a name like "HD-DVD" -- would be built on.
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