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February 24, 2008
It’s old news… but as you know HD-DVD is officially dead.
I am disappointed, not for a really good “geek” esq reason, but becuase Blue Ray sounds stupid… and doesn’t in the least indicate what the heck it does..
The biggest reason, is that I hate SONY… I used to be a big huge fan of Sony, and let’s face it, back in the day Sony really had it going on. Without them, we wouldn’t have portable devices, and lots of other neat little gadgets. But the 80’s are over… and sony turned into a company that installs trojans on your computer when you put their CD’s in your PC (that trojan of course was designed to steal your information and give (sell) to their thrid party advertisers… real nice).
Another reason why it annoys me that they “won” the format wars is one of the reasons why they won. The DRM on BlueRay is much more convoluted then the HD format was… It will be broken of course, but any company that tries to prevent free access aggravates me.
Now, Toshiba has bowed out gracefully and discontinued anything and every thing HD-DVD… and I respect that.. and as a plus HD-DVD players are REALLY cheap… So I will probably buy one, for no other reason then to upscale my standard DVD’s, but for the future… it is all about HD movies from Apple TV….
Sony - BITE me.. I am not buying blue ray… so deal with it…
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