Blue-Ray Wins All Fronts
By ariel in Uncategorized, Entertainment, Smut Advertising, Tech, Money, Movies, Advertising, media, Blue Ray, HD DVD, Amazon, Toshiba, Sony Playstation, Thief on February 20 2008
OK, so here is the story: About a year ago we got robbed. That’s a long and sad story, involving an insurance company that gladly took our money when we got the policy, but for various reasons would not pay for our stolen stuff. But let’s not talk about it now. The kind thief who visited our apartment that night did not steal our DVD, but in order to make sure he has the right equipment for the things he did stole, he took away our remote controls, all of them.
So after a few months of running to the TV stand to pause, stop, or fast forward (and after we moved from that place thank God,) and since the device wasn’t doing a great job playing movies, we decided it’s time to get a new one. When we got to the store we had three options: To get a standard DVD (a known brand cost about $50 back then,) a Blue Ray machine (About $350,) or for $75 we could get an HD-DVD device. We got the last one. Both were new technologies, both offered amazing quality. Back then we couldn’t tell which one will dominate the market. Now we know. A couple of days ago, Toshiba announced that it will abandon its HD-DVD format. Now we learn that Amazon.com will stop selling HD-DVD and will side with Blue-Ray. Cnet News reports that Peter Faricy, Amazon’s vice president of movies and music, said in a statement from the company: “The high-definition landscape is rapidly changing, and consumers are looking for guidance on how to make the best high-definition buying decisions, our customers have clearly voiced their support for the Blue-ray format.”
Also, the presence of the format in the popular Sony Playstation 3 game console, and Blockbuster early siding with it, put a lot of weight on the preference to go Blue.
I’m not too sorry for buying the DVD I have now, I prefer it this way on buying a Blue-Ray and then the HD-DVD would come on top. Then I would have lost a lot more… I will buy a Blue-Ray DVD, but not today.
