Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD: Stop the madness!

I'm not sure who's winning or whether a draw has been declared in the battle between the two high-definition DVD formats Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. In fact, I don't care. At all. Just two highly-publicized formats, specked out by jousting technological corporate behemoths, even while a staggering number of compatibility problems still exist between standard DVDs and the DVD players on which they are supposed to be able to be read. Mo' storage, mo' sound clarity, higher video resolution... mo' problems!

Look, if the next hot thing after not-always-readable, scratchable, spinning discs is supposed to be more not-always-readable, scratchable, spinning discs, count me right the eff out.

This is ridiculous. I'm waiting for the durable, non-scratchable, non-spinning movies on modified read-only thumb drives. Yeah, like those things you stick into a USB port on your PC. Haven't these tech geniuses figured out that this would be a much better idea? Maybe they already did, and they're waiting for millions of Americans to re-buy all their favorite movies on the clunky high-definition discs, before they go to battle again with their respective movie-on-a-thumb-drive formats.

It's inevitable, so I'll just wait. You heard it here first.

Hollywood blows.

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