So I am going to give up on predicting/caring about Blu-Ray Disc or HD DVD. Seriously.

Both have advantages over one another, but neither really has the advantage needed for “a new era.” On paper BD looks better. Both are far too expensive right now. I don’t have a TV that would really take advantage of either.

The competition for studios is really neck and neck, which is a bad thing. You have Hollywood split down the middle and they are going to lose because of it. This reminds me of the PS2 vs. Xbox… only with movies, which video consumers aren’t use to. They just wait for one to die and pick the survivor like a twisted knife fight. It is really a lose, lose situation for everyone but the long term winner, but even then… there will be casualties because of it.

I just did a bit of research to quench my hunger for information on Wikipedia and it leads me to head aches and confusion. I will just wait for the HVD to get finished and go with that. 3.9 terabytes is a lot. If anything I will probably go with the PS3 as the Fisher Price “my first HD era movie viewer” when I finally/eventually have a HD TV.

I honestly don’t think up-converted standard DVDs look that bad on HD TVs.