Some interesting happenings in Australia

[pretender2j]

After the fairly recent release of Blu-Ray to the Australian market there has been some minor coverage of "the replacement of DVD". Now this does not reflect my opinion nor am I in favour of this type of reporting, but there is a marked lack of coverage of anything to do with HD-DVD while Blu-Ray is the 'talk of the town' so to speak.

A bit over an hour ago I finished watching a five minute segment on Channel 9's 'A Current Affair' and they did not even mention HD-DVD. They were extremly complementory of Blu-Ray talking about it's superior picture quality. Which was stated as having 6 times more pixels than DVD. They also talked about better sound and so on.

There was a report on Channel 10's 5pm News on the day before the official release of Blu-Ray in Australia (I think this was early October). This report talked up Blu-ray's advantages and then at the end the reporter made a quick remark that there was a competing format called HD-DVD and left it at that.

One part of of me loves this and I'm glad that Blu-Ray is getting most if not all the publicity. But then I have to remind myself that the media should not present facts in a way that swings people to one side of discusion/argument. And then I remind myself that in the end people still have to go to a shop and the sales people will talkup which ever format they/the company see is the best, or makes them the best profit margin. And then I think maybe people will make up there own minds in the end. I'm known to give people less credit than they deserve when it comes to intelligence, so maybe I'm completely wrong and people will do whatever they feel.

Confused, JB