The DVD war: Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD

[zombie]

http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/07/tech...ex.htm?cnn=yes

Excerpts from the article:

You'll thrill to the dazzling video and sound quality of the new high-definition DVD formats. You'll laugh out loud at the absurdity of another video format war, à la Betamax vs. VHS. You'll cry if you spend $500 or $1,000 or more on a new player and new movie discs that are doomed to be obsolete in a year or two. It's the feel-confused movie of the summer. It's ... Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD!

LOL!

There are initial technical glitches in both formats (Toshiba released a software patch too late to be tested for this experiment). If we had to choose tonight, we'd go with Blu-ray and hope we were not stuck with a dead-end format. But we don't have to choose tonight. Instead, we'll download some videos over the Internet from YouTube.com. Idea for my next great experiment: Creating high-definition video downloads over broadband that don't use either Blu-ray or HD-DVD. That's a scary idea for the movie and electronics companies, isn't it? That they have wasted all this money and effort on format standards that no one will care about? (Fade out to maniacal laughter.)