Death of a format: The grief process.

[Kayne314]

We all go through several stages of grief when faced with a death. Even for the death of a beloved format like HD DVD.

All the articles that have been coming out saying:

" Blu-ray's victory doesn't matter because downloads will soon be here."

or

"To hell with Sony. I'll never buy their product. Sony = Evil"

or

" The consumer didn't choose, The studios did, boycott Blu-ray."

or even the few

" HD DVD will still be around 10 years from now! Blu-ray could still die!"

All of these fall into one of the stages of grief. Eventually they will come to the final stage, acceptance.

We just have to wait it out! Grieving takes time.

Until then, all we can say to them is "there, there. This too shall pass."...

...and be glad it is them, not us, going through it.