Sunday, February 17, 2008
I am lucky I didn't buy that 360 HD DVD kit!
Sunday, February 17, 2008 
Toshiba has officially pulled the plug on HD DVD, essentially killing the format all-together. Regular DVDs are going anywhere anytime soon, but I was close to getting a 360 HD DVD kit just because I already had the 360 (I didn't go with the PS3).
I am so lucky that I didn't buy that kit, because I would just have a lump of ugly hardware to recycle now. I have experience with Blu-Ray... back then it took about a minute to boot the box (with the obligatory hourglass icon), maybe those times have come down with better custom Linux kernels. I imagine M$ will come out with a Blu-Ray player sometime soon after it can convince itself to stop supporting HD DVD. Then I might get one that way.
I am so lucky that I didn't buy that kit, because I would just have a lump of ugly hardware to recycle now. I have experience with Blu-Ray... back then it took about a minute to boot the box (with the obligatory hourglass icon), maybe those times have come down with better custom Linux kernels. I imagine M$ will come out with a Blu-Ray player sometime soon after it can convince itself to stop supporting HD DVD. Then I might get one that way.
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Kenneth said...“Personally it seems like both technologies were dead on arrival, since storage seems not to be shifting to remote or device based.
Apple's release of HD download rentals and purchases are somewhat indicative of what is to come. There current model and offering is slightly flawed, but it is one of those you must crawl before you run scenarios.”
