| So why do you want it to die? |
I'd like it (the Blu-ray format) to die so that we're left with a single standard that isn't under Sony's control, and which Sony won't profit from (except for the sales of their content in the HD-DVD format).
I'd like it to die so that there's no more confusion in the marketplace over which hi-definition next-generation DVD type format consumers should support and buy. I'm tired of seeing messages in various places, or answering questions in various places, about which format player and discs people should buy. One week the answer is that HD-DVD is winning. The next week Blu-ray seems to be ahead. A few weeks later there's another big movie release that comes out in HD-DVD and we're told again that HD-DVD is winning.
Enough of the format wars already.
UBoB wrote:
| Ah Sony, how soon you forget. Did you not learn anything from the Beta vs. VHS wars of the 1980"s? |
Exactly. Sony has tried the Apple (Macintosh style) trick of creating a closed format that they maintain total control of in the past. If they were more open with their standard, and more cooperative in the marketplace then others might have accepted and adopted their standard. Instead they tried to control things too much and have done nothing but confuse the marketplace in the hopes of getting their standard pushed out to as many customers as possible. I don't blame them for supporting a standard, I blame them for supporting their own standard.
Sony, Apple, and a host of others are all about Digital Rights Management and that is, to be sure, what really underlies Sony's support of Blu-ray. They feel it's the better mouse trap when it comes to locking down digital rights. That could be true, but if it is, it's all the more reason to hate on the format and hope it dies quicker than the old DivX format that Circuit City tried to foist upon the marketplace in the early days of the DVD format.
