HD DVD is dead, Blu Ray is still alive

but for how long? is Blu Ray really the best technological solution available? should we invest our hard earned money in these blue Blu-ray discs?

maybe we should learn from the very sad experience with our DVD movie collections. a lot of people spent thousands of dollars building an impressive collection of DVDs, featuring all possible versions of a movie, starting with the special edition, unrated DVD, Widescreen, Director's cut, Extended, 2-disc, Platinum, Aniversary, Limited, Ultimate, Extrem...

Then buying the new version, because the new movie DVD has 20 seconds more of very important unseen footage, 2 new interviews, a new art work and a very expensive and unique and limited piece of plastic in funky colors. (should I say Lord of the Rings ?!?)

DVD quality meant in the beginning high digital image quality. on the standard television sets it certainly look that way, nice colors, sharp image and all. But as soon as the first high resolution tv sets appeared, people started to fill uneasy about the great DVD quality, the hidden imperfections appeared. pixels and even squares were very visible, and many started to pay attention to words like image resolution, pixel density.

HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray epical battle

The industry saved the day of course: two new highly competitive products, HD DVD and Blu-Ray. Fierce competition between the two, who will conquer the market? That sounds like the battle between DVD-R and DVD+R, who cares who will win?

Blu-Ray won the fight, HD DVD lost, but this came quite late in the game. Again, the same people that owned the big DVD collection, started already to buy the same movies and the new ones also in HD DVD quality. At double the price of course, but it was worth it, the plastic case was much smaller and modern, so they saved a lot of shelf space.

Don't worry about it, the industry great minds said, you can keep your HD DVDs, they still play on your HD DVD player, no problem. Only if you want to buy new Blu-Ray movies, you'll probably need to own a compliant Blu-Ray player as well. Because Blu-Ray is the future, you need to be prepared.

So now the humanity is happy, the balance in the universe is once again restored:

• buy a HDTV Ready or a full HD 1080p LCD or Plasma flat screen (best viewed in 40" or more)
• buy a Plastation 3 or a Xbox 360
• don't forget your Blu-Ray player
• go to the store and buy your copy protected Blu-Ray discs, in full high definition.
• enjoy life

This scenario is too good to be true, what do you think?
there must be something else in store for us, how about those new 4060v Green-Ray discs?

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