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Originally Posted by Delgar
Bill Hunt of the Digital Bits has spent a lot of his reputation pushing Bluray, and he's been paying for it. He was THE guy back when dvd was making its push in 1997/1998, but now he's just another hack picking sides.
I don't care who wins this format war, though at this rate they'll both lose. To suggest blu-ray somehow is inevitably going to win based on current trends is as stupid as when the HD crew proclaimed their early lead was a sign of things to come.
The end result is, the majority of consumers refuse to buy in. These little discs (HD, blu ray, and standard dvd) will all be obsolete in 5 years anyway, I look at my massive dvd collection and wonder what I was thinking. Besides a few top titles, my purchases were a complete waste.
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I was part of the online war way back then with the DVD vs Divx war which was an absolute joke/insult to the consumers.
Good guys won back then, now its harder to pick sides. I think unlike back then when it was much easier to choose sides now its about most early adopters angry that they can't just pick a format and move on.
We got all the electronic companies back then to agree to a DVD format, then last minute DIVX appears. Now they won't even try to find common ground and ultimately the consumer loses as we have to delay the advance of this format and people waste money on either formats.
Its ridiculous this still keeps going.
