Wednesday, June 13, 2007

HD-DVD vs. BlueRay

Personally I myself have always followed the possibilities of blue lasers since I first heard about them when I was five. The possibilities for these lasers is truly amazing and was heart broken when I discovered they had went to the dark side, err I mean tagged along with Sony. Not that there is anything wrong with Sony. Sure they have the Handycam's, and they started bring back console gaming first on DVD-ROMs, but I mean hey, come on, Microsoft jumped in on it too! And now that the console war has been underway for a long time, its spawned the next-gen DVD war too. Playstation 3 comes standard with a BlueRay drive. Microsoft offers an HD DVD drive with an Xbox 360 or 360 Elite for an extra $200. And supposedly Toshiba's HD-A2 HD DVD player is the best selling stand alone next-gen player available. Which makes sense because no one buys a stand alone Blue-Ray player when you can buy a Blue-Ray player that comes with a free PS3, err I mean that the PS3 has the Blue-Disc, with the peanut butter fudge, and MP48's/cassette tape bonanza. So there are probably more Blue-Ray players out there but stores have sold more HD DVD players. But of course we all know that this years Blue-Ray Disc will lead to Red-Ray Disc (which technically are just regular DVD's but the public doesn't need to know) and HD DVD will lead to HHD DVVDD BVD. Thank you Red Vs Blue for that completely useless but very thoughtful 'Gadget' wepisode.

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