I guess the format war is over.

Sony finally won one. Shocking.

According to what might just be a rumour, Toshiba are giving up. I guess they might as well, since Netflix and WalMart just threw in with everyone else and went BluRay.

I guess it had to happen sometime. I just hope that the real loser here isn’t the rest of us — the consumers who waited for the war to end. HD-DVD did have its upsides, from what I hear. Cheapness being the big one….

Maybe the players will start coming down now.

Still reading.

I seem to have gotten myself in over my head on this one.

It’s not so bad, really. I guess. It’s almost easier than reading about any of my other ‘strangely obsessed subjects’, since everything’s all…nicely archived here and there. Unfortunately, there’s a lot more of it than I initially thought. And some of it’s harder to wade through than others.
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