Lets face it few of us ever thought that the HD DVD would ever take off despite it having backing off some of the biggest names in the industry. Microsoft never really committed to the cause by not fitting the xbox360 with a HD DVD drive if this was the case I am pretty certain that HD DVD would have stood a chance.
Sony knew what mistake not to make after the embarrassment of Betamax and Minidisks. I have to cower and admit I did buy a sony mini disk player at the time and still have it sitting in some dark corner. If lived a short life.
One of the reasons Blu-Ray was always going to win is because of the Playstation 3 it's killing 2 birds with 1 stone. Just like the Playstation 2 being one of the main DVD playing devices of it's time and still is today.
When all of the studio that were backing HD DVD started to move over to Blu-Ray Toshiba finally realized it needed to cut its losses and that day was today.
Toshiba drops out of HD DVD war
I was a Blu-Ray supporter from the start but still wouldn't commit as I rarely invest in new technologies before they have been tried and tested for a few months/years. Also at the moment I am not in a position to invest in a Highdef TV and Blu-Ray player especially as my iMac is my main film watching resource. As soon as iTunes sorts out HD rentals for the UK I will have all the HD I need until I finish University.
So a farewell to HD DVD and long live Blu-Ray.
This morning I want to the doctors to get this 6 day headache checked out as I haven't been able to look at a screen properly for nearly a week now and it's starting to affect my University work and delaying work for clients which is something I don't like to happen. They said everything seemed ok and my blood pressure was fine (115 over 76) but I should get my eyesight checked.
Specsavers have me booked in for 4.35 hopefully I won't need glasses and still have 20/20 vision. But spending 10 hours or more a day staring at a screen can't be too healthy for them.
Hopefully I will be back to full working order soon and be able to get all my work out the way and into the portfolio (if I ever get time to update it).