We can all rejoice, brace for it. The moment we've all been waiting for has finally arrived. Best Buy is now carrying The Next Generation of videos. And not just The Next Generation, but both next generations. That right bloglanders HD DVD and Blu-Ray are taking arms and ready to battle.
At first glance HD DVD is kicking Blu-Ray's booty as the only Blue-Ray that I noticed was the one and only The Fifth Element starring Bruce Willis. No Schindler's List. No half-way amazing movie. Instead we get The Fifth Element now for only $25. Or we could go the HD DVD route and pick up "The Last Samurai" for $30. A movie that was recently $5.99 on DVD at Wal-Mart and could probably be purchased for $3.00 on VHS can be purchased for 5 or 10 times that much so that it can be viewed in the best quality known to man. And by the way, it's audio file is no longer compressed! Hip Hip Hooray! It also came in a sleaker case than any DVD I'd seen before. Rounder corners and thin. Very sexy.
So with very little research I'll opinionate. Blu-Ray? HD DVD? Who will win? Who will lose? I'm guessing that the format that gets the most films and the best marketing will win. Of course films will hopefully go to both formats, but demand goes up for either one if they are unique (Halo anyone?). There is no doubt that Joe Consumer and Jane Lovesmovies are the real losers. Unless you're so wealthy and so into technology and precision that you have nothing better to do with your money than you'll probably just wait until your sucked into having to buy one or the other because it's no longer released on DVD. It'll be a few years and hopefully until then the ol' DVDs will keep getting cheaper and cheaper. By the way, I picked up Spiderman II ($4), 8 Mile ($4), Reservoir Dogs ($6), and the almost brand new Failure to Launch($9) for a total of $25 at Best Buy yesterday. So perhaps I'm not really losing after all. Then I went home to watch Friday Night Lights on TV. What a waste of money...that'll be for another day.
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Lisa needs to come back, you have too much time on your hands to write that.
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