Mar 29, 2006
Posted by Mike in Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD,PR
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If it Ain't Fixed… Break It
Jed Rosenzweig over at panandscan.com points out an article from Business Week that adds a whole new wrinkle in the HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray death match.
In his post High-Def DVD: Buyer Beware? Rosenzweig sums it up:
The problem is that in order to get high-def image quality out of an AACS disc on an HDTV set, the TV must come equipped with a special HDMI interface cable, but only one in 20 HD sets sold over the past three years has included this cable input. And the situation isn’t improving — it’s anticipated that only 15 percent of HDTV sets sold this year will be HDMI-ready.
As Seth Godin or Mark Hurst might say: This is Broken.
Add this all to the looming 2/17/09 deadline that the US Congress has set for the end of analog television broadcasting, and what do you get? Prepare for the fireworks folks.
So you buy a new HDTV (or converter box), plus a new HD-DVD and/or Blu-Ray player, plus a whole slew of new HD-DVD/Blu-Ray discs, and there’s still no guarantee that they will all work together.
At least it will keep the PR folks at all of these tech companies busy.
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