Public support for HD DVD wars sours
Posted by Matthew on Monday October 3, 2005 @10:23AM
from the live-by-the-poll,-die-in-a-bizarre-voting-related-accident dept.
matthew writes: Just as coalition partners HP and Dell slammed the Toshiba/Microsoft/Dell backed HD DVD insurgency against the Sony led Blu-Ray consortium, a new poll has shown that public support for the media war has dropped to its lowest point ever.
Peace talks between the Blu-Ray coalition and the HD-DVD consortium fell apart two months ago after the Blu-Ray coalition refused to provide technical support until after the HD-DVD consortium renounced its physical media standard and rejoined the media non-proliferation treaty.
War protesters led by a mother whose son had purchased four movies on the Sony PSP UMD format before realizing that there was no way to show them on an actual television tried to converge on Sony’s headquarters before discovering that the headquarters are in an undisclosed location. Further, Bryon Jensen, leader of the Amiga Martyrs Brigade has announced that his group will not provide driver support for HD-DVD in any Amiga emulator.
Subject:UMD
It's really difficult to understand what the “Universal” in “Universal Media Disc” is supposed to mean, unless “Universal” means “Only works in one device”. Any digital device can store all types of media, so that can't be it. I hope. I can't believe that people buy movies in that format when they're actually more expensive than the same movie on DVD.
Comment by Anonymous Crawford — October 3, 2005 @ 5:35 pm
Subject:Re: UMD
Yeah, I can't believe I've bought two. And that one of them was Jet Li's Hero. What the hell is wrong with me?
Comment by Matthew — October 3, 2005 @ 5:36 pm