Tuesday, July 11, 2006
HD DVD vs. Blu-ray
In the near future, we will be forced to decide between Sony's Blu-ray disc and Toshiba's (along with others such as Microsoft) HD DVD. Either way, it sounds like CDs are more and more quickly becoming with the way of the tape cassette or vinyl record (whatever that is). Both of these new high capacity DVDs will be able to hold storage of over 50GB!! which, in my opinion, is more than anyone would ever need considering most personal hard drives aren't even that large. Now the downside to this battle between the new standards is that the consumer will be forced to choose and buy one set of hardware making it so it is compatible with only one of the two mediums. This proprietary hardware seems to be holding back technology as a whole because the ideas are so similar that it's such a waste that they must compete. Reminds me of the struggle between VHS and Beta.
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