Nope. Blu-ray was developed and announced in advance of HD DVD (aka AOD, at the time). Not only that, if Warner had gotten their way, HD DVD would probably be no more than 15GB. Microsoft entered the race both as a spoiler, and to piss off Sony and other consumer electronics manufacturers (that's why so few of them are making HD DVD hardware). If they can force a format war, then the chance that both die off is high, and Microsoft can swoop in and "save" us with discless media. Think DRM is bad now? Wait until you don't even have a physical copy that you have at least nominal claim over. All that over an infrastructure that's incapable of handling 1080p and lossless sound, which means more compressed HD. Yay!
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Nope. Blu-ray was developed and announced in advance of HD DVD (aka AOD, at the time). Not only that, if Warner had gotten their way, HD DVD would probably be no more than 15GB. Microsoft entered the race both as a spoiler, and to piss off Sony and other consumer electronics manufacturers (that's why so few of them are making HD DVD hardware). If they can force a format war, then the chance that both die off is high, and Microsoft can swoop in and "save" us with discless media. Think DRM is bad now? Wait until you don't even have a physical copy that you have at least nominal claim over. All that over an infrastructure that's incapable of handling 1080p and lossless sound, which means more compressed HD. Yay!