It's hard to write on this subject without coming across as a fanboy. For me, the best bit about HD DVD was that it didn't use Java.
Even today, it's Java that takes the fun out of loading a Blu-ray disc, but movie studios can't just stick a film on a disc and be done with it. It has to be laden with silly little interactivity and shiny graphics.
Sadly we live in a world where people are impressed by whizz-bang graphics and spiffy menus. That's why the iPhone impresses people more than an N95. They're capable of similar things, but one does it with style, the other just does it with barebones functionality.
Give me minimal compression, better audio and lower cost ANY day, and I'll take it.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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It's hard to write on this subject without coming across as a fanboy. For me, the best bit about HD DVD was that it didn't use Java.
Even today, it's Java that takes the fun out of loading a Blu-ray disc, but movie studios can't just stick a film on a disc and be done with it. It has to be laden with silly little interactivity and shiny graphics.
Sadly we live in a world where people are impressed by whizz-bang graphics and spiffy menus. That's why the iPhone impresses people more than an N95. They're capable of similar things, but one does it with style, the other just does it with barebones functionality.
Give me minimal compression, better audio and lower cost ANY day, and I'll take it.