Okay you guys, listen up for a second. I’ve got some bad news. It’s been a long and winding road and we’ve all fought really hard, but it appears that HD DVD might actually be on its way out for real. We just got word that Onkyo has decided to stop making HD DVD players. I know you feel. I feel like I got punched in the gonads, too.
I don’t know what else is going on with the whole HD DVD versus Blu-ray thing, but if Onkyo announces that it’s leaving the HD DVD game, then the game…she’s over. You can, however, still pick up this Onkyo HD DVD player for the low, low price of $900.
Onkyo made this announcement a couple of weeks ago but it was made in Japanese, so it apparently took this long to translate. It’s a beautiful, complex language.
On a more positive note, I’d like to submit that HD DVD donate its name to Blu-ray. Blu-ray could then go by Blu-ray or HD DVD and we consumers could choose which name we like better. I like the sound of HD DVD better because it sounds like DVD except in high definition. Blu-ray sounds like a minor league baseball team.
I wonder how many more of these “this announcement means it’s definately over” posts we’ll see before people will accept that it really is over for HD-DVD. Will congress have to amend the constitution to put it to rest? Toshiba has already announced they are abandoning the format, that’s it!
Good job catching the sarcasm.
tbke nom
Betamaxed…
lol….nice write up, Doug.
+5 for Alex’s comment.
Good idea with the name donation…I thought the same thing all along. But then what naming iterations will we have after that? I propose:
HD-DVD
Super HD-DVD
DVD 64
DVD Cube
DVDii
With a couple of DVD Boys and DVD Lites thrown in for movies on the go…
you forgot iDVD
yep, but those will only be released in china though…and be an ntsc signal of course! Along with:
FamiDVD
SuperFamiDVD
DVD64DD
And maybe a couple others, I hear rumors about a Panasonic Q DVD too!