Bluray Wins, Hddvd In Death Throes Options

[speculatrix]

akihabaranews have carried news of Tosh announcing they've thrown in the towel.

so, with a clear winner for HD, are there any here who, like me, have sat on the fence waiting for a winner. and might go ahead with a hidef TV and a BRay player (PS/3 for me, probably)

how does this bode for being able to rip movies and encode them for playing on our beloved devices, with DVD it's now pretty trivial, with BR it's not so?

[desertrat]

so, with a clear winner for HD

I would have liked it better if somehow both sides "lost" that'll teach all the participants not to have these format wars where the only loser is the consumer.

[speculatrix]

so, with a clear winner for HD

I would have liked it better if somehow both sides "lost" that'll teach all the participants not to have these format wars where the only loser is the consumer.

well, in a sense everyone lost, tosh subsidised hddvd, microsoft/xbox is stuck with a dead-end hddvd device (I wonder if they will continue the discounting or return to full price knowing they can't recover the market?), sony and co. have spent megabucks on promotions (who knows whose palms they had to grease to get the studios to buy in?)... but of course the consumer has paid for it all indirectly.

--edit-- p.s. if a hi-def WII came out tomorrow, I'd forget about buying a PS/3.