Who cares about the DVD format war?

Not me! When people (by people I mean the media) aren’t talking about the iPhone, they’re talking about the battle between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray DVD. Never heard of either of them? Then you’re not alone, recent surveys have shown that most people have never heard of either of them.

They’re the next DVD format that will deliver high definition (HD) movies to you new HD TV. However they will involve you buying a new DVD player, either a Blu-Ray one (currently very expensive) or a HD-DVD one (cheaper), or one that plays both (unreleased and unpriced). Manufactuers and film studios are battling out to see who will become the dominant force, as in the old VHS and Betamax battle.

However am I the only one who knows about it all, but doesn’t care? I won’t be buying either format, and instead will just continue with DVDs for a few years and download films on demand. Many legal download services are available, and whilst the bugs and kinks are sorted out I’ll just rent or buy them. Here at Life Goggles, we’re beta users of The Venice Project (win an invite here), a legal piece of software that allows you to watch TV shows on different “channels” streamed (not downloaded) over the internet. From what we can tell so far, it’s going to be great, especially as it has The World’s Strongest Man on there.

DVD format war? I couldn’t care less, could you?

Update: It might be over already – warning, it’s for, er, “adult” reasons….

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