Some rants, some tech, some random thoughts…

I’m enormously disappointed that Disney is not offering video titles in the HD-DVD format. While Paramount and Warner are supporting both formats, Disney has once again chosen sides in this latest of video format wars. I remember when about a decade ago, Disney made similar moves by supporting the Divx (Digital Video Express) format over standard DVDs. The Divx discs offered consumers less flexibility, while promising studios better protection of their content. Wow, déjà vu…that’s very similar! A few years later, Disney realized the error in its judgment and threw itself into the Digital Versatile Disc market with uniquely-branded “Disney DVD” videos. Whatever…I didn’t care about the artificial victory announcements. I was just glad the discs started to arrive on shelves. So now, about those HD-DVD discs…when should we expect to start seeing them?