The Converging Network: Format wars over: Blu-ray Wins!

February 19, 2008

Format wars over: Blu-ray Wins!

Bluraylogo It's all over but the shouting, as the saying goes and I'm not sure there's much shouting left to do. I've been holding out buying an HD-DVD or Blu-ray player until one format wins. No VHS / Betamax entanglements for me - let the best format win, and I'll just buy that one.

Five things say Blu-ray has won; Toshiba announced it is done making HD-DVD players, Wal-Mart will only carry the Blu-ray format, Disney's movies use the Blu-ray format, Netflix is only sending Blu-ray disks, and Blueray owns the shelf space at Best Buy by at least 200%. That means a green light to moving to a Blu-ray player.

Now for my next problem. My HD TV doesn't have an HDMI interface. Arg. Is there a HDMI to DVI (which I have) option? If not, the next best option is using composite video connects but that only gives an interlaced signal rather than progressive HD.

If anyone knows of a good solution short of buying a new flat screen (now, there's an idea), please let me know.

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