http://www.sprinklerhead.com Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:11:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 http://www.sprinklerhead.com/2008/02/19/hd-dvd-loses-we-all-die-a-little-inside-today/ http://www.sprinklerhead.com/2008/02/19/hd-dvd-loses-we-all-die-a-little-inside-today/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:03:11 +0000 Jeremiah Owen http://sprinklerhead.com/2008/02/19/hd-dvd-loses-we-all-die-a-little-inside-today/ Kind of a bummer. I had been hoping that HD-DVD would pull out a win but alas it wasn’t meant to be.  Even though they never got around to implementing it Mandatory Managed Copy was the big piece that made me hope for HD-DVD. Managed copy would allow you to not only make copies of your HD-DVDs but also potentially move the content to other non-HD-DVD devices. It is a part of the Blu-Ray spec but is not mandatory and doubt it will be ever used.  A real shame. I had only purchased about 25 HD-DVDs so I am not too bad off, I had read the writing on the wall about 6 months ago and picked up a PS3 for the Blu-Ray player and now have about 35 Blu-ray Discs. In one sense I am just glad the format war is over and now I no longer have to worry I am building an obsolete library. Feel sorry for my brother though who has about 100 HD-DVD movies, man if my investment in 25 hurts I can only imagine how 4 times that investment has got to feel…. ouch! RIP HD-DVD.

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