HD DVD - the zombie format! 
Saturday, May 31, 2008, 02:57 PM - Technology
Posted by Administrator
Considering the announcement a few months back that HD DVD was a dead format - it doesn't seem to be doing too bad right now! I saw a poster just the other day at the railway station declaring the release of a major movie on HD DVD the following week, there's still plenty of HD DVDs going at full price (though admittedly there are loads at a bargain prices too).

The hardware's much cheaper (I picked up an HD DVD player for just 50 notes a couple of months back)...

True; support for the format is no longer there but the format doesn't seem so much dead but more of a zombie format - it's dead but it just won't lay down! It'll be interesting to see how long this lasts and it does make you wonder whether it would have been such a knackered cause if they'd managed to pull off these kind of prices sooner... Maybe then it would have been Blu-Ray that would now be shuffling around demanding fresh juicy brains!

For the record: Blu-Ray was always my format of choice - I don't have the hardware (yet) but that extra capacity is sorely needed. Just wish they'd hurry up and get the prices of recordable Blu-Ray media down!

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