Format war fallout
Don’t tell anyone, but I have an HD DVD player.
I know it’s embarrassing, but it’s really not my fault. It was a gift, two years ago nonetheless. And it’s just an add-on to my Xbox360, so at least it’s not an expensive standalone player. At the time, I thought it was great–we could finally really start to enjoy our HDTV and watch our favorite movies on it. But, the HD DVD discs were expensive, like $30 a pop, and it took a while for most titles to come out. So, fortunately, we only purchased around six HD DVD movies before the format war really heated up.
Once the war broke out it was HD DVD in the early lead, then that other format (I refuse to call it by name) was catching up, then back to HD DVD, and so on. Finally, early this year the format “we do not speak of” won out and now I’m stuck with no way to get HD DVDs even if I wanted to. Well, I’m sure I could go on eBay and find them, blah, blah, blah, but seriously what’s the point? I was fine with watching all my fave movies in regular definition before and I sure as heck am not going to plunk down any more cash on that bl-bl-blasphemous format only to see it replaced in two years.
So, you know what? I’ve changed my mind. Go ahead, tell anyone you please you know some poor unlucky guy with a HD DVD player. I can take the ridicule. And in a two years, I challenge anyone to see if they have watched the HiDef version of Phantom of the Opera (disclaimer: also a gift) more than me.
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This is a hilarious post. One question, do you refuse to say it because you don’t like the name or some other reason? I question because I also have issues with saying the name. To the point that I will probably just call it HD still. Kind of like “XEROX” and “Kleenex” have taken over their respective worlds.