If you do not have an HD-DVD or Blu-ray Player yet then don't worry. Don't even bother pricing them out this holiday season. Why? Because by Summer 2008 DirecTV, Verizon, AT&T and possibly Apple via iTunes will all be offering HD content online downloaded directly to your PC, Cable Set Top Box, DVR or TiVo device. This would replace the need for competiting formats in HD, just downloaded it and save it on a hard drive, a lot like MP3's replaced CD's at the turn of the century.
Microsoft already offers this service via the Xbox Marketplace. If you have an Xbox 360 you can download, Transformers, Ocean's Thirteen and 300 all onto your hard drive. There is no such service for Sony's Playstation yet but I don't think it is that far away.
Also by Spring 2008 most PC Notebook computers will have HDMI ports, so you can connect them directly to your HDTV. Either way buying an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player at this point is a nothing more than an impulse buy.
If your wallet can afford a $400 Blu-ray player impulse.
1 comment:
I totally agree, there will not be a winner to the format war because there won't need to be. The future is downloadable HD content or HD content on demand. Tivo now offers standard def content and I am sure it won't be long before they catch on and do HD content for their HD boxes.
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