It always stings when you pick the losing team, especially if you’re an early adopter spending your hard-earned green on a soon-to-be-obsolete technology. Sony recently won the high-def format war to succeed DVD with Blu-ray Disc, and all the major studios now support it.
If you’re one of the unlucky souls who rolled the dice on Toshiba’s competing HD DVD format before they mercy-killed it last month, you’re not alone. You’ve got to read Josh Levin’s hilarious article “I’m the Idiot Who Bought an HD DVD Player” in which he defends his reasoning (“I’m a gadget-loving cheapskate”) and is fed up with the ridicule.
“The format’s demise has brought HD DVD owners untold humiliation,” he writes. “[There are] reams of newspaper stories comparing them to the losers of yore who bought into Betamax and Laserdisc, the sad sight of desperate early adopters peddling brand-new players on Craigslist, and, worst of all, a website celebrating the similarities between HD DVD and Hillary Clinton. I’m sick of the mockery and abuse. You see, I’m one of the morons who bought an HD DVD player.”
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I'm one of those losers who fell for the free DVD offer and bought one at Wal-Mart. Stop rubbing salt in the wound! I'm using my HD DVD player as a plant stand. At least my fern gets better light now.
Jeez. You know there are two competing formats and yet you still went out and got the inferior format, which a little research would have told you. Expect no pity from me --and, no, I don't have a Blu-Ray player-- because I'm someone who bought the superior format that lost its war (Beta).
As for laserdisc, it's a failure only because there was no widespread support and Hollywood kept the price of movies absurdly high.
you’re not alone. You’ve got to read Josh Levin’s hilarious article......
Thanks...