actiondvdguy,

The Computer engineering courses and math courses taken in a computer science degree make it easy to understand the technology underneath these formats.  I never claimed to be an expert, but it certainly is easier to be an expert on the technology involved with that kind of background than to be one with by just being in the home theater business or having a business degree. 

What your background didn’t illuminate is that early adopters tend to be technophiles nowadays, and technophiles tend to understand the technologies underneath are more important that the illusive and ever changing smokescreen of format issues (which can be altered while remaining backwards compatible via software and firmware programming).  People chose the better technical format.  I know that helped me decide.

BTW, who said I didn’t have a business background also?  That post is exactly the kind of horsecrap I was referring to… ;)

It’s fine.  I will continue to enjoy my HD and upconverted DVD’s until bluray is more affordable.  The ~$400 price tag is more than I want to fork over considering the A3 upconverts SD to near HD quality.  Heck, I may not upgrade to BD until 2012.

I did not know that having a computer science degree would make you an expert.  I thought being in the Home Theater business (like I am) would.  I do think that my Accounting degree and Master of Business Administration helped me to decipher which format favored the consumer (HDDVD) vs. the format that favored the suppliers and retailers.  I also have both formats and I calls it like I sees and hears it.

Soundzilla…  Yeah, I guess I don’t feel so bad for the HD-DVD people.  Now that I think about it, many of them had to lie in order to try and sell their format to people online.  A thread didn’t go by without someone propagating some kind of BS about HD-DVD that wasn’t true, or making personal attacks against Sony, or lying about Blu-Ray technology in order to make HD-DVD look better.

I have both formats.  I wasn’t even involved with taking sides until I just got so sick of the lies that I finally started to counter them on Audiogon with the truth to balance things out…  I am a technical person (as many early adopters are technically inclined) with a Bachelors in Computer Science.  Seeing the total BS being spread by HD-DVD definitely helped me to pick a side and eventually stick with it. 

It is funny how that whole approach ended up alienating their primary nascent customer base.  They shot themselves in the foot thinking that the early adapters weren’t intelligent enough to see through the BS being posted online to the technology underneath in this day and age.  Perhaps that kind of crap would have worked a few decades ago, but not now with so many early adopters being technically inclined instead of just foolishly wealthy.

Despite the smear campaign they pushed on people online, HD-DVD lost.  I guess HD-DVD got what it deserved.  Perhaps justice had nothing to do with it, but it certainly feels good to think justice had something to do with it.

Soundzilla
What are you going to do with all those blewray discs you bought that was hardly worth watching once let alone twice.  I guess the shiny blue covers will look good on a bookshelf.