Surfing on the web today I found an interesting news about the Blu-ray vs HD-DVD format war. It seems that the two camps are trying to find a solution to solve the problem.
Mark Knox from the HD DVD Promotion Division and Andy Parsons, Pioneer's senior VP of product development and chair of the Blu-ray Association US Promotion Committee, came head to head, separated only by Chris Crotty an analyst from research firm iSuppli and NVIDIA's Patrick Beaulieu. Crotty described the war as 'the most pointless format war Beaulieu predicted the format war would be won in the PC |
The most interesting part is that neither of them ruled out a universal player. Even if the best thing will be join efforts to create a unique (and only ONE) Hi Definition format, in my opinion, a universal player will be a good idea to solve this war. But I'm not sure that this solution, the better one for end-consumers, will be implemented because each player wants the bigger part of the cake. And when money enters into the discussion, there is no space left for reasoning. 😉
Now I'm curious to see results of this "head to head" encounter :B
Source: HDTV UK