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Nov 09 2007 12:00am EDT
Maybe Blu-ray vs. HD DVD Is The Wrong War
Sony chief Howard Stringer is lamenting that the battle between high-def video disk formats -- Sony's Blu-ray vs. Toshiba-backed HD DVD -- is a "difficult fight."
But it's worth asking whether it's the wrong war. How long before large numbers of people start getting their HD movies by downloading them off the Net or via a movies-on-demand service? Two years? Five? In the meantime, it's not like tried and true DVDs are a bad format that consumers dislike.
Could be that the high-def disks are like Kodak introducing Advantix in 1996. Within four years, digital cameras were blowing film out of the water.
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