[tripitaka]

Wonder what consumers are going to say when they find out Blu-ray only works over HDMI 1.3.

[theDentist]

Wonder what consumers are going to say when they find out Blu-ray only works over HDMI 1.3.

They'll say "I wonder what that means?" then hand over their plastic to the salesman.

[catbertz]

I was an HD supporter, and I'm bummed that it lost. I think it was the more consumer friendly format, cheaper and feature ready within its first six months on the market. BR will take almost another year to be feature complete.

It seems that Tosh didn't make the right moves strategically, which happens. MS had it's part in this loss, giving only lukewarm support, which ultimately doomed the effort.

Sony on the other hand, was just hellbent on not loosing another format war. When they lost the beta/vhs war, they went out and spent tons of cash to buy and hold a movie studio, which is THE key to winning a format war. It's all about content at the end of the day.

In the mean time Tosh and Sony still do lots of business together, and the only real victims are consumers like me :(

Nothing personal of course.