Wilson also suggested that consumers would really have been better off with the HD format than with Blu-ray. [emphasis added]
"Storage capacity is the one area [where Blu-ray] can claim an advantage," he elaborated. But the outcome of the format war, which became official on Tuesday, "doesn’t benefit anyone today and it comes at a cost. [Blu-ray] discs and players are both more expensive to manufacture. The DVD format was less expensive to implement and further along in its deployment. [Blu-ray] is twelve months behind in terms of its feature set."
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “Still a bit bitter”
I think it’s a bit short sighted to only look at Blu-Ray or HD-DVD as a media for movies and home entertainment. How many people are using DVDs for backup or sending information now? Blu-Ray offers even more storage capacity, but of course it’s still some time off. Think ahead!
I think it’s a bit short sighted to only look at Blu-Ray or HD-DVD as a media for movies and home entertainment. How many people are using DVDs for backup or sending information now? Blu-Ray offers even more storage capacity, but of course it’s still some time off. Think ahead!