The last few weeks have certainly been dramatic in the high definition format battle between Sony Blu-ray and Toshiba HD DVD. But after some high profile defections, HD DVD has made the Engadget Deathwatch. This is all interesting, but honestly I don’t really care. DVD’s work just fine for now and I don’t have an HDTV and no plans to get one in the coming months unless the price drops a lot more, or my current TV bites the dust.
I’m a lot more interested in getting a larger hard drive for my Xbox 360 which I’ve been using alongside the TiVo and in conjunction with my PC to watch shows and music videos from the internet. The disc doesn’t really matter anymore, except writable ones for archival purposes. So while I’m not too wild about all of the shenanigans that surely brought about the demise of HD DVD, it really isn’t very relevant to the way I see my entertainment needs developing in the future. I’ll still get a PS3 at some point, but it will be to play the games, not Blu-ray movies.