I was thinking about this yesterday and a comment by Logan Macleod stirred it up a little more. In regards to HD DVD and Blue Ray I'm not really so much choosing anything as I am not choosing anything. Let me explain. First of all the difference between DVD and Hi Def DVD is not the great difference that we saw with VHS to DVD. In particular its limited even more by upconverting DVD and HD DVD players. Right now I can honestly go between watching a DVD to an HD DVD to even movies encoded to play on my Media Center/360. Sure there are quality differences, but they are not as dramatic. More importantly I don't notice a HUGE difference in DVD and HD DVD (except whenever on an HD DVD they show vista type scenes, you know mountains, valleys, oceans, lots of color and detail. But I digress. I purchased my HD DVD player because of a good price and a good deal, I have not yet found that with Blue Ray and even for someone as technology savey as I'd like to think I am, I am still a little confused with the Blue Ray specs. Sure Sony keeps updating the PS3 and its a great Blue Ray player but as a media machine its not there yet. When I buy a product I am buying it for what it is when I purchase it, I want to know that going in if the product is never updated that it fulfills the need I have for it. Neither Blue Ray or the PS3 do that, yet. This post is not to say that I am against either the PS3 or Blue Ray, but until they both decide what they are and when their ready to be that, I will continue to choose to not choose by choosing.
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