Played_Out on 23 January 2008
| a.l.e.x59 said: Looks like HD-DVD is the new Betamax! I still think that downloading will take the crown at the end! |
HD-DVD is in an even worse position than Betamax was. Betamax was technologically superior to VHS, and professional grade variants, Betacam/Betacam SP, became the broadcast standard right the way up to the digital era.
HD-DVD doesn't have any advantages, so I can't really see a future for it at all. Therefore, I don't see HD-DVD as the new Betamax. I don't even see it as the new LaserDisc.
And downloading probably will take the crown in the end, but that's at least a decade away.
