Parents and Blu-ray update

Well, it appears that the HD format war is officially over and Blu-ray won. I still don't care because I still don't have a HD television. By the time I do get one, if ever, there might actually be some games for the PS3, but the Microsoft Blu-ray add-on will also probably be available which would mean that I would have a tough choice picking a gaming console. To be honest, I am not sure HD is worth it. While my parents have a HD TV, they mostly watch standard definition television on it. What decent HD programs are available are way over compressed so the compression artifacts are very visible any time there is any action or camera motion. Still images, though, look really nice. It is sad that the transition to HD has been handled so poorly.

For those of you who are wondering what happened with my parents, the main problem is still happening and probably won't be resolved until March 31st, and I have not heard about the accounting problem but hope that is finished with. It is sad to see such good people having to go through bureaucratic BS, but there is nothing I can do about it. I will probably be annoying the few people who read this with a bunch of politics in April just to get everything off my chest. I apologize for that right now.

Blu-ray the winner? PS3 Fanboys finally get to rejoice about something!

The Blu-ray vs HD DVD format war may be in it's final stages, with Blu-ray being the winner. While my parents have a HD television, I do not which is the primary reason I went with the Wii as my console choice. PS3 fanboys, on the other hand, are all for Blu-ray as it is the format the PS3 uses. Microsoft has previously announced that if Blu-ray managed to win the format war that they would make an ad-on available for the 360 so the XBox fanboys don't really care (they bought their consoles to play games on anyway). Until I do get an HD television (as is the case with 80% of the population) I don't really care. So the only people really happy about this are PS3 fanboys as they can justify their overpriced video players and continue to claim that one day you will actually be able to play games on them. Once the price of Blu-ray players come down to reasonable levels, then it might matter to the general public, but up-converted DVDs do look really good already so their is no real pressure to go to a HD format.