Comments on: The Measure of Technological Success http://www.geekstudies.org/2008/03/the-measure-of-technological-success Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Church http://www.geekstudies.org/2008/03/the-measure-of-technological-success/comment-page-1#comment-918 Church Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:40:54 +0000 http://www.geekstudies.org/2008/03/the-measure-of-technological-success#comment-918 This was one of those, "To hell with both of them" moments for me. HD-DVD is more consumer friendly, in that it lacks the second layer of DRM, and has no region encoding. However, it DID mandate a Microsoft-sponsored format for interactivity (Blu-Ray has it as an option.) Me, I'm buying cheap external HDDs. And DVDs. This was one of those, “To hell with both of them” moments for me. HD-DVD is more consumer friendly, in that it lacks the second layer of DRM, and has no region encoding. However, it DID mandate a Microsoft-sponsored format for interactivity (Blu-Ray has it as an option.)

Me, I’m buying cheap external HDDs. And DVDs.

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