hd-dvd sucks

Warner Studios, who is supposedly going to be the first studio to release movies on HD-DVD, has delayed their first releases by three weeks from March 28 to April 18. Toshiba has said they are likely to delay the release of their players to match the launch of the first content, though they haven’t officially announced it yet. Also, Toshiba is apparently only shipping 10,000 total HD-DVD players for its intial launch, indicating they aren’t exactly expecting crazy sales. Of course, with only three movies at launch, it shouldn’t be too unbelievable.

HD-DVD’s first-to-market advantage over Blu-ray is getting smaller and smaller, and now looks like they’ll beat Blu-ray to market by only one month. (Blu-ray is currently scheduled to launch May 23). This is unfortunate because if I had to choose between HD-DVD or Blu-ray, I would take HD-DVD any day of the week. I mean, considering all the crap Sony has pulled, I just don’t care for them anymore.