Well, since I just received Harry Potter 1-5 in HD-DVD for Christmas, and picked up Serenity and Monty Python's Meaning of Life in Amazon's buy-one-get-one-free offer, that means it's time for HD-DVD to bite the dust.
First, Warner Bros. comes out a week ago and drops support for HD-DVD. Then the HD-DVD group cancels their Consumer Electronics Show press conference. There's rumors that Apple will announce their first Blu-Ray-enabled Macs at next week's Macworld Expo.
And today I see this report from Financial Times (via Kotaku) that claims that Paramount, the only studio supporting HD-DVD exclusively, has an "out" in their contract that allows them to drop HD-DVD support if Warner does.
Not looking good for HD-DVD, and I guess I better start reading up on how to crack AACS on my discs so I can future-proof them.
On the local HD front, one of Maria's Xmas gifts to me was the green light to purchase a new HDTV. I sold my old one via Craig's List, literally in less than an hour (I priced it aggressively), and brought home a nice new 42" LCD 1080p TV last night. Man, does MythTV look good running at 1920x1080p! Xbox looks good too but I'm seeing some interference via component, so I think I'm going to switch to running it via VGA instead. Wait, I ordered the VGA adapter already, so I AM going to switch, no thinking about it.
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