Kottke: ‘Interview With HD DVD Player Owner Steven Johnson’

Steven Johnson:

I thought it was pretty funny. I mean, the Betamax adopters at least had a few years to nag their VHS friends about the better picture quality, before the format died a slow death. But HD-DVD — they just took it out back and shot it! I think that’s what’s so striking about this. I can’t remember a standards war where the winner was crowned so definitively.

★ Friday, 22 February 2008