Originally posted by: ferris209
I've come to find that Sony is great at alienating their customers (maybe George Lucas is a stockholder!) by making Sony brand specific items which tries to make the whole industry accomodate them, examples include memory sticks, UMD format, and now Blu-Ray. Although Blu-ray is the better format, I think HD-DVD will win based on it's name. Even the least tech savvy person knows HD means High Definition, whereas they'll see Blu-ray and go Huh?. Just my opinion though.
I've come to find that Sony is great at alienating their customers (maybe George Lucas is a stockholder!) by making Sony brand specific items which tries to make the whole industry accomodate them, examples include memory sticks, UMD format, and now Blu-Ray. Although Blu-ray is the better format, I think HD-DVD will win based on it's name. Even the least tech savvy person knows HD means High Definition, whereas they'll see Blu-ray and go Huh?. Just my opinion though.
You may be onto something there. I mentioned Blu-ray to my girlfriend, and my work colleagues, with replies along the lines of "huh?", "blue what?", and "you're smoking what now?". The only people who recognise the name are my other nerd friends. Not that I ever brought up HD-DVD, but they all seem to have an idea of high definition being, um, more defined than before...