HD-DVD

Now, I know that most of you do not even know about High Definition stuff but in the near future you will. I read today that 1 million Digital TV's were sold in just the first two months of this year and if you have not already chances are the next TV you buy will be High Definition, so you need to know about the next future of DVD's. The first part of being educated is to go toTHIS website. You really need to go to the second page after you click the link, but this website is the best way I have seen to explain it to the public (those who are not Home Theater freaks like me). The second page shows VERY clearly the difference between the widescreen versions of DVD's and VHS tapes as opposed to the Full-Screen versions.

If you still buy full screen movies after reading this article then you need a good Dr. :)

Now, that you have been educated with Widescreen, you need to know about Digital TVs (otherwise known as High Definition TV's) Let me see if I can get you a good site for the education of these TVs so you will be educated on this one too.... here you go!

Ok, now that you know why Widescreen, and al the different TVs that are out there (beware of anything thing that says EDTV). Then you really need to look into caring about the new High Definition DVDs that are coming out. There are two groups here (Blu-Ray, and HD-DVD) and they might be causing another format war. (NOT a good thing). I don't know if any of you are old enough to remember, but there was a format war a long time ago with BetaMax, and VHS tapes way back when. We all know that VHS won, but the public was confused and it really hurt both formats, and just confused the consumer. A modern format war is the DVD-A (the A=audio) and the SACD (Super Audio CD) both of these were supposed to bring multi-speaker audio into the main stream and with both format the general public is just confused. They are both really cool and are amazing for Audio only discs, but the public is mostly clueless. This might be occurring with the new High Definition DVDs in the future.

Now the thing you all need to Know is that your current DVDs are not high definition. You really need to got to your local high end electronics store and ask them to show you High Definition to see what all the talk is about. (the slang term of HD is "window"...It is that good) Well a new thought is being brought up now and rumors are running rampant that the next Playstation video game console will be a Blu-Ray capable DVD player. This would make a huge segment of the population Blu-Ray supports and a very smart moved if you ask me. But, there is nothing stopping Microsoft to allow the DVD player in the next Xbox (look for it around Christmas 2005 or first of 2006) to play their encoding format (DC-9) (which BTW the HD-DVD people have allowed to be one of the different ways to be on HD-DVD's.)

Well for those of you who could care less then just hunt for the Easter Egg and have fun, for those tech heads like me I hope you already know this stuff, but if not then consider your self educated.

And all of you better not even think about buying anything home electronic with out talking to me first...Never only talk to a sales person....Trust me they really probably do not know. heh (pray for them)

Jay update: well, we are waiting on test results to find out what is going on with the nervous system. Keep praying!