Last night I posted about Warner Bros switching exclusively to Blu-Ray in the HD format war. I commented that it now seems inevitable that Blu-Ray will now end up winning this HD civil war sooner rather than later. On top of that, if the new rumors I’ve been hearing are true… it’s the final nail in the coffin.
I’ve been hearing from a few movie blog readers, and reading on a few tech sites that Apple may be getting ready to announce that their desktop computer line-up will soon include Blu-Ray DVD players built in as a standard feature. No word if that includes IMacs or just the Mac Pro computers.
If this is indeed true, then Steve Jobs will not only be announcing the addition of a new feature on the Mac line ups… but essentially he’ll also (by extension) be informally announcing the end of the HD format war, because it will be game over. Not in 2 years. Not next year. Right now it will be over and I’d be surprised if more than 3 months pass before phase out announcements started coming from the HD DVD camp.
The ONLY thing at this point I can see turing this whole thing around for HD DVD, is if Microsoft and each of the major computer makers suddenly announced that from now on HD DVD players will be included in all new PC computers… but that’s obviously not going to happen (especially with Sony computers).
