http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/ Engadget Comments for China Blue HD crosses over to the UK, third Opium War inevitable http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/Oct 13th 2009 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/Oct 13th 2009 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/Oct 14th 2009 4:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/
HD-DVD lost the format war. Get over it. Sure, it had its advantages over Blu-ray, but was not the better overall format. We now have the better of the two formats, which is a good thing. The format war, however, caused a lot of bitterness, and that still lingers today.

-Pie]]>Oct 14th 2009 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/Oct 14th 2009 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/Oct 14th 2009 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/
Why this is making its way out of China is beyond me.]]>Oct 14th 2009 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/Oct 14th 2009 4:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/Oct 14th 2009 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/Oct 28th 2009 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/Oct 14th 2009 3:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/
In the meantime, expect to see the threat of lawsuits from the studios against businesses that import CBHD discs from overseas. As Levis prove over a decade ago, IP rights holders have some pretty twisted rights when it comes to controlling the imports of their own branded products.

The entire selling point of CBHD to the studios is as the ultimate form of region encoding, so they can sell content in China at a much lower (and thus affordable) price than in the US without the risk of Americans importing cheap Chinese discs. If CBHD takes off world wide, it isn't region encoding any more, it's just another rival.

Oh, and "HD DVD hold-outs" aren't going to buy CBHD unless they're just a BD/Sony hater. People who went for HD DVD went for it because of the advantages of that format. For all intents and purposes, CBHD is an entirely different format with none of the features that made HD DVD a sane system. Just because CBHD's spec was designed upon core technologies from HD DVD doesn't mean it's remotely similar.]]>Oct 14th 2009 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/
Basically, we have a new format already, and the last thing I want is talk of another "war".]]>Oct 14th 2009 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/
Go figure.]]>Oct 14th 2009 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/
Don't forget, each BB is different, run by different management. But we have a good share of Blu-rays, and it's been growing steadily.

I still prefer Netflix tho. :-)

-Pie]]>Oct 14th 2009 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/Ah, I'm going to miss the good ole days.]]>Oct 14th 2009 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/13/china-blue-hd-crosses-over-to-the-uk-third-opium-war-inevitable/Oct 15th 2009 5:26AM