Rock the Format War Vote
January 22, 2008

There are dueling online peititons making the rounds: one to save HD DVD, and another to try to kill it. The 'Save' petition pleads with Warner to get back in bed with HD DVD, in order to support "all those consumers who bought HD DVD movies and hardware for the holidays." The 'Die' petition begs Paramount, Universal and Toshiba to end their affair with HD DVD, and switch to producing in BD to "let the HD packaged media market community heal and grow." As of Tuesday 5 p.m. pacific time, 'Save' had gathered the biggest pile of signatures, at over 15,768. The 'Die' petition had amassed 6,177 at that time.  What's weird and maybe Obama vs. Clinton and/or Huckabee vs. McCain-esque, is that format momentum seemed to flip in the course of one day. On Monday, HighDefDigest was reporting the opposite, that the 'Die' propenents were in the lead, and 'Save' was floundering. So if keeping up the 2008 Presidential Primaries is starting to get old, you can always participate in high-def format war campaigning! Although we'll have a good feel for our winning Democratic and Republican candidates for President near Super Tuesday Feb 5 voting, I'll wager the format sides will still be squabbling. 

Posted by Susanne Ault on January 22, 2008 | Comments (3)