Another post today in the great and rediculous format war.  

The first season of Heroes will be released on August 28th, which is excellent in a super geeky way.   The completely discouraging news is that it will be available on DVD and HD DVD only - no Blu-ray. 

An article on videobusiness.com states that Universal is standing by it’s decision to support only HD DVD and to continue developing features that showboat the internet connectivity of most HD DVD players. Many of these format war articles keep touting the built in internet accessibility of HD DVD players as a feature over most Blu-ray players. The major point that many of these articles ignore is that over 3 million Playstation 3s have been sold, which act as Blu-ray players and have internet accessibility.

Manipulative marketing is all over the place in HD home delivery. I’m really starting to get annoyed with the companies that are only offering distribution on one format rather than both. I dropped a good chunk of change on my Blu-ray player and I love it. In my eyes it is superior than HD DVD image quality wise, the interactive features take a back seat to me. I am mostly concerned with the visual integrity of the film itself. Some of my friends own both HD DVD and Blu-ray players and all of them prefer their Blu-ray discs - but that is besides the point here. I want to be able to purchase the movies i want to be able to watch without having to keep dumping $300 - $600 on a new player every time someone decides they want to make money on a new format.

Damn, but I would like to own Heroes in HD.