Vinyl Video

Nothing like a good format war. I've set up a tent in the Blu-ray camp, of course. Via the PS3. The videogame console I had the most to complain about—until my fucking XBOX 360 killed itself.

Don't take my word for it, though. There's this thorough, rational argument for why Blu-ray is likely to become the dominant format. Or at the very least, why HD-DVD won't win.

The world's seen a good format war before. They're good at dividing people because nobody wants to be stuck with an unsupported format. Everybody likes to draw parallels to the Betamax vs. VHS war in the early 80s. Of course, you can't make the comparison because the world was so different back then. And Betamax and VHS weren't the only formats vying for supremacy...

DA Pennebaker originally shot Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars for RCA's SelectaVision, a Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) player. Basically a vinyl disc that could play video...

Note the ominous skipping partway through the presentation. Stick around for the very end, where you get to see the actual player in use.