Yesterday I decided to make a purchase. No not a fish tank. It was the very affordable HD DVD drive for my Xbox 360. Please note it comes with King Kong in HD! I had been debating whether or not to buy it for a few reasons but broke down yesterday after service last night. I think something in Pastor Matt’s sermon regarding Satan drove me to do it. If Amanda wanted my head on a platter because of my decision, I could blame it on the devil she already hates him. So while I was at the greatest place on earth Best Buy, I bought a few other things, the Roots mini-series Happy Birthday Mom and the Corpse Bride which is in HD.

Now HD DVDs VS. Blu-Ray. Which one is better? You can get a player in either format for between $500-600. Of course you can go out and get a 360 or PS3 with the same capabilities to play Hi Def movies plus play great games for about the same. What is the purpose of High Def one may ask. Now who really cares about the textures on the walls while watching Ultra Violet or nipples on the Bat Suit. Well I guess you don’t need HD for that one. Now I may be stabbed for this but I can’t even really tell the difference between Standard and this new generation of HD and Blu-Ray movies, but then again, I also don’t have perfect vision.

So is it gonna suck next year if Blu-Ray takes over and I’m stuck with a little white box next to my 360 that plays the extinct HD DVDs? Yes of course. I’m sure people were betting their hard earned money on Sony’s Betamax over the VHS back in the 80’s. What’s Betamax? In the 90’s, Sony worked on a new media format, the Multimedia Compact Disc or MMCD. Later they abandoned the idea for what is now DVD. Will Blu-Ray share the same gruesome fate as Betamax or the MMCD? If it is the future, guess I’m trading in the 360.