I watched this mildly diverting debate on BBC’s Click Online TV program last week; which future disk storage format will win, Blu-ray or HD-DVD? You probably don’t care too much, just so long as the winner offers greater capacity, more reliability and cheaper prices than ever before. Richard Doherty, speaking for Blu-ray, and Vic Harasimow, standing up for HD-DVD, do care (principally because they may be out of a job if their respective companies don’t win…).

“Certainly a format war is unfortunate, but there is a lot of time left, so nothing is inevitable and we maybe able to fix something up in the next year before we reach product. At the same time it is very difficult for us to imagine what we might give up in a very successful and what we think is a compelling format to try and make a merge.”

Website: BBC News - Blu-ray versus HD-DVD