Keeping Up
by Pravin on February 18th, 2008 in news.
There is no big news for Monday in terms of HD DVD developments. Toshiba mainly put out a terse statement indicating that they’re evaluating their options, but not confirming any news that came out of Japan on Friday.
I’m sure fans and detractors alike would much rather that Toshiba come out with a comprehensive statement that answers as many questions as possible about what’s happening next. But if you think about it, it’s pretty logical that an explanation this big doesn’t just come out in the matter of a few hours.
Toshiba’s decision has an impact on several business partners, and I bet that delays in any formal announcements are probably waiting on getting some sort of coordination between all of those companies.
It’s not like all of these companies combined only spent $10 over the last few years on the effort (although it might feel that way now). They put a ton more than that into it, and you don’t just walk away in an instant. There are lots of matters that need to be resolved.
Perhaps there will a joint announcement involving multiple companies. Or maybe each one will make separate statements on the same day. Who knows? I’m sure something more substantial is coming along, we just have to be patient.
Meanwhile, the slower parts of the web are only now getting their first dose of news about various events that happened last week. Unfortunately, your quest for real news is going to be muddled by these slowpokes.
A good way to get the very latest news is to visit the major gadget sites like Engadget.com and Gizmodo.com. These guys are big enough that they probably get direct phone calls when news like this goes down. Another way is to track messages at forums like the AVS Forum or at High-Def Digest (and numerous others), but this can be tedious.
One way to make it more convenient is to subscribe via an RSS feed. Most sites, even the forums, have an RSS feed of some sort. This means that you don’t have to visit the site when it has a new article, instead that article will get delivered into your RSS reader’s equivalent of an inbox. It’s like email, but for websites. You just check this “inbox” instead of all of those individual sites, what could be easier?
Google has a great RSS reader, and you can also subscribe to RSS feeds via the latest Outlook and many other programs.
