What's wrong with regular DVD?

Spend five minutes on the interhighway and you're bound to come across an article about Toshiba's pulling out of the hi-def war. That's right, citizens. HD DVD is officially a thing of the past. Blu-ray won out all the major distribution companies, and within the year, it'll be the only current-gen video release media on the market. PS3 owners are rejoicing, while 360 owners are scrambling. As for Wii owners, they got the shaft in the first place, so this isn't much of a blow to their private regions.

But what about the billions of us who are still perfectly content to watch good old DVDs? My television set has two settings, Suck and Fail. I couldn't possibly care less about seeing the skin pores on the sweaty actor gracing too much of my screen, or the peach fuzz on the lip of that otherwise smoking hot bikini model. In other words, I have no need for high-definition video whatsoever. And I represent a gigantic portion of the world who doesn't have thousands of dollars to buy overpriced hi-def movies and the equipment to play them. Also, while watching a DVD, I have never once thought "This would be a lot better if the picture was clearer. This is really subpar."

Blu-ray is winning a race and no one is at the finish line to congratulate it besides a few corporate executives who get a hard-on every time they realize their space-age format triumphed over a competition that had no glaring weaknesses besides a circumstantial lack of support. HD DVD losing the hi-def war matters to most people about as much as a starving child in Africa surviving another day.

Now, I'm off to watch Arrested Development on DVD. It's a show whose characters probably benefit from the lack of high-definition detail.