The Battle of the HDTV (Saturday, March 24, 2018)

When we look at history, we tend to forget about the battle of the HDTV, one of the nerdiest of battles. It all began in the early 2000's after people no longer wanted to watch Full Screen movies from a Cathode Ray Tube Television. Lucky for us, the use of High Definition Technology had begun. Unfortunately this created a problem as there was no way to play an HD movie due to the fact that people only had classic DVD players and piles of scratched DVDs (not in their cases). To solve this, the creator of the DVD (Dr. DVD) created a new video format known as HD-DVD! Unfortunately someone else got the same idea and created Blu-ray,  another video format. And if that wasn't enough competition already, JVC entered the battle grounds with his all new D-Theater HD-VCR Player. Eventually new HD formats began appearing from all around, such as the Red-ray, HDx2-DVD, I-MAX VCR Player, Marcus Theater Starter Pack, High Def Laser Disk 2.0, Video Disk 4K, HD V. Cassette Tape, 6mm HD Film, Super Compact Disk, and HD TV Channels. Because of scheduling problems, HD-DVD, D Theater and Blu-ray only made the battle (Super Compact Disk got the wrong dates). The battle was sponsored by THX and lasted an entire 4 weeks. Now although Blu-ray won the battle by a three pointer, the victory didn't last for long. A year later, a new technical advancement was made, HD YouTube. This was of course the game changer, to the point that Amazon Prime Video got scared. It was so dangerous that JVC, DVD, Blu-ray, and I-Max proposed the Strategic High Def Reduction Treaty which would limit the number of HD releases per year. After the signing of this treaty, the forces of High Definition video were balanced, except for the fact that the HD-DVD player and the HD-VCR went out of business two business days later.

-Tyler Johnson