Sunday evening, Xbox Live Director of Programming Larry Hryb’s (aka Major Nelson) podcast featured a lengthly comparison of the next-generation disc formats, HD-DVD and Bluray. Appearing as his guests and topical experts were Amir Majidimehr, corporate vice president of the Consumer Media Technology Group at Microsoft, and Kevin Collins, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft.
Fair disclaimer: Microsoft today is firmly in the pro HD-DVD camp, but as Amir points out during the discussion, MS maintained neutrality in the format war for about two years before committing to HD-DVD in September of 2005. Also note that I will also be reprinting the points made during the podcast verbatim – meaning they’re not my words, but theirs – don’t shoot the messenger.