Indeed, how can you say CRT is a failed technology? Tube amps too. They are both things which were really popular at the time but have been phased out purely for cost/practicality reasons.
You can only call a technology failed if it was still a valid technology but died for silly reasons. Like company mismanagement, poor advertising, bad reception from the customers, etc.
Also I have to agree that HD DVD while being much more organised (all its features work on ALL HD DVD players, something Blu ray cannot claim) is/was in the inferior format.
Blu ray made big claims and it seems will (eventually) deliver on those. The problem was always cost and the fact Blu ray being more ambicious was missing most of its promised features when HD DVD was already finalised. But once the players actually WORK, Blu-ray will be an excellent format.
I already love the fact that its REALLY hard to scratch the disks because of the hard coating they had to put on due to the data being so close to the surface. Sure it makes them more expensive to manufacture but it also forces them to manufacture them well, because a shoddy disk will not work at all whereas on DVD I have a ton of DVDs that were not glued together properly and I am sure will start to separate and fail in years to come.
HD DVD on the other hand stuck the layers together the same way as DVD so still left it wide open for poor mass production.
Blu ray disks just feel so solid compared to DVD/HD DVD due to the thicker back layer. Its good to be able to accidentally drop a disk and them brush the dust off with an easy wipe from your clothing, without leaving a single spec of dust or scratch on the surface because its so glossy.
