Tryphoon’s Lair

Last Thursday,  working on our monthly Lunch 2.0 session, we were looking for a way to open the session with a bang…

Idea soon came that we should declare officialy the death of HD-DVD as all studios have now switched sides (even Dreamworks, yes even Dreamworks!) and Toshiba have officially given up on the format (in exchange of some chips manufacturing plant though).

Then came the BANG concept!

“Let’s SMASH some HD-DVD stuff!”

My first reaction was

“Let’s destroy our HD-DVD player, drop it from the top of the building, drive to the desert with it, shot at it or use black powder and detonate it!!!!”

It didn’t fly, seems that destroying hardware in a violent way for public consumption is not in our work ethos.

So we decided to simply hammer some of the HD-DVD discs we had at work! And yes, I did it!!!

BANG, BANG, BANG: “I declare HD-DVD definitely dead!”

The caveat in this process: I live in corporate America where more law suits are filed every minute than I have days off per year. As a result of this, Mike kindly wrapped the discs cases in a plastic bag to avoid any small piece of disc or case to fly off as a result my smashing and accidentally land in someone’s eye, inevitably resulting in another long and complicated law suit!