more and more HDTVs are being sold, so people will care once they get one.
don't mind advocate, he only makes $2/hour.
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more and more HDTVs are being sold, so people will care once they get one.
don't mind advocate, he only makes $2/hour.
I've been working at two retail stores since they both came out and neither store has ever sold even a single disc of either format, let alone a player. What's your point? You own one and know others that do? I can gaurantee that for every person you know that owns one I've dealt with at least a few hundred that don't. Our personal experience doesn't matter in the slightest here.Quote:
Originally Posted by TobalRox
I own an HDTV and I haven't bought either format, nor will I until they make a standard or until Samsung releases their dual-format player (provided they get around to that).
In any case, you brought up marwan as an example. If Sony used squirrel shit as a memory card he would hype it.
Exactly... As I work and show more and more people the format, the people with HDTVs are very excited and are just waiting for the price of HD-DVD to go down (no one wants Blu-Ray save for a few people).Quote:
Originally Posted by marwan
I work at one retail store and I've sold probably around 10-15. Not a lot, but it still means I've sold some. They were all HD-DVD except for one. There's this one guy that comes in every week to see if anything new came out and he has BOTH formats. He bought the Blu-Ray at our store. We sold another player there too, but we don't carry the HD-DVD player (yet, we sell that many discs... so what's that tell you?). You're right though, my experience doesn't mean anything since it's one area. But shit is definitely picking up, and with more and more titles coming out (esp. with day and date releases) you'll see more people interested. I deal with a ton of people that don't have a player either, but as I said, they are waiting for the price to drop, or they don't have an HDTV. That doesn't mean no one cares.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris
I waited for the combo player, then I saw Blu-Ray and laughed. I realy don't care about blu-ray at all. I used to, I don't anymore. I believe that it's even possible for both formats to co-exist if combo players came out... but there is just nothing that impresses me about Blu-Ray, yet everyday I find more and more I like about HD-DVD.Quote:
I own an HDTV and I haven't bought either format, nor will I until they make a standard or until Samsung releases their dual-format player (provided they get around to that).
PS3 should help boost BD players sales. it's just a matter of time. Even if the PS3 has slow sales to begin with, it'll still help boost BD sales and familiarize people with the format.
and if BD fails, PS3 will always be there to keep it afloat.
Either that or it becomes a burden by forcing developers to create games with a dead disc format in mind (see: PSP)Quote:
Originally Posted by marwan
PS3 will help player sales? That doesn't make any sense... unless you mean sales of players counting the system as a player. If so, then yes, it will help. But that means that there will be 400,020 players sold at PS3 launch ;) Esp. with that crap logo on the PS3 game cases, it makes it look like Blu-Ray is for PS3 only, much like UMD is PSP only (even though that's not the case with the PS3) and that will hurt it... but at least it's on your TV, unlike UMD. So as usual, only time will tell, but I just do not see Blu-Ray succeeding.Quote:
Originally Posted by marwan
This is what I see as being the reality of what will happen. Although I see it being like GameCube where it's just accepted that that is the format for the game system, so it won't be a big deal. It doesn't have limitations of a specialized format like the GameCube discs do/did, so developers won't mind so much (except for the higher cost)... so it'll be fine as a game format, it just won't work as a home video format.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrialSword
oops, i meant PS3 will help boost BD sales. my bad.
I wonder if people will bitch at HD-DVD cases when they buy the HD-DVD player for the 360.
http://www.248pm.com/proxy/index.php...rge%2F2966.jpg
EDIT: where's Andy when you need him.
HD-DVD are ugly as well. It's really amazing that we have two huge new video formats, NEITHER of which can bother to spend a bit of money on somebody who knows at least something about design and packaging.
As I mentioned in the other thread, people need to know when it's a different format. And there aren't games coming to HD-DVD, so it's fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by marwan
http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/14/r...scs-will-play/
samsung players will play dual layered