LOL @ HD-DVD

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Originally Posted by Schlep

Why would you buy HD-DVD's when you can only watch them so long as your player works?

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Blu-Ray works even on broken players? That's amazing!

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Originally Posted by Schlep

Why would you buy HD-DVD's when you can only watch them so long as your player works?

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cost of blu-ray now > cost of hd-dvd now + cost of blu-ray later

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

Blu-Ray works even on broken players? That's amazing!

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Why do you think it won?

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

Here's what would happen.

1: You pick up Old School and Hot Fuzz on the cheap
2: You buy more Blu-ray discs because HD-DVD is deal and everything cool is on Blu-ray
3: A year or so from now, you'll look at your copies of Old School and Hot Fuzz on HD-DVD, realize they're the reason you have to keep a crummy HD-DVD player around and hooked up, and come to loathe those movies.
4. You realize that this is crummy reason to hate movies, and come to loathe yourself.
5. You come online to castigate shidoshi and find crappy things to card him on, thus making yourself feel much better, or at least good enough to hunt HD-DVDs at local thrift stores. Return to step 1.

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

Blu-Ray works even on broken players? That's amazing!

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http://www.ilovewavs.com/Effects/Music/RimShot.wav

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

Why do you think it won?

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Sparkle fairies and magic gnomes.

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Originally Posted by Schlep

http://www.ilovewavs.com/Effects/Music/RimShot.wav

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Well, it was pretty a inane comment. I couldn't help myself.

No it wasn't. If Toshiba no longer makes the players, there's going to come a time when you can no longer watch your movies.

One day, all the dvd players will die too.

Good that they'll still work in pretty much every other disc-based media device ever then.

But they will all die too, or we die before them.