LOL @ HD-DVD

[burgundy]

How can you think SD is the best Cheebs!? I Only have SD DVD myself, but a friend has both bluray and HDDVD and they are head and shoulders above SD. I think bluray has the edge, I'd love to see some concert blurays as I think that would be incredible.

Cheebs is actually a dog. That is really him in his avatar. He cannot distinguish colors, dimensions or resolution. But he can sure smell bacon. Oh yes you can, good boy! Ruh roh!

When did DVD fight a format war? Everyone agreed that DVD was going to be the new format.

(Also, I am buying HDDVDs and Blu-Rays by the truckload. In two months, I probably bought half as many of them combined as I own DVDs. And I haven't even gotten my 5 free for each format. Thank you Amazon B1G1F sales!)

[Tones]

What could really help the market out is a no-name company releasing a bare-bones player for cheap. I faintly remember that around the time Apex started making DVD players, the prices as a whole started coming down.

Unfortunately my setup is a bit behind the times right now. I need to buy some more surround speakers so that I can get surround sound again; right now I'm just using stereo with a sub.

I hadn't looked into HD programming for quite a while, but when I paid my cable bill yesterday in person, I asked how much it would be to add HDTV to my basic cable. It's only $5 more for the first year, and I get HBO. (it'll be about $5 more per month after that). I set it up today, and even though my TV is only a 30" CRT, it looks amazing. Thankfully, I got it just when HDMI started being an option, so I still don't have to worry about switching.

[Cheebs]

Cheebs is actually a dog. That is really him in his avatar. He cannot distinguish colors, dimensions or resolution. But he can sure smell bacon. Oh yes you can, good boy! Ruh roh!

Seriously, do not come between me and bacon.

[Shin Johnpv]

you need this http://www.baconsalt.com/

[Schlep]

I'm glad it's over, now get the prices of movies down to realistic levels. I'm out to watch the Superbad BD.

[B-Ri]

Yeah, it's so awful that Toshiba could be the sole manufacturer of HD-DVD players and somehow got them to the consumer at like half the cost of the cheapest Blu-Ray player. I really wish they had the same level of manufacturer competition that Blu-Ray has to keep costs down.

its so not awful that toshiba was screwing over supporting manufacturers by taking big loss on players and really giving consumer no other incentive to buy their partners products?

Blu-Ray players have kept profitable, now that manufacturers dont have to feel like their risking a lot of time on two formats and can focus on competition in a single medium. Thats what will drive prices down.

I picked up the 360 HD-DVD add-on because it was $130 used and I had $100 in gift cards. I'm not an idiot, I knew it was going to be an uphill battle. But I'm not about to run out and buy a BluRay player because of this announcement, Warner will just be losing me as a customer. It's not like I can't download the movies if I REALLY want them bad enough.

no ones telling you you have to run out and get a blu-ray player, but when you decide to you dont have to now feel your taking a risk, or have to miss out on movies you want because with warner going blu, its just paramount waiting out OR dropping out of their contract, and universal coming to their senses. Have fun with the piracy then.

Sony was also the ones pushing for the DRM and Region locking on BR.

no, that was DISNEY for region locking, and that was FOX for DRM.

while one a few BR discs have been region coded, I wouldn't be surprised to see all of them end up that way once HDdvd is gone.

your gripe with region locking lies completely on whoever is making your movie, region locking on blu-ray is optional.

Look at the crap Sony has pulled on CD in the past, putting fucking rootkits on music cds so that if you play them on a PC they install with out telling you or asking for permission, basically leaving a fucking huge ass open door on your PC. Yeah these are the people I want making big decisions on the HD media.

which i will never defend, because it was a stupid move. Stop acting like sony is the ONLY company that has made lousy moves for the consumer. Since then, if you read, sony has now DROPPED DRM off their Sony BGM music, and is making DRM free music available on Amazon.

TNL, HDM is now on the verge of a single format, this is supposed to be all about movies, and now (and hopefully quick enough) we can get all the movies we want in HD on a single format.

[YellerDog]

Yeah. Download 'em.

Disc-based media is going out. The format-war is a moot point.

[Cheebs]

Yeah. Download 'em.

Disc-based media is going out. The format-war is a moot point.

What he said.

SD DVDs will continue selling Blu-ray into the ground. By the time Blu-ray is cheap enough to compete, discs in general will be gone. So........ back to the original sentiment that this thread was founded on:

Lol @ Blu-ray.

[mollipen]

Yeah, it's so awful that Toshiba could be the sole manufacturer of HD-DVD players and somehow got them to the consumer at like half the cost of the cheapest Blu-Ray player. I really wish they had the same level of manufacturer competition that Blu-Ray has to keep costs down.

Do you have any clue why that was the case?

Toshiba was desperately slashing prices on HD-DVD players in an attempt to get more support for HD-DVD, which is headed up by... Toshiba. They were selling their players ate huge losses in the hopes it might help the format get a foothold.

Meanwhile, companies selling Blu-ray players were doing so with a bit of a different hope - actually turning a profit. You know, the entire reason for selling a piece of hardware? No other consumer electronics company would release HD-DVD players because Toshiba was undercutting the standard level of pricing so badly that other companies would either have to also take a huge loss (in order to help support a format that have far, far less invested in), or price their hardware logically and then watch is sit collecting dust because of Toshiba's pricing.

What Toshiba did pricing wise may have been good for the consumer for the time being, but they causes other manufacturers to want nothing to do with the format and its hardware. That isn't exactly a good way to do things.

[Opaque]

This news works out well for me.