LOL @ HD-DVD

[ElCapichan]

I was looking at a release list up to like may.

There are at least 5x more blu ray dvd's coming out than hd.

And to make matters worse, most of the HD DVDs coming that are worth picking up are the lame combo discs that make them just as expensive or more so than some BluRay discs. Damn you Universal.

[Dolemite]

Blu-Ray's don't have any special features? Almost all of my HD-DVDs have just as much stuff as the regular DVDs.

Nope, Blu-Rays just come with the HD movie and uncompressed audio. No extras. Whoopee.

[Chux]

That really irritated me. The only one I got like that was the departed, and only because I got it for $19. Fuck that noise. If I wanted a DVD version, I'd buy the dvd version.

[ElCapichan]

Nope, Blu-Rays just come with the HD movie and uncompressed audio. No extras. Whoopee.

casino royale has some extra features, but nothing great. Crap features fo a crap movie. (I can already feel the heat from the flames)

[George]

Too early in the game in my opinion. With such a miniscule userbase for both formats, a numbers advantage doesn't mean much until they've both reached their cheapest point.

[Space Pirate Roberts]

I've seen plenty of two-sided discs, but the only one that actually had the movie broken up on two sides needing to be flipped in the middle was A Time to Kill. Boy did that piss me off. The rest had movie on one side, extras on the other, or full-screen on one side, wide on the other, or even different movies on each side.

In any case, I despise dual-sided discs and wish both HD standards would have banned them entirely. They're just a way to cheap out on disc production cost at the expense of product durability.

[haohmaru]

So were DVD players.

Laser Discs were a format that never competed on the same scale as DVD's. They were a complete niche product that served select videophiles that plunked down $39-$59 per movie to play on uber expensive players. There weren't that many "flipping" players to begin with and when they finally did come down to a reasonable price it was because the format was dead.

When I got my DVD/Laser combo player that flipped LD's, it was about $800+ and it was within the first year that DVD's hit the market and started destroying laser discs as a format.

[MechDeus]

Laser Discs were a format that never competed on the same scale as DVD's.

I was wondering how long it was going to take someone to point this out (which is the only real counter-argument here as price fluctuation and disc design would've evolved with time and consumer money just like DVDs).

I was just making a point about the progress of formats and why a person would buy one over another, not the actual real-world integration of LD. Cheebs said that DVDs did so great was because they offered so many improvements, yet the previous format which offered all those same improvements did not take the world by storm. DVDs offered the same upgrade (besides physical size) that HD-DVD/Blu-Ray offers, so obviously there were other factors at work that led to DVDs success besides what the discs themselves offered.

[Manic Miner]

lol @ Diff-chan for loling at Bluray.

you shoulda' loled at HD-DVD suckaaaa

[Error]

Laserdisc failed because people weren't ready to ditch VHS just yet, and because the physical size of the disks themselves was much too large. Plus the market really wasn't ready for the advantages yet. Surround sound wasn't exactly for houses at that point, it was for movie theaters.

DVD came around when people were ready to upgrade from VHS, when Surround Sound Stereo's weren't uncommon and were gaining in popularity, and the size of the disc was much more palatable for people.