HD-DVD vs. Blue-Ray?

Phasearray
Phasearray Posts: 437
edited December 2008 in The Clubhouse
Which do you think will win the format war?
I'm guessing HD-DVD
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  • Toxis
    Toxis Posts: 5,116
    edited November 2008
    wait, what? If this is supposed to be funny, epic failure.
    Never kick a fresh **** on a hot day.

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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited November 2008
    huh? :confused:
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  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited November 2008
    have the HD players gotten as cheap as regular players yet ?

    I was thinking of getting one just for my office monitor (22" high def)

    but I think the war is over , with the nod going to blu--ray.....unless I missed something !
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  • Phasearray
    Phasearray Posts: 437
    edited December 2008
    Oops!
    http://sellout.woot.com/

    in case you're wondering
    http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/12061.cfm
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,715
    edited December 2008
    Dude, HD-DVD lost the format war back last January when Warner Bros decided to go Blu exclusive. It was just a matter of time after that. Toshiba officially gave up on the technology sometime in the spring. There haven't been any new (or old) movies released on HD-DVD format since early summer. Its a completely DEAD format. You can still get some cheap movies on the format (from places like Inetvideo.com), but for the most part, all the movies are gone from the stores as well.

    I happen to be holding onto about 30 movies in HD-DVD format, most of which I purchased for $5-$10. For that reason, I have a dual format player that can play Blu and HD-DVD, but that is only because it also happens to be an outstanding upscaling DVD player and is quite a capable Bluray player as well.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,725
    edited December 2008
    The Frys locations in Plano and irving still have tons of HD DVD titles, alot for less than 8 bucks and all for under 12...
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  • gtu2004
    gtu2004 Posts: 620
    edited December 2008
    the war is over and bluray won. but toshiba and the stores still need to clear out inventory and they're doing it at giveaway price so it may be worth it to buy the HDDVD player for like $45 with 2 movies and stock in those HDDVDs for movies that are available on both HDDVD+Bluray. It's cheaper that way.
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  • ViperZ
    ViperZ Posts: 2,046
    edited December 2008
    I have Toshiba HD-XA2 HD-DVD player.
    1). This player has a Reon chip for upconversion of standard DVDs, which is awesome!
    2). HD-DVD titles are $5-10 each - I have ~50 of those, mostly bought after HD-DVD lost the war.
    3). HD-DVD is region free, so I have titles from UK, Japan, Germany, Australia and other countries (basically, you can only get these titles on BluRay now days).
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited December 2008
    Before the war was lost/won I had an Xbox HD-DVD player and 3 titles.
    After the defeat, I bought a Toshiba HD-A3 for about $40 (actually I picked up 2) and then started to rack up about 30-40 titles from $5-$10 ea. I figured they were the same price or cheaper than thier Reg DVD counterparts and a better picture to boot. I don't have much time for watching movies so these will last me a long time. Its not like the discs will expire or anything.

    And as said the players will also upconvert reg DVDs as well. Although I use the Pio DV-48AV most of the time since its faster and upconverts to 1080p where my HD-A3 only goes to 1080i.

    There are still quite a few titles still available on the cheap for HD-DVD but of course nothing new will be released so that really is the only negative (for me)
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  • TitaniumMan
    TitaniumMan Posts: 93
    edited December 2008
    Phasearray: HD-DVD isn't dead, it's just resting.

    Entire Polk Forum: Look, matey, we know a dead format when we see one...


    Please don't make me post the rest of the Monty Python "Dead HD-DVD" sketch. :)
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited December 2008
    The next DVD format is scheduled for March 2010. Every BD player is programmed to stop working during that month, forcing you to buy the next greatest DVD format. All your base belongs to us.








    You're gonna just sh$t if I'm right :eek:
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  • Kris Siegel
    Kris Siegel Posts: 309
    edited December 2008
    dkg999 wrote: »
    The next DVD format is scheduled for March 2010. Every BD player is programmed to stop working during that month, forcing you to buy the next greatest DVD format. All your base belongs to us.
    Actually... the BD spec allows for players to be remotely disabled if "invalid" software or hardware configurations are present. As far as I'm aware no company actually has this implemented and I doubt any will (so no conspiracy theories please).
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  • ViperZ
    ViperZ Posts: 2,046
    edited December 2008
    dkg999 wrote: »
    All your base belongs to us.

    All your base ARE belong to us.
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited December 2008
    ViperZ wrote: »
    All your base ARE belong to us.

    I stand corrected :o
    DKG999
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  • BeRad
    BeRad Posts: 736
    edited December 2008
    Everything about this thread is FAIL!
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,516
    edited December 2008
    Ahhh, I so miss the format war threads, they were so much fun.
    If...
    Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
    Ron loves a film = don't even rent.
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited December 2008
    I think Betamax will win.
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited December 2008
    Of course we all know the real reason why VHS won right?
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  • McLoki
    McLoki Posts: 5,231
    edited December 2008
    and why HD-DVD didn't. Some things just are better without that level of detail.....
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited December 2008
    McLoki wrote: »
    and why HD-DVD didn't. Some things just are better without that level of detail.....

    :eek:
    ha-yeah you're probably right on that one.;)
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