Blu-ray Vs. HD DVD not as close as expected... (Official- HD-DVD Dead)

[Table 5]

Barnes, Im holding out for the Macbook Pro...hopefully it will be a significant upgrade, I'm tired of holding out.

[redforever]

Another small victory for Blu-ray

http://technology.sympatico.msn.cbc....abc&date=False

[Burninator]

I've noticed that Futureshop and Bestbuy haven't been advertising HD DVD players in the last couple weeks of flyers.

[HotHotHeat]

It's clear bluray has won. The HDDVD camp is more less liquidating the products they've already made. They owe it to their investors to put up a fight until the bitter end, but they 're not ######ed.

Interesting to see the OP call this one way back when.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

It's clear bluray has won. The HDDVD camp is more less liquidating the products they've already made. They owe it to their investors to put up a fight until the bitter end, but they 're not ######ed.

Interesting to see the OP call this one way back when.

I'm not sure if I misjudged:
a) how much money Sony was willing to spend to get studio support
or
b) how much the studios were going to want the additional digital rights management at the cost of higher creation/disc production costs (even though the DRM will be hacked within days of any update)

[worth]

Toshiba HD-A3 players are going for $150 at futureshop. Unreal. When the HD-A1 came out it was going for like $800. And that was pretty much only a year ago.

[Russic]

I realize this sob story has probably been written throughout this thread, but I know a guy who spent 800$ on his hd-dvd player and a further 300$ on movies. I can think of few things that would burn more then that. I suppose maybe if he did that and lived in Edmonton it would be the ultimate slap in the face.

[HotHotHeat]

Toshiba expected to abandon HD DVD format in the coming weeks, and Walmart goes BD exclusive in June.

The Toshiba announcement will be the final nail in the coffin, it would include the TV players as well as the Satellite Laptops currently being made with HD DVD drives.

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-987...g=2547-1_3-0-5

[photon]

Yup, this one's pretty much over I think.

Too late to sell my HD-DVD's? Maybe I'll try trading them in at a trader place.

[Prototype]

When these both hit the consumer market, I would have swarn that HD-DVD would have won the battle for two main reasons... the simplicity of the name, and the reputation of SONY. I would have put money on it that HD would have come out on top.

It's almost still worth buying the player and movies now to get them at an awesome price. Sure... the player will be considered archaic, but I'd imagine that without any compitetion, the Blu-Ray players will still have a heafty price tag, and movies for the time being will still be $30+.

I'd almost buy Transformers and an HD Player for under $200, then to buy it when it comes out on Blu-Ray.

[Russic]

Originally Posted by Prottotype

When these both hit the consumer market, I would have swarn that HD-DVD would have won the battle for two main reasons... the simplicity of the name, and the reputation of SONY. I would have put money on it that HD would have come out on top.

It's almost still worth buying the player and movies now to get them at an awesome price. Sure... the player will be considered archaic, but I'd imagine that without any compitetion, the Blu-Ray players will still have a heafty price tag, and movies for the time being will still be $30+.

I'd almost buy Transformers and an HD Player for under $200, then to buy it when it comes out on Blu-Ray.

I agree with you about the name. I always thought blurays name would hurt it.

I don't agree with you on the reputation of sony though. Many people interested in video games have a hate-on for sony, but outside of that realm sony is generally considered a safe name brand.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Russic

I agree with you about the name. I always thought blurays name would hurt it.

I don't agree with you on the reputation of sony though. Many people interested in video games have a hate-on for sony, but outside of that realm sony is generally considered a safe name brand.

Unless you bought a mini-disk.
....or one of their MP3 players that would only play the ATRAC format
....or one of their Memory-Stick items
....or bought a Sony Music CD with a root kit on it

Sony has made a number of mis-steps in recent history.

[I_H8_Crawford]

Deep Discount is selling off HDDVDs for as low as $12!!!
Only $6 shipping to Canada.
I picked up a bunch today
May as well load up on cheap HD Movies, no use waiting for the $30 BluRay version.

http://www.deepdiscount.com/viewcate...rice&count=500

[mrdeeds]

Well, the fat lady is doing her vocal warms right now, Wal-Mart will be going Blu by June.

http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/2317/206/

[I_H8_Crawford]

Originally Posted by Prottotype

When these both hit the consumer market, I would have swarn that HD-DVD would have won the battle for two main reasons... the simplicity of the name, and the reputation of SONY. I would have put money on it that HD would have come out on top.

It's almost still worth buying the player and movies now to get them at an awesome price. Sure... the player will be considered archaic, but I'd imagine that without any compitetion, the Blu-Ray players will still have a heafty price tag, and movies for the time being will still be $30+.

I'd almost buy Transformers and an HD Player for under $200, then to buy it when it comes out on Blu-Ray.

Hehe that's exactly what I did - $50 for the player, $20 for Transformers.

[Lanny_MacDonald]

Man, did we get lucky on this one. I bought HD DVD just before Christmas and got a bunch of HD DVDs to go with it. Shortly after Christmas all the annoucements came out about the format alliances. We took our player back to Best Buy and hey let me trade it in for the top of the line PS3 and gave me straight exchanges for the movies. We dodged a huge bullet there and are really happy we made the change. Blue-ray is indeed a better format than HD DVD (although a lot of that is production) and we got a great gaming console out of the mix too.

[greerb]

Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald

Man, did we get lucky on this one. I bought HD DVD just before Christmas and got a bunch of HD DVDs to go with it. Shortly after Christmas all the annoucements came out about the format alliances. We took our player back to Best Buy and hey let me trade it in for the top of the line PS3 and gave me straight exchanges for the movies. We dodged a huge bullet there and are really happy we made the change. Blue-ray is indeed a better format than HD DVD (although a lot of that is production) and we got a great gaming console out of the mix too.

How is Blu-Ray a better product? I have both and visually there is no difference. Audio, well not much difference either though I do like the uncompressed PCM track on BD. Fox who is BD exclusive only has a DTS-MA track on it, the PS3 can't decode that audio track. As far a special feature go. HD DVD could do the online special features from day one. BD is just coming out with Profile 2.0 witch can do the online special features, btw there aren't many players out that meet the 2.0 spec, other than the PS3.

[Canada 02]

Format war is over. Toshiba reported to concede

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...echnology/home

[I_H8_Crawford]

Can't wait for the $10 or less HDDVD deals to come out now... good way for me to pick up some HD movies I want without the $30 premium I will have to pay for my Blu-ray ones.

[Lanny_MacDonald]

It looks like it is officiall over now.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080217/japan_toshiba.html