Home audio & video: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance?
- 1/29/08 10:02 PM
I resent the format war
by mrzonker - 1/30/08 3:28 PM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I don't really feel the need to upgrade to HD, but even so I don't like being forced to pick which side's movies I want to watch when I buy a player. For a while it looked like combo drives would be the way out of this mess, but they're still way too expensive. I'm planning to sit out both of these formats until well after the dust settles, and maybe skip it all together. Hopefully, HW makers will learn a lesson for the next round - using customers as turf war pawns is a lousy way to sell a product.
I don't care
by ferginrk - 1/30/08 3:30 PM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I agree with the posters that say upconverting plain dvd's is good enough. And if someone does give you a blue-ray disk, use your ps3.
Blu Ray will win, but for what length of time
by kallidad - 1/30/08 3:36 PM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I bit the bullet and bought a Blu-Ray and the picture is beautiful, I don't know that it's any better than HD DVD, but I do think there's a movement to go to one format. I just wonder how long DVD's themselves will last. Now you order movies on cable, and download them, once these means of deliver encompass a high definition format, will we even have DVD's? I doubt it, I really think DVD's won't be around for many more years. What do others think?
Probably for one significant reason...
by cdag - 1/30/08 3:38 PM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
...Microsoft does not fail. This could probably be likened to the JVC VHS, Sony Betamax war, but we do not live in that time anymore. The fact of the matter is that both formats are just interim stops to the inevitable: On Demand Media. Innovators like Apple are peddling it now to early adopters, so it is my feeling that Sony will probably be putting out little post it notepads that say "Never say never again" within eighteen to twenty-four months, as the internet will be loaded with portals to download an HD movie for under five dollars, but there will still be sales of Blue Ray and HD-DVD sets for, say seventy-five dollars or less, for those still wary of the evil internet.
HD-DVD is done for.
by vanquished...again - 1/30/08 3:39 PM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The only problem for Blu-Ray is paramount pictures.
Universal will come around, and eventually I'm sure paramount will come to the Blu Side. I've been saying that Blu-Ray was the winner from the beginning, and now its finally becoming public. HD-DVD is just not worth the investment.
I think hd dvd has a chance .
by alideb - 1/30/08 3:39 PM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It depends on the studios that closed out the hd dvd format if thet decide to stasrt to produce the discs again life will go on .
the public can also come into play all the people that purchased these machines have to put up a stink to get the format going into production again.
Toshiba is doing the right thing by dropping eqiupment prices I think it's too early to declare a winner.
The us is only half the story what's happening overseas is it also going the blu ray way?
Lower prices
by TrackStar1682 - 1/30/08 8:07 PM In reply to: I think hd dvd has a chance . by alidebI bought a Toshiba HD-A3 just recently, partly because prices have dropped so nicely. Exclusive deals with studios are also very much less meaningful to the HD-DVD crowd than they are to the Blu-Ray crowd, as many movies exclusive to one format or another here are available exclusively on the opposite format overseas! The catch to this? Region coding is much more difficult to circumvent on Blu-Ray, as out-of-region HD-DVD's will work fine.
Since this is the case, HD-DVD has a much better future than a lot of people would anticipate.
Good point!
by Cadillac84 - 1/31/08 7:23 AM In reply to: Lower prices by TrackStar1682That's what I hate about SONY -- things like uncircumventable region codes. The idea that I could change my DVD player three or four times and suddenly be unable to use it because it was permanently frozen on Region [X] boggles my mind!
HD Survival
by Gary Wyatt - 1/30/08 3:40 PM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Proprietary technology is always a crap shoot......my guess is Sony loses again here ....price becomes compelling.....especially in light of the US "recession"
HD DVD...On their Way Out
by diadav45 - 1/30/08 3:42 PM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Over the last year I've been checking what movies are available on HD and Blue Ray. It seems most HD DVD selections are Blue Ray. I haven't bought an HD player yet. I'm like a lot of others waiting to see what format wins. Until there is a decisive winner I won't buy. When the dust settles you will see an big increase in players and HD fomatted DVDs.
Peace....Dave
Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance?
by mudogg11 - 1/30/08 3:43 PM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
i don't give a crap about either right now i'm perfectly happy with the current dvd format 4 now because on a 1080i screen there is not much differnce that i can see. so i'm gonna wait to see who ultimatly wins this battle then i will buy them when the price is right
It doesn't matter
by sciggy87 - 1/30/08 3:43 PM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have no intention of buying either format due to the requirement of HDMI ... and will never buy Blu-Ray because it is backed by Sony
That's a bit short-sighted, I think
by Cadillac84 - 1/31/08 7:32 AM In reply to: It doesn't matter by sciggy87I understand your angst, but HDMI is not a big deal. You can overcome that. If you don't have a HDTV, you don't need either new DVD format and HDMI doesn't matter to you.
Being "ill" with SONY is a mark of nobility, certainly; but being "ill" with Micro$oft is equally noble! So, it may be like an election where you dislike both candidates. You have three choices: 1) vote for the one you dislike the least, 2) vote for the one who is likely to do the least damage, or 3) sit it out.
But, don't "sit it out" because of HDMI. 
Economic Recession is on HD-DVD Side.
by lborgen - 1/30/08 3:47 PM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
As much as the Fed are trying to stop it, we are heading into a recession of 2 years if the Republicans win the elections or 3 to 4 years if Hillary wins. That means we will have a long period of time with little or no disposable cash and people (at least I am) will either stick to regular CDs for a while or buy HD-DVD given their price reduction. It will be much more economical to buy HD-DVD hardware and media than Blue-Ray, so unless Blue-Ray significantly cut their prices, good old Green God savings will prevail. Now Why Can’t We All Just Get Alone and have some Chinese electronic produce a machine that will read both HD-DVD and Blue-Ray??? Meantime looks like I’ll just keep using my HD-PVR from FiOS TV. I got burned BIG TIME with Laser Disks before DVDs came out. Anyone old enough to know what they were?
That is so interesting!
by Cadillac84 - 1/31/08 7:48 AM In reply to: Economic Recession is on HD-DVD Side. by lborgenAll the analysis indicates that GROWTH has slowed in the 4th Qtr of 2007. THAT does NOT constitute even the first step of a "recession" which is defined as a DECLINE in Gross Domestic Product for two or more successive quarters.
You are using an ERRONEOUS (TV news?) interpretation which substitues "decline in the rate of growth of GDP" for "DECLINE in GDP."
You need to switch your TV from the "mis-information" networks you are watching and concentrate instead on HD-DVD movies.
There may be a recession ahead --- there surely will be one ahead --- sometime. As our [un]esteemed Surgeon General said in an ill-advised moment of candor, "Everyone's got to die of something!" But, we are not likely to have a recession soon unless Congress raises taxes again to "pay for" some ridiculous thing like pumping CO2 into the ground. An amazing idea!!
Your greater point, that the lower cost of HD-DVD playing equipment is an advantage, is certainly worthy. I hope that works, but SONY is like a giant steamroller and the HD-DVD folks have made some marketing blunders that will be hard to overcome quickly.
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