Home audio & video: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance?
- 1/29/08 10:02 PM
As Long as HD-DVD has exclusive Top Titles
by CabLover - 1/30/08 9:56 PM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
HD- DVD will only survive ONLY as long as it can hold onto exclusive top movie titles. If Parmount and Universal go neutral or side with Blu Ray then it's all over, but the singing.
No
by Elkal900 - 1/30/08 10:28 PM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
No. Obviously blue is much more attractive than brown.
Beta/VHS War reflecting on the HD-DVD/BR War
by Ikkeson - 1/30/08 11:36 PM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Well, first of all let me say that I am not eager to buy any of these HD configuration, because of the simple fact that I want to choose myself which movies I want to see. This is for the moment impossible because of these exclusive contracts some film studios have with the HD or BR consortium. But what I remember of the Beta/VHS war is that the war was won by VHS because of 1 big issue: adult content. As far as I can remember the Beta consortium was against the release of adult content on their players. And what do we see now. That the BR consortium is doing the same thing. Sony clearly said a few months ago that they are not giving licenses for BR to the adult entertainment sector, who are because of massive piracy looking for a system that is more secured then DVD. I can only hope that 1 of the 2 High Definition systems wins, not because of content, but because of quality and that we can go on to a next level, because this is slowing things down on the R&D of alot of companies.
HD-DVD May Survive Depending on the Circumstances
by galvang - 1/31/08 12:04 AM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If the hardware manufactures can develope a cheap dual mode player that can accomadate the two different DVDs then HD-DVD may survive a longer life span. If the hardware manufactures do not develope a cheap dual mode player then HD-DVD will head towards extinction sooner rather than later. I believe BlueRay won this round.
In terms of having a storage media to store all of the new HD movies, I personally do not find that practical. I store lots of DVDs movies here in my house and with HD content having a very large data files you will need a fairly large harddrive or other storage device that can store lots of HD movies. Its sounds expensive. I like the idea of pulling a disk of my rack and viewing it in my player. Trying to turn HD movies into a IPOD like format may not be as practical for movies as with music. IMHO
Dirty Blu-ray People
by TheJoBoo - 1/31/08 12:55 AM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
So, big companies with wealthy people get to spread around bonus payments for other parties to join their format. We don't actually get to decide which one we'd prefer. If that were true, consumers would want the less expensive but equally high-quality HD-DVD. Why can't the greedy corporations be satisfied to piggyback on the success of DVD and market the very-easy-to-swallow name of an HD-DVD. It's DVD, but it's HD. Go ye therefore and sell billions! I can only hope that HD digital downloads arrive in time to burn Sony and pals for this Blu-ray debacle. May long-time Sony fans wake up and discover that your new XBR LCD is a completely average TV at best with a great looking trim package.
Will HD DVD survive?
by FMichael - 1/31/08 1:18 AM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Only if the maufacturers of the HD DVD players can smuggle a VHS tape into the cage match, & use it as a weapon later on - (think folding chair).
If that tactic doesn't work - then I'm afraid HD DVD is down for the count.
HD DVD already lost long before Warners decision
by varun8 - 1/31/08 2:35 AM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I ahve been folowing the Blu-Ray versus HD DVD format was for a while and always thought that due to the Playstation 3 eventually Blu Ray would win. I travel a lot world wide and in the second half of 2007 it became obvious that HD DVD had no chance. I will list my reasons here:
1. It is the availability of material that drives the success of a format. The players may be cheaper for HD DVD, but the HD DVD titles are generally the same price as Blu Ray. However tehre have been more low price offers from Blu Ray and the number of titles available in the shops for Blu Ray is bigger. herefore the fact that the HD DVD player itself is cheaper is irrelevant.
2. Global markets are increasingly more important and in many countries HD DVD titles are barely available if at all. In backwater Ukrainian towns you can find Blu ray titles being stocked, but never any HD DVD. I saw the same in Cyprus, Russia, Belarus etc.
3. Playstation 3 is gaining ground and that makes for more and more households that can see Blu Ray titles.
I think it is over for HD DVD other than as an add-on to the XBOX
Blue ray has a price
by ViroCMN - 1/31/08 3:46 AM In reply to: HD DVD already lost long before Warners decision by varun8To give Sony the license to dictate is a mistake, People think hey the play-station is ultra cool and it beats anything. Yeah right, I'd like to add that my PC is much better than any play-station and besides a play-station doesn't have a Tera-byte hard drive. Its people are lead to think that smaller is better. The mindset is so obvious that u see that in the women of today and the Chinese women of yesterday. Smaller is not necessarily better. Blu-Ray may have the upper hand but the players are the key and so far HD has managed to clinch the hardware title. The fact remains that Nokia is better than Sony and HD is better than Blu-Ray in terms of user friendliness.
HD will survive
by bejowa - 1/31/08 3:14 AM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
HD is universal in TV receivers and other fixed entertainment players in my country
What is the choice of the buying public???
by john3347 - 1/31/08 3:54 AM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I, personally, do not buy or rent movies, so this battle does not really affect me. A big question in my mind would be why Warner Bros. decided to drop HD. Was this decision driven by some kind of under counter agreement with the blu-ray patent holder or was it strictly a supply and demand situation where the buying public was overwhelmingly demanding blu-ray? If it was the former, then the buying public has an obligation to themselves to, in effect, boycott Warner and force them to reverse their decision. If, on the other hand, the overwhelming majority of buyers demand blu-ray over HD, then it was a responsible business decision and one would expect others to follow suit soon. Personally, I don't like the name "blu-ray", and for that reason would like to see it die. I also don't like the name "Google" either; and do not use it and would like to see it die. I think a lot of these dot com companies need to put a whole lot more thought into the names they place on their products; but that is a different thread.
hd reminds me of beta max
by maggiedev - 1/31/08 4:53 AM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
i am afraid hd ia going to go the way of the old beta max. matters little to me as i have over 1000 titles on standard format. i have three new hdtv's and am quite happy with my 2 year old home theatre system, one upconverter and a 4 year old dvd recorder/player. they all work beautifully. if it looks like standard players will go the way of the dinasaur, i will go out andy buy half a dozen. i am 60 so that will last the rest of my lifetime. i think the wars are silly. players should be like vhs/dvd. make a player with both formats. until all is decided and the prices come down, i will buy standard. i refuse to be suckered into paying the horribly high prices. my standard movies sure look beautiful being played on my standard player on my three new hd tv's. by the way, if the industry was smart enough to make a player that handled both formats, they could make all the disks both formats to. just flip over to chose your favoite format. just like they do for wide screen viewing vs. full screen viewing. all this is just a way to make people pay more, more, more. get it together industry.. some of us aren't suckers
hd dvd
by rjclark - 1/31/08 4:59 AM In reply to: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
no it's a dead body lppking for a grave. It's a repeat of the vhs/beta format war. It had nothing to do with what was better, but who marketed smarter. By the way, Beta 20 years ago was a better machine than VHS today.
Back Then
by ViroCMN - 1/31/08 6:27 AM In reply to: hd dvd by rjclarkBack then it was still the space race, now its the money race, things have changed. Lets use a good angle, beta and vhs was the space race, Blue ray and HD is the money race, old way of thinking = old war methods = space race, new war methods = money race, Old war = tanks and soldiers, New war = nuclear and Bio. What fuels war? Money? What fueled this war of formats, Money? Its a case of the BIG get bigger and rich get richer cause they win wars with money. At the end of the day we pay towards corporations cause they want us 2, even make us 2. At the end of the day its who thinks for themselves that will be happy with what they buy.
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