Home audio & video forum: Poll: In your opinion, do you think HD DVD has a chance?

Can't afford them anyway. Just have a regular tv and cable service. Works fine for me. Don't watch movies hardly ever and not alot of tv either.

Can't afford them anyway. Just have a regular tv and cable service. Works fine for me. Don't watch movies hardly ever and not alot of tv either.

I am quite sure that the majority of people are going to wait until the format war is over; and I mean OVER!.
I believe this year is the decider, because none of the two formats can afford another year of uncertainty of the customers, and, as a consequence huge potential sales losses!

I recently posted some comments on BD overwhelming market share when it comes to marketable movies. This article states the facts... and its worse for HD DVD than I predicted. 83% market share for movies sold!!!

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/25/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-january/

Of the top 10 HD movies sold... not 1 single HD DVD {for the week ending Jan 20th 2008} was on the list. HD DVD is done, finished, kaput or as they say "going the way of the dodo bird".

Enjoy! D1

I recently posted some comments on BD overwhelming market share earlier. This article states the facts... and its worse for HD DVD than I predicted. 83% market share!!!

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/25/nielsen-videoscan-high-def-market-share-for-week-ending-january/

Of the top 10 HD movies sold... not 1 single HD DVD {for the week ending Jan 20th 2008} was on the list. HD DVD is done, finished, kaput or as they say "going the way of the dodo bird".

Enjoy! D1

I can't understand why anyone would be happy about the demise of the HD-DVD format and I for one am hoping that Microsoft & Toshiba and the few remaining Studios backing this format can find a way to revive it so that it survives as long as the Blu-ray format does. I realize that at this time such a statement seems far-fetched and against all odds, but I'm in total agreement with the writer of the post "We should hope they survive!" Why? Well can anyone explain to me what the benefit(s) will be to us consumers if one format wins out over the other? I personally can't think of one beneficial outcome to us end-users should either of the formats fails. Obviously they'll be substantial benefits to the manufacturers of the players and discs since without the competition of a competing format they'll be able to charge more for their products and they won't be pressured to continually upgrade their technology to keep pace with the competition. But how does that equate into benefits for us consumers? The simple answer is that it doesn't. Then why are there so many people celebrating the (pending) demise of the HD format? That's the one aspect of this whole format "war" that has perplexed me from the beginning!

Why should it matter to Consumer "A" who happens to prefer the features available on the Blu-ray players and disc's, that Consumer "B" prefers the HD format over Blu-ray? As long as they are both available for the consumers to make their own choice over which technology they choose to purchase, why should "A" or "B" care what choice the other is making, or what choice Consumers "C", "D", or "E" make as well? Do normal people get angry with their neighbors because the one on their left owns a Ford while the neighbor on their right owns a Toyota, while they happen to be driving a Chevy? You never read about people getting upset or angry over something like that or what model oven or refrigerator others are buying. That would be pure silliness and thus it rarely if ever happens.

Yet when you read the countless posts that have been written in the last year or so regarding Blu-ray versus HD formats, the opposite is true in way, way, too many cases. It's almost as if people become 'crazed' when the subject of the competing formats comes up and as a result we've created this false belief that it's either got to be one format or the other or no new format at all. That's a pretty sad commentary on the introduction of this new technology and in the end run is only going to cost us consumers more for less.

As someone who owns both an HD player and HD discs and also a Blu-ray disc player and Blu-ray discs, I find this whole format "war" bordering on the ludicrous. Both formats offer fantastic video and audio quality and I would have been content with only having to purchase just one (either one would have done) of the formats instead of purchasing both. But now my savings account is lighter by about $500 while some "Fat-Cat" retailer is laughing all the way to the bank clutching my money in hand, and yet there's still thousands of eventual consumer's out there celebrating the almost certain demise of one format over the other.

So please allow me to ask this question one more time: "What exactly are you celebrating about?"

HD-DVD no longer has a chance; all stores are clearing out HD-DVD players, and even movies. I have yet to hear (within that last month) a sales person tell someone HD-DVD is better, they all seem to show off the Blu-ray players instead. Consumers had not adapted HD-DVD or Blu-ray thanks to the confusion caused by the so called "format war"; now consumers finally feel comfortable spending their money on Blu-ray. It was time either of the formats started disappearing; and I'm glad Blu-ray remained.

No, HD DVD is going under, from what I see. Why would it not go under? Blu-ray has the identical data format and copy-protection. It is superior technology, being able to hold 25GB rather than 15GB. Plus, more studios are moving to blu-ray, and momentum lies in that direction. For HD DVD to win, all those studios would have to spend millions to switch back, and I highly doubt that's going to happen. Also, PS3 uses blu-ray for their games, helping entrench it even more. I see no future of HD DVD; i think it will meet the same fate as betamax.

HD-DVD as a consumer format is now dead. Apart from the actual movies going away from HD-DVD, there's now been so much bad publicity that consumers will insist on Blu-ray.

However, the companies that backed Beta all those years ago didn't just lie down and die. They moved into the professional market, with Betacam. I expect that the HD-DVD consortium will create a new triple-layer format for professional mastering or something like that. HD-DVD will live on, but in a completely different market segment.

The VCR didn't make it, regular DVD players are slowly fading out, we lost cassette tapes and the 8-track. It's only a matter of time before HD-DVD's (and blu-ray) are replaced with some new technology wonder...

its pretty obvious, Online videos and downloads is going 2 win out discs. theres no way that it can lose. it has no restrictions at all in terms of quality, size of anything like that. plus, u cant copy bds or hddvds any where but files from online...

Haha it's 4 years later, what did I say?

BD's, I don't own a single one, yet iTunes, Youtube, Hulu, Netflix, etc I do all the time.

I voted a maybe only because I would not rule out Micro$oft finding a last minute way to subsidize HD DVD player sales and creating "incentive$" for studios to go dual format support.

But I would prefer HD DVD have a quick slide to obscurity.

I wish the HDD guys would catch a wake up! Hello!!! The public supports u Dumn arses!!! No need for a fire sale!!! Idiots!!! Let me give u a hint, the hd player plays dvd right? If your player looks sharp put it on the South African Market!! U will make a killing. South Africans are crazy over cool gadgets... Yo!!! Are any1 reading these forums? Any1 who matters...