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Originally Posted by evildick
Don't rule out HD-DVD yet. Its main advantages are that it is cheaper than blu-ray and they can theoretically put a regular DVD movie on one side of the disc and have the HD-DVD version on the other side. So the movie studios can release a DVD that supports both the new HD-DVD players and the old standard DVD players, not leaving anyone out in the cold.
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Major advantage if that comes into play, I'm sure i've read about hybrid blu-ray's doing a similar option also tho.
I'm for a new HD format but having two is going to be stupid. At the moment alot of people have invested major $ in DVD collections. I see a couple of problems here.
1) People aren't going to want to buy ALL the same movies all over again on a new format, especially older media that has already shown its best on DVD.
2) As with DVD I think introductory HD-DVD and BluRay are going to be like the introduction of DVD, barebones, poor quality*, while they tweak the technology, once again probley all original HD-DVD and BluRay will get released again a few years down the track as new special editions, like DVD, already been through that, I dont want to have to buy movies 5 times over.
As a consumer its a very shitty situation.
*before someone flames me, by poor quality i do understand they will look better than DVD, but DVD transfers have come along way since the original disc's especially with color reproductions, artifacting etc, i think the same will occur with people doing these new transfers.