Warner Bros go blu-ray exclusive

[GatorB]

yeah now this format war can mercifully end soon. Bye HD-DVD we hardly knew ye.

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-984...?tag=cnetfd.mt

[marcop]

Who cares? Everything's going to be distributed over the Internet in a few years... these "DVD Wars" are irrelevant.

[tony286]

I have no fucking luck, I pick ibill instead ccbill. I get a hd dvd player instead of bluray.lol To tell you the truth the uprez's look amazing , I will just stick with dvd's

[The Truth Hurts]

my hd collection was about 60/40 in favor of HD-DVD.. mostly because they're usually cheaper... or had better b1g1 sales. (only got about 60 HD/BD total anyway (and roughly 2000 standard dvds))

Got players for both, not gonna toss HD-DVDs out just yet.
They look just as good as the Blu-rays do... no sense rebuying what you already got.

[jakethedog]

YEAH .. i sat on the fence waiting, trying to decide .. PS3 or XBOX .. started seeing tons of DVD release commercials with "BluRay" as a bonus .. got off the pot and bought a killer 80Gb PS3 2 weeks ago .. fantastic .. Sony fucked them selves with the Beta vs VHS fight years ago when beta was a much better product .. finally won one .. again .. yeah !!

[The Truth Hurts]

on that note... i just put in a return for 5 hd-dvds i just got today ... all 5 harry potters... still unwrapped..

and ordered the 5 matching blu-rays.
same b1g1 deal.. same price.


fucking warner brrothers.

[GatorB]

Originally Posted by jakethedog

YEAH .. i sat on the fence waiting, trying to decide .. PS3 or XBOX .. started seeing tons of DVD release commercials with "BluRay" as a bonus .. got off the pot and bought a killer 80Gb PS3 2 weeks ago .. fantastic .. Sony fucked them selves with the Beta vs VHS fight years ago when beta was a much better product .. finally won one .. again .. yeah !!

You do realize that betamax never really died. You know when you see behind the scenes of newscasts and other shows and they say "roll tape" that's betamax they're talking about. The tape, the equipment etc. Has been exclusively for years. I wonder how much Sony has made off that in the last 30 years?

Thank God I picked the right format... The PS3 gives you all I need, and is amazing with a Monster HDMI cable at the helm.

So long HD-DVD! Sony finally won one!

[The Truth Hurts]

Originally Posted by shermsshack

and is amazing with a Monster HDMI cable at the helm.

$4 generic hdmi cables work just as good : )

[alby_persignup]

I'm okay with dvd since most of my players are on dvd.

[GatorB]

Originally Posted by marcop

Who cares? Everything's going to be distributed over the Internet in a few years... these "DVD Wars" are irrelevant.

In a few years you'll be saying

"Who cares? Everything's going to be distributed over the Internet in a few years... these "DVD Wars" are irrelevant"

In a few years after that you'll still be saying

"Who cares? Everything's going to be distributed over the Internet in a few years... these "DVD Wars" are irrelevant"

And in a few years after that you may be right.

32% of American do not have any internet. 17% still use dial up. Of the 51% that have broadband half get 2 Mbps or less speed. Unlike other countries where it's kind of important that everyone has broadband in the US business will only invest in areas where they can make money. And making sure the millions of dial-up users have access to broadband is not economically feasible to them so don't expect any changes soon in that 17% number.

For HD downloads or streaming to be viable you really need at least 10 Mbps. Maybe 5% get that much speed. Even if 100% got that speed who streams at that rate? No one. Not even close.

[GatorB]

Originally Posted by The Truth Hurts

$4 generic hdmi cables work just as good : )

Yeah only a retard would spend all that money for a Moster cable. They are rip off artists.

[dav3]

Don't worry, Sony will still find a way to screw it up.

[Cash]

A major blow indeed, the war could have been solved with combo players ...

[candyflip]

Originally Posted by The Truth Hurts

my hd collection was about 60/40 in favor of HD-DVD.. mostly because they're usually cheaper... or had better b1g1 sales. (only got about 60 HD/BD total anyway (and roughly 2000 standard dvds))

Got players for both, not gonna toss HD-DVDs out just yet.
They look just as good as the Blu-rays do... no sense rebuying what you already got.

I'm pretty much exactly the same. I just crossed the 60 mark today thanks to the Amazon's HDDVD sale last week. Now I'm just waiting on another 10 BR from the new sale. I usually end up with HDDVD because they're cheaper or I can get the DVD/HDDVD combo discs, which are nice.

I don't really care about the "format war". I've got both and will likely use them both for years to come. My LD player still gets some action from time to time.

[zEn84]

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-984...tfd.blogs.item

[V_RocKs]

It will all be moot in 2 years when everything is downloaded to your Tera byte HD in the DVR.

[V_RocKs]

Originally Posted by candyflip

I'm pretty much exactly the same. I just crossed the 60 mark today thanks to the Amazon's HDDVD sale last week. Now I'm just waiting on another 10 BR from the new sale. I usually end up with HDDVD because they're cheaper or I can get the DVD/HDDVD combo discs, which are nice.

I don't really care about the "format war". I've got both and will likely use them both for years to come. My LD player still gets some action from time to time.

Interesting... You buy DVD's through Amazon and I sale them...

Yeah.. I really enjoy it when they have a sale on shit!

Originally Posted by GatorB

Yeah only a retard would spend all that money for a Moster cable. They are rip off artists.

I actually did try a generic cable that a friend had bought in a package deal. Being as my TV is a bit larger that most and I have the surround mounted behind me, I did see some picture degradation and I heard a slight hiss. I went to best buy, snagged the monster cable and believe it or not, I did see and hear a slight difference. It wasn't night and day, but it was enough to not make me want to return the cable and get my $60 back.

Thanks for the kind words though. Always fun to see people spewing shit from their mouths when it's unnecessary. Also, thanks for the retard comment. My aunt had down syndrome and passed young. When people fling that insult around, I can differentiate the witty from the people who can't find a better insult. After all...only 8 year olds find a disability funny.

[aico]

Originally Posted by GatorB

You do realize that betamax never really died. You know when you see behind the scenes of newscasts and other shows and they say "roll tape" that's betamax they're talking about. The tape, the equipment etc. Has been exclusively for years. I wonder how much Sony has made off that in the last 30 years?

Ya, what he said. Betamax just failed at the consumer level, it was the standard at the professional level.