16-02-2008, 22:25 | #1 |
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HD-DVD Dead?
After Walmart said it's gone Blueray exclusive, rumour has it Toshiba is gonna kill HD-DVD in the next couple of weeks. Indeed people are saying they're already shutting down factories.
Did the better format win? Anybody seen/used both?
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16-02-2008, 22:31 | #2 |
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I've never seen either but personally at the moment I'm not fussed about it. Besides MS said if blueray became the format the consumer used we can expect a player to arrive soon
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No doubt there will come a time soon enough where I have to switch to a different format but I'll wait till nearer the time to do so. It's cheaper!
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16-02-2008, 22:34 | #4 |
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Aye, I deliberately stayed away from any sort of HD media until someone won it. I can see the appeal of it but didnt want to wast my money!
I'd have bet on HD-DVD simply because of Sony's track record with their own formats - good thing I didn't!
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The blue ray rips I've seen are excellent but we don't buy enough films to care at the minute.
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I'm just happy that one of the formats is going, I really didn't care which survived and I think that the sooner it happens the better for everyone. Well, except those who spent a lot of money on HD-DVD but it's not as though the stuff they've got will stop working.
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17-02-2008, 00:12 | #7 |
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I've not seen either in the flesh but I've got HD rips from both sources. Never really noticed which is which. Like others I've waited for a winner before even thinking about it. I haven't bought a dvd in years simply because I'll have to rebuy it on the fancy smanchy "HD" version. I just know there'll be another release of Star Wars in HD. Then the originals and so on. So for now, HD rips till it settles down.
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17-02-2008, 00:28 | #8 |
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Sadly, it does look like that Bluray has won this round. But as 2k and 4k tv's are now starting to make an appearance - I can't see it lasting that long.
Watch Sony turn on all the DRM on Bluray disks now. The main problem with HD is, it's not that much of a step up from DVD. I've got a HD-DVD and Bluray drive and several films on each - most of the differences are not particularly noticable from the normal viewing distance. 8k HD does look mightly impressive though. Not really available yet sadly. I first of went for HD-DVD because: 1) It's not Sony - I fully expect any Sony kit to fail within weeks of me buying it. 2 TV's, 3 DVD players, many minidisk players and lots of other stuff all failed within 6 months of purchase 2) Sony's track record of their own formats. Minidisk? Betamax? UMD? The only oen I can think of that has succeeded is CD, and that was primarilly designed by Phillips who sony then really pissed off by adding in.... DRM... and not making it CD compatible.
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I'm another one who was waiting for one format to prevail before buying. I must say, I agree with Flibster in that I was hoping it wouldn't be Sony. I'm not a big Sony fan because of the DRM nonsense and the crippled European PS3s which were more expensive than the better specced US ones. I haven't had much in the way of hardware problems with Sony, I just object to some of their underhand business practices.
I'll wait for confirmation that HD-DVD is dead and then wait a few months more until the price of players and drives starts to come down to sensible levels. I don't watch a lot of movies so it's not vital I have one but my desire to have the latest technology (at least as far as the PC is concerned) is well known and will drive me to have one
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Eventually it'll be an appealing games platform too (both in terms of cost and game library). Quite a turn around really considering where they were 12 months ago.
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