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OK. This will just be a pure stab in the dark survey. Let's try to keep the editorial comments to a minimum too. Place your vote, and make a brief comment as to why you voted the way you did. Maybe you like Blu-Ray because it has a cool name, that is OK. maybe you like HD-DVD because it came out first, that is OK too. Maybe you have some deeper technical information to share, do it. Just try to keep them to a small, easy to review list. Too bad we couldn't all pitch in a dollar when we place our vote, and then which ever side 'wins' in 3 years, they could collect the pool of money. This is meant to be fun folks.  Results will be viewable in 1 month at midnight Eastern time.
Blu-Ray! (32%, 24 Votes)
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HD-DVD! (41%, 30 Votes)
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Standard DVD will never die! (27%, 20 Votes)
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My vote goes to HD-DVD. I am not one to support proprietary formats, such as Sony is going to release. What's with that...just support it all, I say!
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I support neither. What with rather draconian copy protection built in, competing standards that have actually made it to market instead of being worked out beforehand, and the sheer arrogance of all the companies promoting them, they both deserve the dustbin of history.
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I want to view the poll results.
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I am thoroughly enjoying HD-DVD movies with my Axiom speakers(have had for two weeks, waiting for the EP500 to arrive), Pioneer Elite 74TXVi, and Panasonic AE900 720p projector. The picture and sound are excellent! 
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HD-DVD looks superior (at least for now). When Sony gets their dual-layer and encoding worked out, things may change. They will suffer the next few months due to inferior image quality, and the price point as compared to Toshiba. These are two huge factors in getting someone to make the jump. Blu-ray just wasn't quite ready yet in my opinion. If the roles were reversed and HD-DVD debuted with poor image quality, at twice the cost- it would be over. Sony may pull this out is because they are Sony, and the product penetration they have with the PS3. Please don't get me wrong, I'm not a Sony basher or anything. I'm just dissapointed with the whole mess. If only both sides could have agreed on the format initially, I'd be spending my money and enjoying High Def DVDs right now. Instead I will have to wait until the smoke clears  Still way too early to know how it will end for sure.
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Quote:
I support neither. What with rather draconian copy protection built in, competing standards that have actually made it to market instead of being worked out beforehand, and the sheer arrogance of all the companies promoting them, they both deserve the dustbin of history.
I would echo Ken's comments. I refuse to spend that much money investing in a technology, not just players but software too, that could become another beta. Because of that I had to vote DVD until they can get this whole mess sorted out.
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How could I forget the Image Constraint Token? Well, it's part of the draconian copy protection, but look for it to show up in a few years. It's on the disks, on the drives, but not enabled. In case you haven't heard of it, if you're using component outputs (or HDMI or DVI that's not HDCP latest version compliant), the movie studios can elect to cut your resolution on a particular disk in half, to 576 lines. Isn't that wonderful?
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Just from reading through the forums, it looks like there is more positive feedback for Toshiba's HD. Time will tell though...
"Never, never, never give up "... Winston Churchill
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I voted BR mostly because im gonna buy PS3.
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