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Re: I have decided: HD-DVD is my winner
HomeDad #153805 12/21/06 02:48 PM
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I'm afraid that Blu-Ray will win, or high-def DVD's will fail all together. As much as I wish HD-DVD would win the format war, the exclusive studios backing Blu-ray control nearly 80% of the Hollywood movies ever made. Just as soon as titles such as James Bond, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean and Spider-man start coming out exclusively on Blu-ray, and the price of their players drops, HD-DVD will be out-sold rather quickly. With only Universal as lone exclusive backer, HD-DVD can't keep ahead for long. Whicj makes me made, because I'd like to upgrade my DVD player, but I'm not buying into a format that will probably loose, and I'm not spending $1500.00 on a top-rate first-gen player.


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Re: I have decided: HD-DVD is my winner
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Was that a DVD or HD DVD that played DTS? I'm very curious about getting a 360 and the HD DVD addon.

Personally Sony pissed me off how they went about creating blu-ray. It just didn't make any sense to me, its "advantages" over HD DVD are virtually meaningless. Yet it costs more so you know who will end up paying for it. That alone has me rooting for HD DVD.




It was a DVD.


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Re: I have decided: HD-DVD is my winner
Bayne #153807 12/21/06 04:16 PM
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I think Hollywood will quickly change its tune when their movies aren't selling enough on blu-ray.
HP who had been a big Blu-Ray supporter and dominates the Media Center PC market, introduced a $100 HD DVD upgrade for their PCs (Sony’s Blu-Ray VIAO solution was just dropped to $749). there is no comparably priced (not even close) solution using Blu-Ray.
As the price of blu-ray players finally drop so will HDDVD players.
It may be to soon to tell and like you I'll buy a console when the prices drop, so who wins to me is irrelevant, but my money is still on HD DVD.


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Re: I have decided: HD-DVD is my winner
HomeDad #153808 12/21/06 04:26 PM
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I hope they both fail miserably.


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Re: I have decided: HD-DVD is my winner
Ken.C #153809 12/21/06 04:37 PM
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Re: I have decided: HD-DVD is my winner
Ken.C #153810 12/21/06 05:59 PM
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Do I dare ask why?

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Re: I have decided: HD-DVD is my winner
jbsengineer #153811 12/21/06 06:43 PM
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I'll take a guess a why....

Unhappiness over two competing formats that couldn't get their act together and settle on one standard, which is what would have been best for consumers. If they can't come to agreement and do what is best for us, he doesn't want success for either. Does that about sum it up?

While I understand the arguement somewhat, I still want one, preferably HD-DVD, to come out on top. If they both fail we miss out on a better format. I'd like all CD's to be SACD as well, or some multichannel format, but that didn't work out so well either.

Re: I have decided: HD-DVD is my winner
Zarak #153812 12/21/06 07:39 PM
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Nope, it's the DRM. HDCP. The bit that the studios can turn on at any time to force you to use HDCP enabled HDMI or it defaults to 540i resolution. I can link articles if you want. It's completely screwing over the consumer in favor of making people pay multiple times for the same content.


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Re: I have decided: HD-DVD is my winner
Ken.C #153813 12/23/06 05:51 AM
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AFAIK the XBOX 360 supports DTS for movies. I swear I've done it-all it should be is a pass through to the AVR..

That said, HD-DVD, Blu Ray, it doesn't matter. Want to see the winner in the next round of the format war? Go to your 'on demand' channel. Or go to the movies download section on the XBOX 360 (or the PS3 I guess, haven't tried it). What rhapsody and napster did for music we'll see done for movies. Five years from now we'll have all you can watch subscriptions and it's going to be wonderful.

In the meantime, I pity people that build up a library of HD stuff with either format. This is a transitional technology-the next 'laser disc'.

So if you want HD movies now (the current subscription content is too compressed for my liking) HD DVD is the way I would go to. Paired with netflix it is marginally cheaper than bluray. Of course if a movie you really had to see in HD was only on blu ray...

Oh, and for the subscription model to work, you need DRM. It isn't unreasonable for a content provider to want to protect their rights to distribute their content.

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Re: I have decided: HD-DVD is my winner
Ken.C #153814 12/23/06 09:45 AM
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Nope, it's the DRM. HDCP. The bit that the studios can turn on at any time to force you to use HDCP enabled HDMI or it defaults to 540i resolution. I can link articles if you want. It's completely screwing over the consumer in favor of making people pay multiple times for the same content.




my feelings exactly.
I already forsee inline devices to manipulate this bit, and the inevitable cat and mouse thereafter.

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