4Jan/086
Warner Bros goes Blu Ray exclusive, Want to buy my HP HDDVD set for $300?
Warner Brothers Studios is announcing at CES that they are going to Blu-Ray exclusively, dealing a blow to my 2 HDDVD players. On the bright side, I guess my Harry Potter gift set will be very expensive soon on eBay allowing me to clean up.
If Microsoft is really in this HDDVD war they need to make the 360 have HDDVD built in, or this battle is just about over. It sucks, because I prefer HDDVD...so right now we have Universal and Paramount while they have WB, Disney, and Sony. I guess HDDVD will be Betamax -- it's better but not going to win....sigh.
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January 4th, 2008 - 17:18
Boy, I think I’m going to sell off the first 4 HP’s that I just bought on HD DVD. I just want to have the whole series on a single format. I should be able to at least break even on them.
January 4th, 2008 - 18:07
Dan, I’m curious why you prefer HD DVD.
January 4th, 2008 - 18:25
HD DVD is better? Please enlighten…
January 4th, 2008 - 19:36
I have a PS3 (Blu-ray), HDDVD player by Toshiba and teh 360 HDDVD player.
There’s no doubt in my mind that I prefer the internet access, easy updates, menus, features and overall picture quality of the HDDVD players.
That being said, it’s not that BD is bad. The picture itself is actually quite good. I just prefer HDDVD. I don’t buy BDs, but I do buy HDDVDs
I also preferred the Dreamcast over the PS2 when the battle first started, so it seems I have a tendency to back losers. Go Orioles!
January 4th, 2008 - 21:30
I’m not sure that a 360 with a built in HD-DVD player is going to make a difference. I have a feeling that the people who would be most jazzed by that combo have already bought a 360 and wouldn’t be thrilled with buying one again. Plus, with the 360′s crappy reliability track record, there’s no way I would buy a 360 with an HD-DVD over a dedicated Toshiba player. At least the PS3 isn’t breaking all over the place.
January 6th, 2008 - 05:56
Much like Dan, I have both formats (well, 360 Add-On and PS3). So, I really could care less who wins the supposed “war”. However, it really irritates me that the HD-DVD Consortium is playing the innocent victim on this. Which was the first group to pay off a studio for exclusive support? Paramount anyone? HD-DVD paid 150 million to get Paramount … at about the same time Transformers was going to be released on Hi-Def. Are we suppose to think that was a coincidence? HD-DVD started this dirty little game (I am not naive … Blu would have done the same thing if they were losing), they just didn’t throw enough money at the right studio. So spare us the theatrics HD-DVD. If you start slinging sh#t, don’t come crying when you get smelly.