BluRay Vs HDDVD

[Lucky 275]

The cool thing about the $98 HD-DVD is that if you use HDMI, it will upconvert Standard DVDs, and the Xbox will as well. Not that my kids care, but our Disney DVDs look much better with the upconversion than on my older Toshiba Tivo/DVD player.

[da.bell]

Newest support for movies is about 50/50. The link above is from 2005. Many have jumped ship or gone cross platform. The bigger studios are HD-DVD. Sony has Disney, and so far is its only saving grace.

Ah, Disney is big but the pornographic industry has which format? I thought it was HD DVD...

[Domsz06]

where are you guys getting $98 HDDVD players?

[ragboy]

We recently got the entire matrix trilogy on HD, and rewatched. That was fun.

[ragboy]

Ah, Disney is big but the pornographic industry has which format? I thought it was HD DVD...

HDDVD, because bluray has snubbed them.

[ragboy]

where are you guys getting $98 HDDVD players?

Walmart, and the like, a bunch available on black friday. Keep looking.

[da.bell]

The Harry Potter movies are coming out next week on HD DVD.... $120 will be worth every penny.

[Guest]

Walmart had a sale back in early November, they went really fast. My brother found out about it online. They were 1080i players, my guess is that they were getting rid of them since all the new TV's are 1080p. The 1080p model was closer to $200 I believe.

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34650/97/

[ragboy]

no, they are not closeouts, just the cheaper hd players don't go to 1080P. This is HD-DVD getting cheap players out there to try to kick bluray's ***.

I think Sony thought the PS3 was going to be thing that won it for them, now that it isn't, they have to come up with another game plan.

[Domsz06]

thanks for the info guys.

[ragboy]

oops, wrong thread, removed.

[da.bell]

The lowering of the PS3 will surely give the blueray people more lift and probably start selling the product a little more. However, I find it odd that over the Black Friday weekend, I think I saw an article that said that BlueRay sold 1000:1 over HD DVD... I have to go find the article and post into here. But again, I think it was a survey taken at the Best Buy stores....

[Domsz06]

well you can poll for any results you want

[ragboy]

I haven't seen that, but that doesn't make sense, bluray is so much more expensive. That would mean that disney is more of a factor than I thought, cuz I can't think of any other reason.

[spharis]

Sony is paying mucho deniro to have Best Buy and Target employees sell consumers on BluRay being a better format. This is why I said to tell everyone you may talk to that there is no better format from a picture quality point of view. It is the same exact 0s and 1s on the discs; only Sony adds a few proprietary DRM related ones to hinder your use of the media.

Best Buy employees sell that BluRay is a better picture when it simply isn't true. Joe Consumer ends up spending $150-$200 more on a player that doesn't perform any better, AND he will have to purchase the same movies over again to get a standard player version for the kids rooms. HDDVD is almost always HDDVD on one side, and DVD on the other. All the players can use the same disc.

This is NOT a new idea from Sony. They have pushed several brands out of the market using their deep pockets. Ever hear of VPR Matrix....wonder why Best Buy just stopped selling them. It was a great line of computers from Best Buy. Sony forced BB to discontinue selling them b/c they were a much better buy. The one I had was using the same hardware I would have purchased had I built my own. Top notch first run components vs. the typical generic crapola found in a Dell, Sony, or an HP.