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madskillz on 21 October 2007
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twesterm said:
madskillz said:
twesterm said:
That's actually a really nice deal but I still refuse to buy in until there's a clear winner. I really don't want to have the risk of having a dead format and having to keep a player around for that dead format.

Also, how do you get Heroes for free?

It's just a Best Buy deal - the boxset is $99 - so you are really paying just $80 for the player - plus the free movies. I don't care if there's no clear cut winner - give me a free HD player - I'll take it.


It's not that I mind having to pay for the player, but lets say I adopt HD-DVD and it dies off. For the next few years I can be perfectly happy keeping my 360+HD-DVD addon with no worries. The problem comes in when I buy the next gen XBox that doesn't have the HD-DVD support (and lets assume the player doesn't connect to the next format since HD-DVD has long since been dead) and I still want to watch my movies.

I have something over 300 DVD's and that's even after my girlfriend sell a couple hundred of them so I do like to keep my movies around. When I do decide to go HD I will feel the same way. I'm not worried about my DVD collection because HD players play those, but I won't want to have to rebuy all my HD-DVD movies again. What's worse, I'll have to go down a step in quality because it's likely that all the HD-DVD movies I have aren't going to be on BluRay.

So yeah, I can handle the price. It's expensive but it's something I could handle if I needed to. What I don't want is the idea of either having to keep a dead format player and dead format movies or rebuying my collection and quite possibly have to go down a step in quality rather than up. I hate the format war because I really do want to buy next gen movies, I just have a problem with the idea of buying a format that could very possibly die off in a few years (HD-DVD or BluRay because there is in no way a clear winner or even one that's really ahead).


I totally agree. I am old enough to remember beta/VHS fight. Shoot ... I remember when video stores had beta and VHS sections.

I definitely agree with you on this ... however, seeming the HD-DVD drive still supports my old DVDs, sweet. It's really an inexpensive gamble that will cost me $80 per time and fuel.

I don't plan to rebuy the my collection - unless I know for sure the format will win. But at this price, right now, I think I have little more than $80 to lose. Plus, I will eventually buy a PS3 - from a pawn shop more than likely, so I have both things covered.