HD DVD is dead; Blu Ray will lose the war

[ssj12]

kitler53 said:

ssj12 said:

sieanr said:

ssj12 said:
People prefer to have their media stored. Movies on Blu-ray will become sucessful as HDTV's penetrate the market farther.

A hard drive is a form of storage. Plenty of people seem to be okay with it when used on their tivo.  

 I was meaning a form of media that they can remove, and store for safe keeping. hard-drives are way to faulty anyways. They break way to easy. Once Solid State Drives become more norm it will be better for downloadable media. Still people will still want removable media so people can walk in and look at your movie/game/music collections. Its kind of a pride thing. Thats why I'm slowly trying to switchmy VHS and DVDs to blu-ray movies as they are released on the format. It looks better.

 i'm going to have to disagree with you there.  i own almost 400 dvds now so i'm an obvious consumer whore.  my problem is that they take up soo damn much space.  i absolutely love MP3s for the simple fact that i could put every thing on my computer and put all the originals into storage where i never have to see them again, and that's exactly what i'd like to do with my dvds.  having 3 bookshelves full of dvds is honestly more of an annoyance than anything.  once they come up with a way to have digital downloads, i'm jumping all over it.

 well there is a point where any collection gets stupid. Seriously do you watch half those movies? couldnt you go trade like 100 of them in to Blockbuster or GameStop?

Also, If you have ever watched MTV cribs you would have notice that celebrates have tons of movies like you. They jsut have the space for all the movies. Normal people like us dont have a room thats 400 sq ft. But in that same area there are also the videophiles, who have similar houses as us, that would say your 400 movies is a pitiful amount and you should buy another 800 movies. They find ways to store their massive collections.

Digital media will be a nice way for you to keep the movies you rarely watch or dont watch yet keep the movies you watch a ton of in secure media ie hard copies.

The one thing I like is with the switch to Blu-ray is that the packaging is thinner then DVD so you can fit more on a shelf.