| madskillz said: I support HD DVD over Blu Ray for a few reasons. First, I enjoy having the extra Web content in movies. Like in Transformers - during certain scenes, you can access Web content that gives more in-depth look at items, more than the director's commentary can provide. Second, I have been importing VCDs for years - and not having to worry about region coding thrilled me. I haven't bought any foreign HD DVDs yet, but planned on it when the price came down enough. And besides, I can get quite a few BR titles on HD DVD overseas. Third, I wasn't impressed by the pricing of the HD players. When I was able to get 9 free HD DVDs and a $99 player, I had no choice but to hop in. Lastly, I am not thrilled with the prospect of buying into a format that is still trying to find its way. That would be Blu Ray. They are still trying to implement features into their players that are standard in HD DVD players. And I could care less about the storage capacity. It can all be changed with a firmware update. Do I plan to sell my 360 add-on or HD DVD player anytime soon? Nah. I enjoy it thoroughly. I also have no plans to go Blu unless I buy a 60gb PS3 with full BC. That is the only way I will go Blu soon. Maybe if there's a $99 BR player, but that is quite a ways off. |
1. Blu-ray java special features should equal HDi at least.
2. Region coding is not yet an issue and Japan is the same region as the US.
3. Pricing is $50-$100 off now and dropping. The bonus is that the best blu-ray player under probably $1000 is a great piece of electronics called the PS3, which does a lot of other things such as serve as a media server that streams files from your PC (divx/xvid now supported).
4. HD-DVD storage capacity has shown no real signs that it was to increase any time soon, but you say a firmware update would be good enough? That's odd, because the PS3 and all new blu-ray players can implement firmware updates and that's how they are "finding its way."
You are going to be severely limited by what movies you can watch on that hd-dvd player you have, so I find it very odd you are so against buying a blu-ray player. The 80GB PS3 plays a higher percentage of PS2 games than the 360 plays xbox 1 games, so I wouldn't worry about that, either.
