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etuoyo on 18 January 2008
Dno said:
etuoyo said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
etuoyo said:
cool48 said:
Yeah it's the end who would now buy an HD-DVD player?

Eh I would (if I didnt have two already) as Wal-Mart aint the only store in the world and irrespective of the fact blu-ray has won, HD-DVD players make for cheap but amazingly good quality upscaling DVDs, are much better featured than current blu-ray players (even though much cheaper), and there are of tons of movies already out on HD DVD which wont suddenly stop working cause blu-ray has virtually killed blu ray off.


This post is funny; the bolded section is my favorite part.


Oops.  Meant Blu-Ray has killed HD DVD off (obviously).  Other than that dont see whats so funny.


whats so funny is that you would still uy a HD-DVD player thats pretty stupid....


Enlighten me how that is pretty stupid?  Are people not still buying upscaling DVD players for up to a £1000.  Why on earth would I not consider buying a high quality upscaling DVD player for only £260 which as a bonus plays HD DVDs and there are already tons of HD DVD movies out already and until Universal and Paramount say they will no longer be supporting HD DVD there are still more that would be coming out in the future.  So I fail to see what is stupid about buying a HD DVD player (unless you are a die hard Sony lover).  That is even before we get to the point that you don't even know how much I earn so can't possibly form an opinion as to whether spending £260 on a gadget means nothing to me.



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madskillz on 18 January 2008
EHSTEVE said:
madskillz said:
I doubt it. First, it would have been plastered all over the news, like when Blockbuster and Target sided with Blu. Plus, there's no stories - 10 days later - stating this. Lastly, Wal-Mart was the first place to kick off the $99 HD DVD player deals. They are purple - they are in it for the benjamins.

 

how do you get rid of stock that you won't be selling anymore? ridiculously low prices? hmm...

Well, they were doing it on Black Friday to counter Best Buy's ad. At the Wally Worlds I frequent, there are more Blu Ray discs than HD DVDs, but I have yet to see more than one standalone BR player besides the PS3. Wally World is about making loot. For them to drop it makes absolutely no sense.

For Target to do that does, seeming they cater to a certain clientele.

To the person who said DVDs would be dead in a few years - please, get real. The vast majority of folks will NOT pay over $100 for an HD player and won't pay $30 for a movie. As long as there are $5 bins of DVDs, you can forget HD media/players going mainstream. The price is too high for the average consumer, but for early adopters, they don't care.



ameratsu on 18 January 2008

^^ of all the people i know with ps3's who buy blu ray movies, none of them have paid $30 for a movie yet. while movies may be priced at $30, they frequently have 2 for 1 deals.

I don't see DVD going anywhere for the time being and i don't see digital distribution (for HD movies) taking off in most of the world for quite a while as well. With that said, blu-ray will do reasonably well for itself now that hd-dvd is becoming more irrelevant each day.



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Username2324 on 18 January 2008
mike_intellivision said:
I just wonder, to the average person, how much better Blu-Ray is than an upscaled DVD.

Heck, to be honest, I can't usually see the difference in poor quality video tapes off of TV and a DVD movie.

That points out two things. Many people right now still have SDTVs (or less). And people whose eyesight isn't perfect aren't going to notice the imperfections of existing technologies as much as the cost of new technologies.

By 2020, Blu-Ray will be the standard that DVD is now. But probably not much before 2016.

Mike from Morgantown

 No one buys a HD movie player that only has a SDTV, where's the logic in that? Those who have HDTVs easily notice the difference between a upscaled DVD and a Blu-ray. Frankly I'm kind of tired of hearing a upscaled DVD is almost as good, its not even close the picture is far clearer and sharper, as well as the sound on Blu-ray