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libellule on 11 August 2007

and what about the DVD numbers ?

whatever, during Xmas, at least, +1M BR player against +100k HD-DVD player.
Even if all the PS3 owner dont use PS3 as a BR player the user base is still 10 fold bigger than HD-DVD.


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finalsquall on 11 August 2007

I brought my copy today at Big W (Aust) and it cost me $36au... That was sweet. Basically the price of a high end dvd. Actually all BD's were under $40 au :D great Movie. This is Madness!



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llewdebkram on 11 August 2007

I remember similar excitement for albums when they sold a lot on minidisk, who wants a minidisk now!



Hus on 11 August 2007
shams said:
HD-DVD selling 35% of the units first week is actually a really excellent result. Considering that the "BluRay" install base must be significantly higher than the HD-DVD install base.

Wonder if you'll discover that the HD-DVD camp ends up with a better "attach ratio" in the long term. Guess its always going to end like this for a dedicated player.

PS - 300 (the movie) rocks. I have some minor quibbles with it, but its a solid 9/10 - and one of the best movies of its genre ever made. Sin City also rocks (and its probably better ;)

 Its not, hddvd always has a strong first week as the faithfull rush to buy what ever new movie is out, then the drop happens as Br much bigger user base keep buying and buing the movie while hddvds userbase has been exhausted.



sieanr on 11 August 2007
Kwaad said:
Warlord_ said:
I heard 300 was a bad HD movie, it was far to dark and really grainy for the extra costs, while the normal DVD copy performed just aswell in a upconverting DVD player. This was posted on the Sony forums.

 

Uhh, Yeah.

I also heard ferrari's suck.

 

I have both BluRay and DVD collectors edition. 300 is THE movie I care about this year. I'm just gonna say this.

DVD = GARBAGE

BluRay = OMFGWOW

I mean this seiously. That grain-y ness, is actually part of the movie. Kinda like the bronzing, also like the darkness.

I saw it at the movie theater 2 times. Both times, I felt it looked 'slightly' out of focus, and dark.

Watched it on BluRay. It looked perfectly crisp and clear, and not quite as dark.

The DVD version, was (at least seemed with a good up-converting DVD player. (Samsung, Sony, and my PS3)) Looked highly out of focus. There was next to no detail, on the closeups, I couldnt see a QUARTER of what I could on BluRay.

You picked the wrong movie to bash on HD. Spiderman3 HD over SD, wont be near as impressive as 300 HD over SD.

Dont say ****, unless you've seen from experience.

EDIT: I also want to point that I only paid 3$ more for my BluRay over my DVD version. So cost wasnt a big deal.


I must have watched a different movie last night...

All the detail is washed out on the HD version as well, so I don't see where you get off claiming the DVD lacks detail. The problem is the movie is so stylized and so heavily altered that, at the end of the day, its fairly simple from a visual standpoint. I don't mean to say this is a bad thing, just that the film tries to emulate the graphic novel, and to that end most fine detail is washed away.

Edges aren't quite as sharp on the DVD version, and the grain is less pronounced, but thats about it. The HD version offers little more from a visual standpoint than the DVD version, and is lacking in the features. If you have BD or HD player, than by all means go ahead. However, this is definitly not something worth "going HD" for.

And yeah, you're crazy with this "out of focus" stuff... 



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akuma587 on 11 August 2007

Unfortunately for HD-DVD, Blu-Ray is catching up very quickly in the standalone market, largely due to the bigger selection of Blu-Ray players.

http://www.videobusiness.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6467868

Very few hardware manufacturers want to build HD-DVD players because Toshiba undercuts the entire market with their loss-leading strategy. HD-DVD may lose by default if no hardware manufacturer will build players for it.



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Warlord_ on 11 August 2007

@kwaad, maybe you should of read what i posted, i said it was posted on the Sony forums. Next time don't go all stupid either, it is still not a great movie to show off the greatness that is HD movies. The movie was far to dark to show off anything, while movies with bright colours are better at showing what BD can do, like the BBC nature crap they have.



windbane on 12 August 2007
shams said:
HD-DVD selling 35% of the units first week is actually a really excellent result. Considering that the "BluRay" install base must be significantly higher than the HD-DVD install base.

Wonder if you'll discover that the HD-DVD camp ends up with a better "attach ratio" in the long term. Guess its always going to end like this for a dedicated player.

PS - 300 (the movie) rocks. I have some minor quibbles with it, but its a solid 9/10 - and one of the best movies of its genre ever made. Sin City also rocks (and its probably better ;)

That's a terrible result. That's probably the worst ratio for HD-DVD yet. The install base is favoring blu-ray more every day, so I'm not sure how this is positive for HD-DVD.

I agree, though, that 300 is awesome. 



hunter_alien on 12 August 2007

One thing can save HD-DVD : PORN lol



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Diomedes1976 on 12 August 2007

Wow ,the numbers are definitely improving ....this is starting to be a serious market share .DVD may lead for some time still ,but with this kind of numbers we cant say the HD market is totally "despreciable " .