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There May Be A Dozen New HD DVD Players This Summer
There May Be A Dozen New HD DVD Players This Summer
BluRay will soon die?
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Naw. It will survive as format for PS3 games, with all that superior capacity, bandwith & BD-Java interactivity.
Oh, wait a minute! Despite "millions & millions" of PS3's being sold, their isn't a single game title produced yet on a BD disk.
And that BD-Java interactivity won't standard requirement for another 7 months, and may not be supported by the current ""millions & millions" of PS3's" already sold. :yikes
It will survive. Ask Blockbuster what format they will carry. Blue Ray. That's a major think. Go to any retailer and see what are they pushing. Blue Ray. No one even knows about HD DVD. Everyone knows the word Blue Ray. Toshibe should have given HD DVD a different name. Try to say the HD DVD word to yourself and see which one sounds better. Everytime I have to explain to someone about HD DVD is very hard, compare with Blue Ray. Blue Ray sounds better to the ear. When you say Blue Ray everyone thinks, Yeah that's that great picture.
By the way I own both HD DVD and Blue Ray players and I like Blue Ray better.
PS3
TOSHIBA HD AD2
52" SHARP AQUAS LCD
By the way I own both HD DVD and Blue Ray players and I like Blue Ray better.
PS3
TOSHIBA HD AD2
52" SHARP AQUAS LCD
- I'm not sure what a "major think" is, and it's been years since I darkened the doorway of a BB store. But I know from other posts that BB Online carries both HD DVD & Blu-ray. And I know from experience that Netflix has just about every HD DVD release.
- Every time I say "Blu-ray" fast it sounds more like "blurry".
And I like how "HDTV" sounds a lot better than "Blu-ray TV". C'mon - everyone knows what an HDTV is, and everyone knows what a DVD is, so how can they not get what HD DVD is? Blu-ray to me always sounds like a weapon they used in "The Phantom Menace". I haven't seen a Blu-ray movie since I laughed at the quality of the "5th Element" and "House of Flying Artifacts (Daggers)" demos at BB & CC when BD first came out. I understand from reading reviews they have improved the quality greatly, no doubt thanks to having some competition. Aside from not being a gamer & not willing to spend $600 for a game machine to play movies on my home theater system, the lack of DVD upconversion and no analog audio outputs eliminates the PS3 for me. I'm able to enjoy high def video & audio on my 3 yr. old Sony 1080i HDTV with a HDMI>DVI cable and the analog outputs on my 6 yr. old Sony A/V receiver with my XA1 HD DVD player.
But, assuming you're able to enjoy comparable quality audio & video from your PS3 & A2 HD DVD player, what considerations make you feel you like Blu-ray better?
On Universal HD DVD's, I like the slider bar timeline that comes up when you press pause, so you know excatly where you are in the movie when you take a bathroom or kitchen break. And if that break goes on too long, I like even better the screensaver that automatically comes on after 60 seconds - no screen burn-in.
And the HDi interactivity is pretty neat stuff. In "Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift, you could press the "A" button during a chase scene and a Google Earth like map would zoom in to show you exactly where the car was. Not earth shattering, but neat stuff I would expect from the next generation movie disk.As I said, it's been awhile since I've seen a BD movie - what features do you like?
First of all the Toshiba player it loads up slow.
Second of all who wants analog audio outputs.
HDMI or nothing if you go HD.
I just watched Miami Vice on my Toshiba HD A2 and is O.K. but the Blue Ray looks better.
Like I said before, I have them both and to me I like Blue Ray.
Everyone has their own opinion.
Second of all who wants analog audio outputs.
HDMI or nothing if you go HD.
I just watched Miami Vice on my Toshiba HD A2 and is O.K. but the Blue Ray looks better.
Like I said before, I have them both and to me I like Blue Ray.
Everyone has their own opinion.
Correct, I agree, people should use the correct terms to avoid confusion. Heck why is it so hard to do so any way? The correct term is even shorter. LOL!
Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray
BD
BD-ROM
BD-R
BD-RE
BD/DVD (planned hybrid format)
Blu-ray Disc
Blu-ray
BD
BD-ROM
BD-R
BD-RE
BD/DVD (planned hybrid format)
Naw. It will survive as format for PS3 games, with all that superior capacity, bandwith & BD-Java interactivity.
Oh, wait a minute! Despite "millions & millions" of PS3's being sold, their isn't a single game title produced yet on a BD disk.
And that BD-Java interactivity won't standard requirement for another 7 months, and may not be supported by the current ""millions & millions" of PS3's" already sold. :yikes
Every PS3 game is on BD-ROM.
BD-Java works quite fine on the "millions & millions" of PS3's" already sold. Chicken Little has a Space Invaders type game you can play and Dragon's Lair is coming April 9th.
I always use BR. I don't call them "DVD discs", just DVDs. And I don't call BR "Blu-Ray discs", just Blu-Ray (ie: BR).
Sound like a moron going to Blockbuster asking for some DVD Disks. I can see the response now. "Sorry sir, but all we have are DVD tapes." haha
Sound like a moron going to Blockbuster asking for some DVD Disks.
I can see the response now. "Sorry sir, but all we have are DVD tapes." haha
So, I really don't care which one wins, I am not shelling out a nickle on any equipment until the format war is done.
When DVD hit the market, I bought a Panasonic A10 and had to buy movies online as you couldn't find them elsewhere. The DVD player was $650.00... But I would not do that again knowing that a year from now the format was going to fail.
When DVD hit the market, I bought a Panasonic A10 and had to buy movies online as you couldn't find them elsewhere. The DVD player was $650.00... But I would not do that again knowing that a year from now the format was going to fail.
So, I really don't care which one wins, I am not shelling out a nickle on any equipment until the format war is done.
This is the reason one must die -- and it more and more looking like HD-DVD will be a Asian product only and disappear from the US. Toshiba won't be making the money they could have but they will recoup their investment costs.
This is the reason one must die -- and it more and more looking like HD-DVD will be a Asian product only and disappear from the US. Toshiba won't be making the money they could have but they will recoup their investment costs.
You got that right Charper. Having All of these terms are absurd and just confuses everyone
It will take years, especially when you look at the HD market and how small it is. As it grows the number of potential HDTV's out their will double and triple. And that means we could have a new leader every darn year for the next 5 years but an onslaught of cheap players could change things.
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No. Retailers won't let it drag on. I believe I've read where almost half the U.S. households have HDTVs, and about half of them don't have an HD signal. These people are prime candidates for an HD player. So the market is here, today. People are holding off due to cost, uncertainty over who will survive, and lack of knowledge.
The format war might be over with in the U.S. this year, maybe next. Probably won't drag into 2009, IMHO. Cheap players in both formats might open things up, but it could be over before the sub-$200 players hit the market.
The format war might be over with in the U.S. this year, maybe next. Probably won't drag into 2009, IMHO. Cheap players in both formats might open things up, but it could be over before the sub-$200 players hit the market.
So I am in my local Walmart the same retailer everyone was saying was going to save HD-DVD this summer. Okay, so only the HD-DVD fanboys were saying this. So I go to purchase Casino on BD. They have it for $24.96. I notice that Happy Feet is selling for $5 less on BD then HD-DVD. Then I notice that there are 24 BD titles for sale and only 12 HD-DVD titles. And of course I do a Happy Feet count and there are only 2 BD discs while there are 7 HD-DVD discs. Is this looking like a trend or what?
