HD DVD takes yet another shot

[Justyntym]

USA Today on Blu-Ray

Article in USA today...basically netflicks and bestbuy have sided with blu-ray.

I like the quote..."Toshiba's strategy to win customers with low price players is a hail mary pass...it's a format that is not going to be supported much longer."

Buh-Bye HD...I'll be glad when the format scirmish is settled, it's a little irritating when buying a movie and finding it in only one or the other format.

 

[Mr Bogus]

Toshibas strategy to get rid of the hardware before it is completely worthless?

 

[99'busa]

 

[thrasherfox]

Reminiscent of the Beta / VHS wars

 

[WWJD]

wait. I thought the pron industry was gonna SAVE HDDVD? What happened to that? I guess they couldn't FLESH that out. Guess they were shown the rear exit. I guess it ended up being the wrong TOOL for the job. I guess they pumped all their money into other ventures. I guess size did matter. I guess they were just shooting blanks. I guess... ah who am I kidding I've run out of euphemisms

 

[Justyntym]

 

[NightCrawler]

Heard about it today. Microsoft is trying to do their part by lowering the price of the HD-DVD player add-on to the X-Box360. It dropped from something like $170 to $130. I'm not sure if those are the correct figures but I'm pretty sure I'm close.

Disney
Blockbuster Video
Target
Netflix ...

I don't think Geezus himself could save HD-DVD at this point.

 

[Revlis]

wait. I thought the pron industry was gonna SAVE HDDVD? What happened to that? I guess they couldn't FLESH that out. Guess they were shown the rear exit. I guess it ended up being the wrong TOOL for the job. I guess they pumped all their money into other ventures. I guess size did matter. I guess they were just shooting blanks. I guess... ah who am I kidding I've run out of euphemisms

Dood... You rock...

 

[Revlis]

USA Today on Blu-Ray

Article in USA today...basically netflicks and bestbuy have sided with blu-ray.

I like the quote..."Toshiba's strategy to win customers with low price players is a hail mary pass...it's a format that is not going to be supported much longer."

Buh-Bye HD...I'll be glad when the format scirmish is settled, it's a little irritating when buying a movie and finding it in only one or the other format.

Totally, Will be really good to be able to purchase with some semblance of confidence. I don't like Sony because of a lot of their proprietary BS, but it did seem as though Blue-ray was a slightly more robust medium. Hopefully this will put an end to it... I think Disney was probably the death knell.

 

[IllusionalTA]

I bought a blu ray player.. i love it.. Kudo's to Sony, but i do love my toshiba tv's.. they work great!!!... I'll be happy when i can get every movie in the blu ray format rather than just select few... Btw blu ray up convert's everything to a really nice quality even better than my "upconvert" DVD player.. So.. it's worth The coin IMO>...

 

[Mr Bogus]

wait.  I thought the pron industry was gonna SAVE HDDVD?  What happened to that?  I guess they couldn't FLESH that out.  Guess they were shown the rear exit.  I guess it ended up being the wrong TOOL for the job.  I guess they pumped all their money into other ventures.   I guess size did matter.   I guess they were just shooting blanks.  I guess... ah who am I kidding I've run out of euphemisms

  Dood...  You rock...  

now you know that there are still some guys that have those big old "laser" disks right?

I am just happy that this is coming to a mericiful end finally (so I can get my new toy)

Some kid at bestbuy tried to sell the Mrs a HD DVD last year when we got the Plasma but I said no... prices were still outrageous until blue ray won the war... kid about had a heart attack... I am ready for the playa

 

[WWJD]

Hey, I still have a bunch of those big ol laser disks. they were freaking awesome until DVDs finally hit. I guess I should sell those on ebay to the weirdo collector set