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Blu-ray's Dirty Little Secret

Apparently, a number of (US) movie studios that claim to be devout, faithful supporters of the BD format are guilty of a little electronic adultery. HD DVD is the mistress at a secret challis, in other markets. Life is interesting indeed...

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Lightning Mr Bubbles6091d ago

I'm sure if you look hard enough, You'll find Pirates of the Carribean and Spider-man on HD DVD somewhere. Good look with that.

Lightning Mr Bubbles6091d ago

I'm sure the underground is flooded with secret Blu ray exclusives that are also on HD DVD. Just too bad no one has found them yet.

Hey you guys want to start looking?

frizshizzle6090d ago

If you really want to pay more to import them.

toughNAME6091d ago (Edited 6091d ago )

Blu-ray's had a bad weekend..

nasim6091d ago

However HD DVD just keeeps on dying

Blu-ray is beating it 3:1 in NA and 9:1 in EU and JAPAN

BTW transformer had no effect on HD DVD sales. Despite people preordering it the sales of HD DVD is the same as it was before

BOTS :- HD DVD would be dead by the end of this year

www.eproductwars.com/dvd

:)

blackmagic6090d ago (Edited 6090d ago )

Nasim, atleast you are supplying links now but did you even look at the link you supplied? Tell you what, go to all those sales rankings and click 'show all' instead of 'last 24 hours' and you will see that Blu-Ray only leads by about 20-25%.

And based on Sony's own sales data from their recent keynote, an interesting trend is happening, See attached

toughNAME6091d ago (Edited 6091d ago )

but it seems legite, plus theres plenty of links

ill approve

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lol ive already wasted so many bubbles

Bloodmask6091d ago

It is kind of shocking that supposed "exclusive" Bluray supporters do in fact release movies on HDDVD. I guess none of these contracts are set in stone.

I don't understand why any movie studio would support Bluray when upgrading DVD-9 lines will cost them over a million dollars. And the upgrade to HDDVD will only be 150,000.

It really doesn't seem like a sound business strategy.

Lightning Mr Bubbles6091d ago

Start finding all those Blu ray exclusives on HD DVD, that no one has ever found yet. Expose the truth!!

toughNAME6091d ago

did you...read the article?

Lightning Mr Bubbles6091d ago

Sony pictures, Silent Hill is on HD DVD? Sony decided to make it on HD DVD also, just for the hell of it.

Momof46090d ago (Edited 6090d ago )

Yep, I ordered the HD DVD versions of Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse (along with Renaissance) from Amazon.de a couple weeks ago. Underworld (Amazon.de) and Underworld: Evolution (DVDGO.com) will probably get ordered in the next two weeks.

Already have both Terminator 2: Judgement Day and The Prestige on HD DVD, not to mention other HD DVD imports that may not be Blu exclusive, but aren't available here in the US right now.

It's too easy to import discs and purchase imported discs to not take advantage of HD DVD's region-free aspect.

And, no, it didn't require much time or effort to find these "Blu exclusives" on HD DVD at all.

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RTX 50 series cooling tested up to 600W, but users want Nvidia to fix the adapter first

Nvidia is allegedly testing GPU coolers to handle up to 600W for the 50 series, reigniting discussion of melting 16-pin connectors.

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Former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider pours scorn on EA's AI dreams.

"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".

LordoftheCritics2d ago

Publishers see gaming as another stock market.

isarai2d ago

I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.

Psychonaut851d 18h ago

Friends don’t let friends buy EA or Ubisoft.

Chocoburger1d 17h ago

I said this yesterday. AI isn't what we want when it comes to crafting artistry. Alas, these soulless corporate morons don't care about their work, only about cutting corners as much as possible.

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Phil Spencer and the Battle for Xbox’s Soul

Has the rapid growth of Xbox made the ship too heavy? Following the closures of Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, and Roundhouse, we explore what the future of Xbox could look like.

LG_Fox_Brazil2d ago

This ship was never meant to sail, this ship was made from the get go to sink as fast as possible. It almost feels that they want to lower the standards of quality in the industry so that they can fit in

rlow11d 21h ago

I disagree, Xbox from the get go innovated and changed the industry. They did a lot of firsts and standardized a lot of others. It wasn’t till the beginning of the Xbox1 era that things started to go south.

Stevonidas1d 17h ago

Yep, although I’d argue it started going to shit when they tried to hock Kinect on their audience instead of continuing to invest in their studios and IPs. 2001-2010 Xbox was peak gaming, though.

rlow11d 15h ago

@Stevonidas
I agree they never should have focused on it after the 360 era. But you do have to remember they were faked out by the huge volumes of Kinects sold. To quote info on Wikipedia, “Project Natal, It was first released on November 4, 2010, and would go on to sell eight million units in its first 60 days of availability.” So if your Xbox and see these huge sales on a peripheral where are you going to put some money? Criticism in hindsight is worthless…..if only we could all see our future. In other wards they had no way of knowing. Plus they had engagement numbers and a lot of signs pointed to people wanting it.

Their biggest mistake wasn’t the Kinect, but unlike Sony after the PS3 debacle. They didn’t double on down on exclusive good games. The other huge mistake was letting Call of Duty go to Sony.

Hedstrom2d ago

Phil wants Xbox to be as soulless as him!

Tacoboto1d 23h ago (Edited 1d 23h ago )

Xbox has no soul and Phil has no confidence, and it's impossible to say either do when they killed Tango and Arkane Austin.

Everything they've said since has only made them look worse to a point that they're actually less competent than Embracer.

Markdn1d 23h ago (Edited 1d 23h ago )

Whe you release something like the series S and expect it not to hurt your business model, and developers have to have parity with games. Then you know Microsoft don't care. Series s is the final nail that broke developers,

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