5 Reasons Why HD DVD Owners Should Go Blu

Wizeguy21 - 352 days 20 hours ago

Because it's your only choice for a physical HD copy of a movie! :-(.. But don't worry, this time Its only 1 choice, AND the format will be out longer than a year! haha!

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Elven6 - 352 days 20 hours ago

HD DVD sales have still been pretty strong according to some recent reports because its dirt cheap now and liquidators were buying up stock left and right.

Their are people out their who supported HD DVD but are waiting for either cheaper prices or a better 2.0 player that's not the PS3.

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Kigmal - 352 days 19 hours ago

This isn't even beating a dead horse, it's taking a dead horse, hanging it by the ceiling and playing pinata with a barbed wired bat.

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jlemdon - 352 days 15 hours ago

I've always been in the Blu, I have a 360 & PS3 so I would always watch the movies that were available for Hd-dvd at the time then watch Blu-ray movies.:)

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Danja - 352 days 19 hours ago

because they really have no other choice if they want an HD Format..XD

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Elven6 - 352 days 19 hours ago

@ Danja: Their are alternatives, HD VMD, CBHD, etc are all plausible alternatives if someone REALLY wants to avoid Blu Ray.

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Ju - 352 days 19 hours ago

No they are not. None of these players is available in any major retail store.

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ChampIDC - 352 days 18 hours ago

Ju, that's why he said REALLY. If somebody wants to avoid Blu-ray that badly, they could with a little extra effort than going to your local retailer.

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Boink - 352 days 17 hours ago

the best alternative is free HD from the net.

benn enjoying for months now, no expensive player and no expensive discs to buy.

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MazzingerZ - 352 days 15 hours ago

1 reason...HD DVD is dead, gone, mortuus...you don't find HD DVD here in Scandinavia, those sections at any retailer/webstore have been renamed from "HD format" to 'Blu-Ray'

The day Blu-Ray was declared winner it reached news papers, TV, etc...it reached the masses hence the average Joe...before that only 5% of the people knew there was a "HD war" going on...today many of them don't even know there was a format called HD DVD nor care...Blu-Ray = HD for them as you find it anywhere unlike LaserDisc after it came out.

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Elven6 - 352 days 20 hours ago

One just came out a few weeks ago, it was Scottish horror film I believe. P2 IIRC.

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Elven6 - 352 days 19 hours ago

I have Blu Ray, actually I have both formats! :D

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Elven6 - 352 days 19 hours ago

Your point? HD content is HD content regardless of whether the format is still available predominantly in stores.

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Fishy Fingers - 352 days 19 hours ago

Elvan, yes but why continuely invest your money in an all but obsolete product. What happens when your player dies, what you gonna do with your HD collection then, bin them or sell them for pennies? Better to cut your loses now and adopt BR.

Also, still available in stores? No store I've been in. You cant get any new releases.

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Milky Joe - 352 days 19 hours ago

My point is that if you want to continue to expand your HD library with future releases, you're going to need to move to Blu-Ray.

...It was a joke...

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AdolfBinBush - 352 days 19 hours ago

dead horse has many uses.. the least they can do with it is poke it.

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Milky Joe - 352 days 19 hours ago

Yeah, but at least with a dead horse you get that satisfying squelch. Here you'll just get a plasticy tap, which is no fun at all.

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tordavis - 352 days 16 hours ago

I buy both. I opted for The Ultimate Matrix on HD-DVD because it was half the price of Blu-Ray but the same quality. There are tons of HD-DVD players available and if you are really worried about not finding one if yours breaks, get the Samsung HD-DVD/Blu-Ray combo player. HD-DVD rocks and I can buy movies on the real cheap at inetvideo.com I support both formats.

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Elven6 - 352 days 19 hours ago

I got mine for Iron Man, Tropic Thunder, and Band of Brothers, Dark Knight was also a factor but not as major as my other choices.

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Elven6 - 352 days 19 hours ago

Look at the Laserdisc market, years after it collapsed it was still a highly collected item, and in many cases it still is today but on a much smaller scale compared to a few years ago.

@ Below: Like I said I own both formats and then some so their is no reason for me to go out and "defend" a format by any means.

Cliffbo: Well said, bubbles for you! And again I have a few formats including Blu Ray and HD DVD. I use my HD DVD player from time to time because their are things on it that probably won't be on Blu Ray for a while or with the slightest possibility, never!

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Sarcasm - 352 days 18 hours ago

Elven6, stop trying to act all rational about HD-DVD. It's a dead format with no support.

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cliffbo - 352 days 18 hours ago

wait. could we perhaps stop this automatic bashing just because someone has a different opinion to us? Elven isn't being snotty here, so why should we. of course i still disagree with you Elven, but if you feel you'll get mileage out of your HD-DVD then fair enough

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tordavis - 352 days 16 hours ago

@elven6 - Bubbles for the fellow HD-DVD owner.

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fossilfern - 352 days 17 hours ago

no HD DVD and Bluray are the same they use the same Codecs and all but blu ray does have a higher bitrate and hold more information than a HDDVD disk. Personally id know what one id go for

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tordavis - 352 days 16 hours ago

WRONG! HD-DVD and Blu-Ray use the same compression codecs, AVC and VC1.

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Mr Marbles - 352 days 16 hours ago

that they use many of the same codecs, but studios do a few things different with many of the bluray releases, you would have to google the details.

If you look at just bluray releases, you will see a difference in picture quality depending on the movie, they do not all look as good as Dark knight, even though they are all bluray and use the same codecs.

Well HD-DVD is the same, its just that a higher percentage of HDDVD releases have the top tier picture quality. Where as quite a few bluray releases have far less than perfect picture quality.

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Fanboy Slaughter - 352 days 11 hours ago

If they wanna pay for things they'll never own, enjoy a pseudo-HD picture with the sound quality of a 96 bitrate MP3, and, depending on their connection, have intermittent hiccups during their movie, creating time for things like, oh, I don't know...getting pissed that their movie has been interrupted?

I know everyone has experienced this a LOT....watching a movie, only to have either: a) the power to go out, or b) get into a phone conversation, resulting in interruption of the movie. Either way, when it's time to watch the rest of the movie, no one is really in the mood to watch it anymore.

And while I expect DD to stick around for a bit, maybe even get better as net connections skyrocket (along with the monthly fee), I don't expect them to become a dominant format. There a certain consumer satisfaction with having a tangible object in their hands when they part ways with their hard-earned money.

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Jason 360 - 352 days 7 hours ago

http://dictionary.reference... they call those typos, you do know what a typo is don't you?

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