so only HoeD and i want to watch High Def *****

 

i like hidef *****

 

 

Haven't you guys been reading the news lately?[>:] A. **** is already scheduled for release on Blu-ray. (I don't think any **** is available for HD-DVD. B. Sales of Blu-ray have outsold HD-DVD between 2-1, and 3-1 every week in 2007, except during one week when HD-DVD actually released something good. C. Since Warner Bros. just announced it was going Blu-ray exclusive about two weeks ago, this leaves HD-DVD with only a little over 20% of the Hollywood market share. Universal and Paramount, (HD-DVD's only major studio backers. btw... Blu-ray has six Major studio backings), have apparently not renewed their exclusivity contract with Toshiba/HD-DVD which means those last two remaining HD-DVD studios are likely to switch over to Blu-ray exclusively sometime this year, Leaving HD-DVD as an obsolete disc player.

Don't fall for the fire-sale Toshiba is having on all their HD-DVD players! They are not doing this for the consumer's sake. Toshiba just wants to have some negotiating power with the Blu-ray group when they formally end the format war by showing they had "strong" sales of their HD players.

I think Hitler can explain it best. Watch this video. It's hilarious! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=friS4OOcdgQ

 

it is a strong move on toshiba to lower their price that way, though

 

I have HD-DVD, and while it's disc capacity is less - the video quality is the same between them. One big thing about BR that is going to bite a lot of people in the **** is there have been a couple of revisions already, and there is another big one to come - which will result in old players (read: 1 year old, including the PS3s) not being able to play the newer discs. Also the Blue Ray price point is WAY over what HDDVD is... I bought my player 3 months ago for under $100... yet trying to find a decent BR player still costs 300. The whole Warner deal announced last week will tilt the scales a little bit in BRs favor, until another studio signs on to HD exclusively. Ultimately - the studios aren't going to care about which one might be "better" technology wise - they are only going to care which one sells more and earns them more profit.

And in reality - BR is the Beta - as being "better" capacity wise, and pure, discrete, un-compressed audio in 7.1. Beta always was the better format (why do you think TV stations stuck with it (BetaCAM SP, BetaCAM Digital)) for nearly 2 decades after the consumer market switched to VHS?) with higher resolution, audio, etc. HD will do 7.1 discrete as well, but will not be lossless - not that anyone can hear the difference anyhow with the advancements in compression the last several years.

Even if the market switches to BR... I won't feel bad about it at all. I have nearly 20 HD titles that I paid significantly less for than their BR counterparts (if offered on BR - most were not), and I don't have thousands tied up in a player either... so once BR decks come down in price and the format revision stabilizes, I will buy one of those if that is where the market is, and not feel like I am out any real amounts of money. After all - I also still have my LaserDisc player and about 250 movies on that format too

In the end - I am confident that HD-DVD will win out however.

 

It's important to know why they are dropping their prices so much though.

Think of Blu-ray/HD-DVD this way; if you could could choose between having an 80% chance of living, or a 20% chance of living, which would you choose?

 

I think this as well, also from the consumer point, that you can just flip the disc over and play it anywhere, like a car, or other such regular dvd players.

 

Srobak, it's certain special extra features of the new profile discs that the older blu-ray players won't be able to use. They will still be able to play the discs.

 

I still want a PS3