Originally posted by skizzell
Standards are still emerging. Triple-layer was recently approved for HD-DVD, putting it at 51 GB, right there with Blu-Ray. Yet none of the players on the market today will support it. It's still too early to tell.
yeah, every couple months someone declares one of the two technologies a winner, but they're still leap-frogging each other.
Was at Costco yesterday and they have a Sony Blu-Ray DVD player for $369.
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Nov-22-2007 20:09
GPC
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Location: Los Angeles
quote:
Originally posted by RobertStern
yeah... i think it's just for fanatics or people with money to blow.
I have both but I am a bit of a nut when it comes to this stuff. I just want to be able to watch as much in HD as possible.
quote:
Originally posted by RobertStern
My wife will watch the normal standard channel, when the same thing is on the HD version of that channel, she don't care.
Ain't that the truth lol.
Nov-23-2007 04:37
GPC
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Location: Los Angeles
Oh and Walmart and Best Buy recently had the HD-A2 HD-DVD players for $99. Thats pretty much a no brainer no matter how blu your balls are.
Nov-23-2007 04:39
MR STROKE
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both.
if you don't have either, now(black friday) is a great time to get one...199$+10 movies(amazon)
Nov-23-2007 09:21
elektrikal
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I have blu-ray with my PS3, best looking video I have for it is Galapagos documentary by BBC. They do the best documentaries and really take care with their cinematography and picture quality.
Nov-23-2007 21:08
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Based on industry research, the consumer acceptance of HD-DVD and Bluray is higher versus the time when people initially started using DVD versus CD/VHS as acceptable.
If I remember correctly, Bluray though is more expensive and contains more memory and usually includes games etc so that can become the difference who gain more trial at the onset. Bluray though has the bigger film outfits supporting them it seems.
I'm waiting for the Bluray / HD-DVDhybrid before buying.
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Nov-23-2007 22:17
RobertStern
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Blu-Ray wins
Feb-19-2008 21:44
GPC
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Location: Los Angeles
RIP HD-DVD. Thankfully I only have a few HD-DVDs. Been buying mostly Blu-Ray. Should be greatful to HD-DVD though as without it, Blu-Ray would be MPEG2 only with no advanced audio codecs.
Feb-19-2008 22:02
Victor Dinaire
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yea, looks like Blu Ray is the winner. Was at Costco today. Blu Ray was indeed $369 and the HD DVD Player was $179.
Feb-19-2008 22:12
CReddick
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Location: Los Angeles (Burbank), CA
Was interesting news to receive today at work...
Looking back at it all now, I'd have to say that Sony def sealed the deal by sticking that BD drive in the PS3. HD was kinda lingering in there with Universal and Paramount as HD only studios. Then when we (Warner Bros) announced BD only that Friday before CES, we pretty much put the nails in the coffin IMHO.
No harm no foul. Each camp has had a victory here and there.
I don't think Hi-Def packaged media is going to last as long in the marketplace as DVD did (11 years and counting). I think digital download will obv start to take off here faster than we ever imagined.
I would expect market pricing on the BluRay gear to go up unfortunately now that HD media will be exclusively published on it. And they were already frickin expensive as hell. **sigh**
