http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/s..._Exclusive/1325

The war is over!

Thoughts?

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Time to pick up some cheap HD DVDs!

I hope people freak out and start selling their shit so I can take advantage of it!

It ain't over till Universal concedes, but its going to be really really difficult now for HD DVD to survive.

I've supported both formats for while now and will continue to support both until only one format is available.

My HD DVD player is the 360 Add-on so it will always be in my main viewing room so I am not to concearned if the format fails as I will always have this add-on to play HD movies!

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Last edited by exstasie on Jan-05-2008 at 17:10

Receives a big meh from me.

at $40/title they can keep both formats.

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Originally posted by Orko Receives a big meh from me. at $40/title they can keep both formats.

If you're paying $40 per title then you're getting ripped off.


There are tons of places you can get decent HD movies for $19.99 or $24.95

I bought a few Blu-Ray Movies a couple weeks ago for $9.99 each.

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where?

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Originally posted by exstasie If you're paying $40 per title then you're getting ripped off. There are tons of places you can get decent HD movies for $19.99 or $24.95 I bought a few Blu-Ray Movies a couple weeks ago for $9.99 each.

what bluray player do you have? does it support profile 1.1 or is it only 1.0?

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Originally posted by exstasie Time to pick up some cheap HD DVDs! I hope people freak out and start selling their shit so I can take advantage of it! It ain't over till Universal concedes, but its going to be really really difficult now for HD DVD to survive. I've supported both formats for while now and will continue to support both until only one format is available. My HD DVD player is the 360 Add-on so it will always be in my main viewing room so I am not to concearned if the format fails as I will always have this add-on to play HD movies!

yup watch all those titles dip in price. I gotta admit I am not surprised by this. HD-DVD didn't really do much to give an exclusive kind of product and am kinda pissed that even the 360 add on didn't give us even TrueHD.

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"(hears phone ring) "OH FUCK HERE WE GO! (picks it up) SHITT what what??"

-Dane Cook

why does this mean the format war is "over"? (I'm honestly asking, since I'm not super current on this topic)

Doesn't this just mean that Warner, who currently supports both formats, is now going Blu-Ray as of this summer?

Aren't there still other major players on the HD-DVD side, like Universal, Paramount, Dreamworks, etc?

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Exactly!!! to be honest it seems like this war is not going to end any time soon and non of the players in the game will ever admit that they lost the fight(when they actually do).

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And my HDDVD player is still in the mail with a shitload of movies... but i honnestly think that if Blu wins, the consumers will be the big losers.

Sony is reknown for having bad commercial practices, closed architecture, and just being overpriced.

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i'll support blu-ray and only blu-ray cause of the ps3, which i'll pick 1 up later in the year when the price drops $499.99 is still way to expensive for my blood.....not to mention the blu-ray discs do hold more then a hddvd.....i also have a giant dvd collection and im not in a hurry to buy new blu-ray movies for $35.99 and i wont rebuy my dvds on another platform(unless its Scarface or DieHard).......

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Originally posted by MarkT why does this mean the format war is "over"? (I'm honestly asking, since I'm not super current on this topic) Doesn't this just mean that Warner, who currently supports both formats, is now going Blu-Ray as of this summer? Aren't there still other major players on the HD-DVD side, like Universal, Paramount, Dreamworks, etc?

Apparently Time Warner Brothers own about 70% of the distribution, so if they pick Blu-Ray it's basically the decision, they supported both formats for a while, but had till the end of the month to make a decision. Also according to the older format wars, which ever the porn industry supported usually becomes the main format.

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