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It pretty much is over. I can say with 98% certainty that Blu-Ray has won this format war.

I could care less who wins, I just want one of them to finally win and end this stupid war. Who got an HD-DVD player for Christmas? Better sell it on eBay before the general public finds out.

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Downloaded > DVD

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i know. it sux, i wanted hd-dvd to win because the players and movies are cheaper.

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i cant afford any of that ----.

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blu-ray won with that deal they got with the WB and so on. Just wait about 6 months for the price of the drives to go down. Or you can buy it now and get 5 free movies. Out of all the Bluray players i played with the PS3 is the fastest.

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i guess microsoft may sue warner brothers for switching, i guess they had a contract

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lol thats a nice avatar imburne

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Blue ray bitches! ;D

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PS3 ftw!
Sony won because...............................THEY MAKE THE FUCKEN MOVIES!

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PPffft. I'm not willing to spend my $ on any of that stuff. Its nice/cool but people get so caught up in buying "the best" wich becomes outdated 1 month later.

Has the porn industry (or large porn studios) sided w/a formatt?

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ive downloaded high def porn, ---- looks ------- awesome on my 50" SXRD! ;D

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I have a Toshiba HD DVD player, but now Samsung just released a new duo player that will do either, so I may go that way.

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how much will that be? LG's combo super-blu was expensive and full of bugs........

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I say hd-dvd but neither will win it will go to hard drives.

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Completely different types of media, hard drives aren't in this competition.

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exactly! porn is why vhs beat out betmax. porn is why the intenet caught on so much too! we owe a lot to porn. :6

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http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=178

Its seems that they just accepted porn on blu-ray since sony was against it.

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Sony is blu ray. Am I missing something or can you not get 1080p off of a hard drive?

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It runs ~$800 cdn, at out local av place. So about the same as a blu ray player, and unlike the LG that would play hd dvd discs (but did not offer full support, hence no hd dvd, symbol on it) This has full support from both, and the HQV chip, for upconverting non 1080p material. I think I might go pick it up this weekend, have to see how the week goes for $$$.

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You're seriously shelling out 800 dollars to be able to play movies? :l

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I sure as hell wouldn't at this point, I don't see there being a point unless you have a really big screen, say 50" or larger.

On my 37" HD movies look awesome, but so do upscaled DVDs. It's not worth the investment.

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blue ray, but it wont matter. there's always a format war guys. just get use to it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format_war

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Of course it matters ::) This is just what the current format war is, and huge amounts of money are at stake. Maybe the next war will be on which hologram cube is better but that doesn't mean that this doesn't matter.

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I have 300+ dvds, and im wondering if i should sell them off now while they are still worth something and go with hd-dvd or blu-ray . Do these things have a shelf life? Ive seen info on dvd-r, etc but not regular dvds. If they will last ill hang on to them but otherwise im dumping them while i can.

Jago what upconvert player do you have? I read about some not being capatible with dolby 5.1 or some ----.

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Philips DVP 3960. It doesn't cost much for a good upconverting player, I think it was $40 on sale. A lot of HDTV's can also upconvert DVDs.

I'd hang on to your DVDs, they are still good enough quality that you can watch them for years to come.

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I just spent $15K on a home theater setup, whats another $800 at this point. :S

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:l

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Buying a Dual player for $800 is the dumbest ---- ever heard since HD DVD is going to be useless in a couple years.
I hate to see the rest of your overpriced home theater :-X

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All HDTV's upconvert otherwise a DVD would only take up a small portion of your screen. It is just said that DVD upconvert players do a better job than TVs.

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HDTV market penatration is only 13% of NEW sales. Of which the majority are NOT able to display a true high def signal beyond what current DVD's can (720×480). So yeah... In 2020 when more people actually have HDTV's and there is a craving need for a video source that can feed them what they natively run in(1024-3840 x 720-2160). Then the next technology will already be here, bypassing blue-ray. Which will win the format war anyway and be regulated to a hard backup medium as Windows 2015 will take 24.6 gig to install. (tho 1.75tb HD's will retail for $110)

Sorry, but I see neither HD-DVD nor Blue-Ray being anything more than data backup for geeks and a novelty for rich geeks and the smalll portion of the population that own Xbox360's and PS3's.

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Key phrase, "a couple of years" until then I like the ability to watch either, as sometimes it is easier to rent one vs the other, or buy one vs the other. I'm sorry that I am not poor, and I like to watch movies, and tv at home. My "overpriced home theater" works well enough for me.

I guess when it comes right down to it, if listening to what other people thought was "the dumbest ---- ever", I still would be poor. :1

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I just bought a HD-DVD toshiba for $250. Comes with 2 movies in the box plus 5 more by mail.

I have a pretty kick ass home theatre (dedicated room 13'x22', 100 screen with dlp projector, all studio grade rack mount equipment, 1800 watts rms...Blah, blah blah) Regardless of what people tell you the difference with this player even with regular dvd's is quite noticable. I bought it over the blu-ray on price alone. The only downside so far is the boot up time is worse than a reg dvd player.

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You do know that it's going to be obsolete and that's why HD-DVD player prices are dropping so fast, right?

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I got a PS3 so I'm covered. Doesn't really matter though I just download all my movies.

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It does not matter really to me if the HD DVD format does well or not as this player does a great job upconverting my existing collection of DVD's (270 ish). From personal experience I can tell you that all "upconverting DVD players" are not the same when it comes to visible improvements on a large screen.

Don't underestimate the power of cheap combined with flooding the market. I am old enough (barely) to remember vhs vs. beta situation - the basics were beta had higher resolution in a more compact format. Beta was a sony technology that was not re-licensed to other hardware manufacturers. VHS, which was a JVC technology, got slutted out to any POS manufacturer that wanted to build one. In the end VHS, which was an inferior format, won out over a superior competitor mostly because there were more choices on the hardware front. Something else of note is the software side of this equation...hddvd's can be manufactured on modified existing DVD equipment where Blu-ray 's cannot - This sounds to me like you will see more titles on HD quicker than Blu. Who know? $250 is cheap enough for me considering I bought a DVD player in 1997 for $400 and thought that was a smoking deal.

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LOL

Sounds like we got the same thing. :8

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Unfortuantely HD-DVD is being abanoned by content makers for blue-ray, even breaking major contracts and possibly facing the legal repercussions in the process lol!:
Warner Bros left taking HBO and New Line Cinima
Both Paramount and Dreamworks had contracts to leave if WB left. paramount is roumored to be leaving

blue has 70-80% of the studio marketshare depending on where u read. hd-dvd does not