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Bue Ray or HD-DVD
01-11-2008, 01:25 PM
#31
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Re: Bue Ray or HD-DVD
Originally Posted by jagojon3
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.
I'd hang on to your DVDs, they are still good enough quality that you can watch them for years to come.
01-11-2008, 05:31 PM
#32
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Re: Bue Ray or HD-DVD
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.
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.
01-11-2008, 05:42 PM
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Re: Bue Ray or HD-DVD
Originally Posted by Ravage70
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
I hate to see the rest of your overpriced home theater
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
01-16-2008, 04:23 PM
#34
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Re: Bue Ray or HD-DVD
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 *** 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.
I have a pretty kick *** 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.
01-16-2008, 04:26 PM
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Re: Bue Ray or HD-DVD
Originally Posted by 94snatch
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 *** 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.
I have a pretty kick *** 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.
01-16-2008, 08:29 PM
#37
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Re: Bue Ray or HD-DVD
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.
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.
01-17-2008, 01:38 AM
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Re: Bue Ray or HD-DVD
Originally Posted by 94snatch
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.
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
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