HD DVD: 2006-2008

Richard Robertson

BA-BA-BOOSH!

Feb 20 - 05:26 AM

J'rome Holmes II

Good riddins to bad rubbish.

Feb 20 - 05:26 AM

Daniel Klooster

About time. Now lets work on making the Blu-Ray technologies more affordable.

Feb 20 - 05:27 AM

Tim Higginbotham

Now Xbox 360 owners will finally get the Blu Ray add-on we were told about. It's rumored to come out in May. Good riddance HD DVD!

Feb 20 - 05:50 AM

Daniel Klooster

Then just wait and eventually you won't be paying any more for the hi-def equipment than you would to replace your standard def. It's not like you have to replace your old DVDs like when we switched from VHS to DVD. Blu-Ray isn't going anywhere, even if movies go all digital download, we'll still enjoy the capacity of Blu-Ray for storage purposes, even if it's just for computer data.

Feb 20 - 05:54 AM

Howard Smith

R.I.P. BABY!!!!!!! Now time to play the waiting game for the price's to drop...

Feb 20 - 07:36 AM

john player

haha, i remember having a great debate on this web site with a bunch of hd dvd fan boys. they were so adamant that hd dvd was the better format, now look... sad day for them... i wonder why they're not talking anymore?

Feb 20 - 08:06 AM

never machine

I know how MS and Toshiba feel about it, but i really do not foresee HD digital downloads becoming a solid competitive format to rival Bluray. Lets face it. for the majority of the crowd that would even be interested in non-physical downloadable formats, i really don't see these kind of people actually paying for anything when there are other, less legitimate, ways to obtain this kind of media on the internet.

People like having physical things. its dumb, but i know that i am not the only person alive who looks at their DVD shelf and thinks, "Hmmm, this could be bigger, i should have more movies." its not exactly as satisfying to look at a hard drive and think, "wow, i have 65GB of video... better delete some **** to make room for Lost..." besides, look how long it has taken for people to adopt to HDTVs in general. It make much more sense to me for these late adopters to pick up on the next best physical format, rather than a download service. meh, thats enough for this rant.

Feb 20 - 09:29 AM

Ramon Becker

R.I.P. But I think that eventually we will lose at the end. Now that Sony has won the HD market, they have NO competition, and without it they will not be forced to put lower prices on their products. The same thing if HD-DVD wins.

Feb 20 - 10:44 AM

Tim Ahlberg

And then HD-DVD went to technology limbo with it's new friends, Betamax, 8-Track, cassette tape and reel-to-reel. *Sheds single tear...realizes tear is from fatigue and leaves*

Feb 20 - 10:49 AM

Nate 2709

Microsoft can't even get computers and game consoles right, why should we have any confidence whatsoever in their digital download capabilities? I'm saying this as an XBOX 360 owner. Gates is a ***.

Feb 20 - 12:55 PM

Roger Russell

How many times do people have to say Sony does not control the BDA or are the sole creators of BLu Ray Disc....they are a member with lots of other companies just like it was with the DVD association....They do not control prices...Blu Ray prices are dropping more rapid then DVD ever did...people need patience if you cant afford a player right now. Dont bad mouth a good company

Feb 20 - 05:06 PM

jeff smith

sony is not a good company they were only a desperate company as there stocks and financial loses over the years have been devastating. So the found a way to lure all the movie makers to their product. Hopefully the prices will drop fast enough for them to keep the market they now have if not the will eventually lose to the downloads. As a person whom owns over 2,000 dvds having a hard copy is a pain in the but trying to store. As for as sony goes they are now very hungery (and hopefully not to arrogant) but they as a company have a history of putting out merchandise that fails (beta, mini-dvd) sothat now that they have acomplished a major victory and put the better product down, what will be there next stap..only the future will tell.

Feb 20 - 05:39 PM

Mitchell Nash

This is just awesome :) Goodbye HD-DVD and all those stupid arguments over which format is better. What a great day :D

Feb 20 - 09:16 PM

Jesse Wallace

i was an hd-dvd adopter, and although I am glad one of the formats won, i have to comment to all of you who obviously dont know anything about the formats and are saying "the superior format won". thats not actually the truth - the format with more market saturation won. Blu-ray is far from perfected, still has bug and compatibility issues, and is about to release on its 2.0 profile, which, by the way, will render most everyone who purchased a standalone Blu-ray player unable to play new discs without proper firmware updates. hd-dvd was a much more refined technology, and unfortunately it suffered due to the widespread saturation of PS3s.

like i said, i love HD movies, so I will be getting a PS3 or the equivalent to watch them, but i wish more of you that comment actually knew what you were saying before you post...

Feb 21 - 01:17 AM

Daniel Klein

'don't care enough to have an opinion over who should've won. I'm just kind of glad I held my NEED for new toys in check until this was resolved.

Actually, I had to post just to agree with Circe Prankster about the whole spelling/dialect thing. When you habitually misspell, you come across as uneducated, sloppy and not deserving of respect or attention. It completely undercuts what could otherwise be a great point or argument.

If no one ever gives a rabid sh#t about this again, can we PLEASE spell it 'defin*I*tely' with an 'I' not an 'A'? I see that on RT pretty much once per day.

Feb 22 - 08:58 AM

Tommy Thevenet

RIP HD DVD barely knew you.

Feb 24 - 02:51 PM

Tommy Thevenet

Also we get to have huge monolopy for the next genertion of DVDS. Great now we have to pay more for Blu-Ray!

Feb 24 - 02:53 PM

Shawn Amoroso

well, if no one else will do it i guess its up to me and hear i

go.... "Dooo-aaa-doooo-do-da-dooo-doo-daa-doo" that was my bugle playing taps

and yes i think i need lesson;) still i don't really care about this thing

going the way of beta-max, i'm sitting fine with my trusty VCR and VHS

tapes:)

Feb 26 - 06:43 PM

LEEEROOOOOAAAAHHHH MMMYYAAAANKEEEUUUNNNNSSSS

Now if there can be some actual content worthy of HD viewing. [i]300[/i] is the only one that has utilized it with its green-screen viewing option, and that was exclusive to the now-dead format. As it stands, HD is providing barebones DVD-rips.

Feb 27 - 09:38 AM