Comments on: CES HD DVD Event canceled due to Warner announcement

By: Wesley Novack

Wesley Novack — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:40:51 +0000

If Microsoft was such a major backer of HD DVD, you would think that they would announce some news at CES. Nope, they didn’t announce anything related to HD DVD at the Microsoft keynote speech and they don’t have any new products or announcements for HD DVD at the Microsoft booth.

By: HD_is_supported_by_MICROSOFT

HD_is_supported_by_MICROSOFT — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:05:18 +0000

It won’t die so easy. Sony has to fight with Microsoft too..they are a major backup for Toshiba.

By: Lacky

Lacky — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:30:13 +0000

Own both, love both.

I prefer the HD-DVD format as I like the web enchanced features and the over quality.

I have had over 15 bad discs in my Blu-Ray experience, ZERO on HD-DVD.

Bad luck? Perhaps, but Sony is about making money I highly doubt the “highest quality” goes into these discs as they claim.

The format war needs to end, or the DVD will continue to slam these. Uneducated Consumers don’t understand the difference.

I don’t like how it went down, as when I had the choice I purchase HD-DVD. But now I own movies that I’ll continue to watch, but will eventually end up replacing i’d guess.

By: Steven Kippel

Steven Kippel — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:48:08 +0000

Zleet, the majority of Blu-ray discs are not region locked.

By: Wesley Novack

Wesley Novack — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:50:34 +0000

It’s not looking good Mustang68. There are already numerous rumors bouncing around the net regarding Paramount and Universal releasing on Blu-ray Disc.

By: Mustang68

Mustang68 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:57:00 +0000

AAARRRGG…I just bought a A20 from EBAY and love it. Is there any hope????????

By: Jesus

Jesus — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:13:52 +0000

Satan, once again I have to disagree.

Blu rays have much better sound, because there is no compression required. You get pure PCM. It’s not even possible to have better sound quality. The compression used on HD DVD can be extremly good, but studies have proven it is possible to tell the difference.

Also, both formats generally rely on identical VC1, and thus it would not make sense for the Blu Rays to be “blown away” by identical quality. Perhaps you just liked the actual movies on one side better?

Man, what kind of a loser is a fanboy of a video format? Oh, that’s right, the price of lies. It’s ok. I forgive you!

As far as Sony, et al, paying Warner, yes I bet they did, but not as much as the HD DVD folks offered. That was already admitted by Warner. Warner stands to make a lot more money by ending the format war, because then people will buy far more players and discs. The real payoff was Microsoft to Paramount, and I bet that one goes sour for both companies.

By: SATAN

SATAN — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:26:59 +0000

Sony must have paid WB big bucks for this move.
I have personally viewed over a dozen films in each format and can honestly say all the HD transfers blow away the blue rays.

By: Zleet

Zleet — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:08:33 +0000

Cock.

Blu Ray has region protection (i’m in the UK) so royally screws my usual habit of buying discs from abroad.

Now my only options are to drop a ton of cash on a PC that can hopefully get around any region lock or go down the piracy route (which I don’t want to do).

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:32:09 +0000

Let’s face it – the winner of the format war is Standard DVD.

Why do I say this? Because neither HD-DVD nor Blu-Ray offers enough of an improvement to make it a worth while upgrade.

What would win the format wars is a new format, that’s simple to use, wasn’t locked down, and put a high def movie on media the size of a USB stick, which could be used in any computer as well as stand alone players, that was guaranteed to last for 50 years.

Will someone deliver something like that? I’d like it if they did, but I’m not holding my breath.