This Week in HD DVD: depressing edition

Hey lighten up atleast you can do articles on all the free bluray downloads with utorrent heres one

This week on thepiratebay

Surfs up goes bluray 1080p download wmv so you can stream it to your 360.

EMOOOOOOOOO

well...American gangster is a good movie....

It was a good run HD. Well, maybe it wasn't. I can't wait until I'm 50 and I'm still hearing about this infamous "war".

Bring on the Blu.

Um, American Ganster is an awesome movie and you couldnt even say anything about it Dustin? Its not gonna matter, but it IS gonna sell a lot of copies.

You mean like Betamax and VHS? Personally, I was very young when that went on, but I think that format war was longer and a more fought battle. This HD DVD and Blu-ray "war" lasted what 2 years and 3 months? Besides, now Blu-ray has another obsticle to hurdle, DVD. You have to conivence people that a 30 Dollar HDMI Up-Converting DVD player is horrible, compared to a 200+ Blu-ray player. I always laugh at the Blu-ray video showing DVD compared to Blu-ray. (I own Both formats by the way) It's just funny when they show "A Knight's Tale", by spliting the screen and showing the difference. The DVD side is from a STANDARD DVD player, if the BDA showed an Up-Converted DVD they couldn't get the wow effect. So I love the product misleading. Show what DVD is fully capable of and what Blu-ray is. Then let the Consumer decide.

And Blu-ray's reign as the dominant format will be alot shorter than DVD's.

DVD will be good enough until a better non-optical disc option comes about.

Toshiba: The time has come Commander Ballmer. Execute order... 66.

Steve Ballmer: Yes, sir.

...

Steve Ballmer: Blast him!

*pew!*

*HD-DVD peripheral explodes*

Steve Ballmer: I got for words for ya'! I. LOVE. THIS. COMPANY! YEAAH-AHHH!!!

How long before some early HD DVD adopter comes in saying he's going to "hang on to my 360 HD DVD add on until it becomes a valuble collectible". I have a Laserdisc machine I'd love to sell you!

What are you guys talking about? THIS IS GREAT! Within the next couple of weeks HD DVDs are going to be on a fire sale and I'll buy 'em all!

@Jay

"Yes, just like music downloads rendered CDs as obsolete."

Well 50% of music purchases are digital. That does hurt CD sales. If I can download a buy the only song I want for a dollar. Why do I want to buy a full CD of other songs I don't want. The only reason CDs are still around is because there are CDs which have 20 great songs on them. That is the only time that warrants a CD purchase.

You're argument makes no sense as well. Did DVD make VHS obsolete? No, VHS is still around and still sells. It's not about obsolete, its about sales. If Digital Distribution takes 40% to 50% of HD movie sales, that does hurt Blu-ray.

wait, American Gangster already came out to theaters? I need to move back to USA.

Toshiba will reportedly be taking back all the HD-DVD stock at the electronic outlets in Japan and making an announcement today. Thats not fair, at least give HD-DVD users a nice firesale. I would love to pick up some movies for 300 yen each.

Sorry that your column will have to be retired early. But since this is 360fanboy and not HDDVDfanboy there is plenty to get excited about with MS making some major gaming announcements this week. You do remember games right?? Let the Sony Droid Army play this Blu-ray format war business as they wait for their next exclusive in months. MS made an add-on, that's it, so it's Toshiba's loss not MS. Grab yourself a copy of Lost Odyssey and enjoy, it's a great RPG.

Oh well.. so much for that

That's it, folks. Last edition. ;-)

HD DVD = RIP, long live HD DVD!

I will be watching my 30+ HD DVD movie collection (good movies worthy of watching multiple times and all the extras) till there will be a non-Sony branded fully specced (2.0) reference BR standalone player (preferably Denon) available for a just price (350/450 euro or something).
This may take up till 2 years before that becomes a reality and in the mean time I'll buy lots of great movies on discount and secondhand HD DVD.

I am not going for a strangely shaped (ugly imo) BR player that as a bonus happens to be able to play few decent games of the Playstation games format.