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- magicaltrevor, on 02/16/2008, -12/+165Whatever camp you were supporting, today is a day of celebration. It took 3 years, but we finally decided on a format. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the HD era.
- hardcore718, on 02/16/2008, -16/+132Everyone who saw this coming, raise your hand. *raises hand*
- tlogank, on 02/16/2008, -13/+108This is actually the best thing Toshiba could do now...for everyone's sake. Now please-let me get Bourne Trilogy and Transformers on Blu-ray soon.
- SantaClauz, on 02/16/2008, -7/+89Well, I guess this is truly the final nail in the coffin for HDDVD.
And if there's anymore ***** nails in this coffin, it might as well be made of nails. ***** nails. - gfrakster, on 02/16/2008, -3/+56Reuters confirms the story:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUS ... - j128, on 02/16/2008, -4/+54Good. I'm glad the format war is over with.
- OverlordXenu, on 02/16/2008, -4/+48How in the hell is the stopping of manufacture of HD DVD hardware and disks not the end of it?
- charlescheese, on 02/16/2008, -4/+40They still have to compete with DVD...
- mywhitenoise, on 02/16/2008, -1/+30I think it was only 2 years.
- Comanche, on 02/16/2008, -3/+30People claiming the BDA will increase prices should examine this a bit closer. What will happen is we will now see many new hardware manufacturers making blu players, even the crap off brands. This will lead to price drops in hardware players (if you dont have a ps3). Media will only get cheaper as it did with DVD to get people to adopt. HDTV sales are growing meaning people will now have a reason to go with HD movies.
- Barmat, on 02/16/2008, -2/+29Until ISP's increase bandwidth it will be a long time before streaming HD becomes a reality. I know some HD content can be downloaded it just takes so darn long.
- shinythingy, on 02/16/2008, -0/+26BDA not SONY
- hrhs556x, on 02/16/2008, -3/+28My Toshiba HD-A35 HD-DVD is on EBAY right now. it's up to $78.35 with 2 days left.
I started celebrating once it went over $30. - SydneyHopper, on 02/16/2008, -3/+27whilst somewhere, in an LG factory, the designer of the world's first duo format player starts to lick some lead paint peelings, hoping to obliterate the memory of the last two years
- spiri, on 02/16/2008, -1/+25And do you seriously doubt that Paramount and Universal will not go Blu-ray if the production of HD DVD stops...?
- dyranios2, on 02/16/2008, -1/+24Oh *walks out the room, gets into car and drives home*
- bdbr, on 02/16/2008, -9/+32WE didn't decide on a format - the studios did.
- Comanche, on 02/16/2008, -5/+28Thats why its NOT ONLY Sony in the BDA. They are a group of hardware makers who still compete with eachother. Why do you think there are Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer and Samgung Bluray players! The prices will only go down now to get those dvd people into HD. Don't you remember when DVD players were 500$. I do.
- pimpzilla, on 02/16/2008, -2/+22As much as i wanted HD-DVD to win, consumers did choose. Blu-Ray has been outselling HD-DVD for a long time, even on the same titles.
- Dantetheinferno, on 02/16/2008, -3/+23No... They're over.
- maldog, on 02/16/2008, -0/+20crap, link:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUS ... - magicaltrevor, on 02/16/2008, -3/+22*****
- Dantetheinferno, on 02/16/2008, -1/+18Blu-ray is technically superior. (Higher storage mostly)
- TheSeptimHeir, on 02/16/2008, -1/+18Are you on Toshiba's Board of Directors or something? You can sit here and rattle off your own personal list of "Top 10 Reason Why HD-DVD Is The Pwnzor", but it doesn't change the fact that a majority of the studios support Blu, Wal-Mart exclusively sells Blu, Netflix and Best Buy recommend Blu, and the market share is already in Blu's favor. Toshiba doesn't care about your "Oh, what should have been" laments. They stand to lose billions on HD-DVD if they stay in the game, and at the end of the day, this isn't some ideological battle over the inclusion of the letters "DVD" - it's a business. And the correct business decision - the decision they will soon announce - is to bow out now.
- Ganja420, on 02/16/2008, -6/+22Oh well at least the HD-DVD movies will be cheap as hell now....
- postaboy, on 02/16/2008, -1/+16The coffin has been nailed more times than paris hilton.
- emblem, on 02/16/2008, -0/+15Definitely. I remember back when the PS2 came out, and nobody I knew could afford a stand-alone DVD player. Now you can get one for a measly $20. Tech trends like this are inevitable.
- SpongeBad, on 02/16/2008, -0/+14Yeah damn, that one company Sony, Pioneer, Panasonic, Samsung, Philips, I could go on...forcing that multitude of companies Toshiba to stop manufacturing HD DVD players.
- HypocriteDigg, on 02/16/2008, -10/+24Oh No Engadget! What are you going to bait your sheep readers with now? Well I guess Apple is still around.
- otakushark, on 02/16/2008, -1/+14...while the rest of us enjoy 6x the resolution and uncompressed audio.
- RedHawk911, on 02/16/2008, -1/+14They can still use them so why should they get money back?, They dont need to buy thoser movies on blu ray then.
- harkondo, on 02/16/2008, -1/+14You have no idea what you are talking about. These are global companies, not American companies. And only some of the first Blu-Ray discs encoding with MPEG-2 looked shoddy. A Blu-Ray encoded with H.264 will look better than an HD-DVD encoded in H.264 because of the higher bitrate.
- MasterPlayer, on 02/16/2008, -4/+16Finally!
- Dantetheinferno, on 02/16/2008, -7/+19Sony's not the only one supporting the BD format, not even the only one initially.
- diggapleeeze, on 02/16/2008, -2/+14No, and we didn't start the fire either.
- Psythik, on 02/16/2008, -0/+12Meh, personally Blu-Ray rolls off the tongue much easier.
With that being said, I used to work at an electronics store. You wouldn't believe how many people gave me confused looks when I told them that the HD-DVD they were trying to buy wouldn't work in their DVD player (unless of course it was one of those back-wards compatible disks). They assumed that just because it had the word "DVD" on the box, that it would work. With Blu-Ray, that confusion is gone. - Dantetheinferno, on 02/16/2008, -3/+15People like owning physical stuff. CD's were supposed to be obliterated by iTunes, but they're still hanging around.
- TheSeptimHeir, on 02/16/2008, -3/+14"I can't buy "Transformers" on Blu-Ray, so HD-DVD isn't really dead." That skewed logic would make a lot more sense if "Transformers" was a decent movie.
- mfontain, on 02/16/2008, -2/+13Soon enough for ya? :) Amazon B2G1 Blu-ray sale is ongoing.....
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link ... - mywhitenoise, on 02/16/2008, -1/+12Actually there's one up on amazon.com
and surprisingly tower.com has some great prices on blu-ray movies. - AaronAM, on 02/16/2008, -0/+11Sony and the BDA were actually working on the format before HD-DVD.
- tims1979, on 02/16/2008, -1/+12I'm pretty sure that all your HD DVDs aren't going to magically stop working. So just enjoy the ones you did get and then start on a Blu Ray collection.
- philhatesyou, on 02/16/2008, -1/+11Transformers? Bourne? ***** all that, I want The Big Lebowski.
- MaxD, on 02/16/2008, -0/+10How could HD-DVD possibly have EVER been the winner??? I mean _SERIOUSLY_ it blows my mind that people thought it even stood a chance. It has nothing to do with the technology, or even the studio backing (really). It's all about market penetration, all about it being bundled with the PS3 (for good, or for bad). Even as an abject failure the PS3 was destined to at least be reasonably successful (which it is) and the number of PS3s sold was always going to dwarf the number of standalone Blu-ray or HD-DVD players sold (about a margin of 10:1 isn't it?) Therefore 10x more Blu-ray players than HD-DVD player, I mean with stats like that there is no possible way that Blu-ray could fail? I mean, It could kill your wife and eat your first born and it'd still look pretty appealing. Yet people are dancing around looking shocked "Oh, I can't believe HD-DVD lost it had 'some small marginally beneficial thing' that Blu-ray didn't".
Now I realise that this is all very easy to say retrospectively, the only proof I can offer that I have held this view for a long time is the fact I own a launch ps3.
Sheeesh - CReyes4182, on 02/16/2008, -1/+11LoL at title.. change "already?" to "finally :D"
- theaceoffire, on 02/16/2008, -1/+11I was going to reply to you with a short list of things I believe is wrong with your statement, but I feel that you wouldn't be interested.
I believe that blu-ray, the format with more room, more supporters, and with more hardware manufactures, was the correct choice. - shinythingy, on 02/16/2008, -1/+11Thats just an ignorant comment. It just shows how little you know about the subject
- KMartSheriff, on 02/16/2008, -0/+10Good point.
- TRENT310, on 02/16/2008, -1/+11Well, I guess now I need to buy a HD DVD player and add it to my collection of Betamax and CED players for historical reasons.
- modafroman, on 02/16/2008, -1/+11You will see paramount and universal movies soon. I expect announcements from them soon after toshiba officially announces end of hd-dvd production.... and then releases on bluray a few months after. I mean, there are already rumors of CC employees snapping pictures on their inventory systems of BD versions of transformers.... its only a matter of time.
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