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- Oculus, on 11/03/2007, -0/+6But Blockbuster went exclusively Blu-Ray, HD-DVD is toast!!!!! Oh wait....
- maninblac1, on 11/05/2007, -1/+2Unfortunately, HD-DVD is the technological loser, on all fronts. With 4 layer HD-DVD discs essentially scrapped at this point, HD-DVD will not be the expandable to future formats, let's say 1440p and beyond. The extra space blu-ray offers ensures that future HD and beyond (including it's audio) will be supported.
At this point, HD-DVD is holding on with bargain basement prices and handfuls of cash to its content providers. And it does this so well, because it was a technology designed for now, but not for the future, unlike its other HD counterpart. What worries me is, microsoft's very very deep pockets. - grumpyrain, on 11/03/2007, -0/+1Technologically speaking, online distribution could take over from both formats in about 5 years. People want flexibility and freedom to watch their movies on whatever device they choose. IMO, both formats are moving too far away from this to really take on. If people actually realised that BD+ effectively gave the MPAA a remote kill switch on all the movies they purchased, people would not risk it. In the future, we will type in the name of the movie we want to buy / rent, and a distributed P2P system would stream it live. It can already be done now using a torrent, what the MPAA needs to do is embrace the technology and offer consumers a legal alternative with the same convenience. People who are going to pirate are going to pirate anyway. Why make the experience so terrible for legitimate customers? Blockbuster and similar companies are going to have to really think outside the box. Hook up your stores with a high speed connection, and give them the ability to burn an image on the spot of any movie which is out of stock. Allow them to digitally transfer a movie to your phone or iPod.
There are lots of possibilities and I am sure lots of problems with all of these ideas. My point is that the writing is on the wall for optical media for movies, and if companies don't start innovating in the next couple of years, the transition will see them go the way of the video arcade. - TechBeach, on 11/03/2007, -0/+1I plan to sit-out this "war" and wait for the next generation of media.
- sophia269, on 11/03/2007, -0/+1I wish one of the formats would just "win" so I could buy one of these players. The HD-DVD players on Black Friday look very tempting.
- LordSkywalker, on 11/03/2007, -0/+1Seeing as how sales seem to be even and rentals from Netflix pretty even from what I recall, I don't think it's going to end soon and I can't believe that. I thought it surely couldn't last this long. I don't even want to buy the damn movies. I think $30 on average is too much money for a single movie, even in HD. I just want to rent HD movies, but don't want to have to buy both players. And the dual format players are way overpriced. Get this ***** settled so people don't have to deal with this nonsense.
- maninblac1, on 11/05/2007, -1/+1Oh, speaking of MS's deep pockets, they only get deeper with every bluray and HD-DVD disk encoded in VC-1, microsoft's HD video format. And 15 other companies that "get a cut"...including Sony.
- kwolf, on 11/03/2007, -2/+1sony must own that website ... $98.00 hd-dvd players at wal-mart today.
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