buzzmong wrote:Actually, HD-Dooovvd still has the slimist of slim chances to come out on top.
IF all the current HD Player manufacturers stop producing, and retailers drop prices to stupid low levels, and depending on how many are sitting in warehouses ready to be sold, it's still possible for the format to come out on top purely if lots of homes have them
If not we, the public only have ourselves to blame for being stuck with the expensive option.
Chickenz wrote:Fuck you Pete!! I'm all up for a bit of laughy jokey banter as much as the next guy but that comment has crossed the line of simple banter.
Just be careful chaps, there's a fine line between banter and personal insults. Remember, it's only funny if the person it's directed at thinks it is.
Dog Pants wrote:Just be careful chaps, there's a fine line between banter and personal insults. Remember, it's only funny if the person it's directed at thinks it is.
We don't want to have to start using proper punishments. Play nice.
I have been waiting to hear something like this for quite some time. I have been debating getting a new shiny PS3 but couldn't justify the expense now I can persuade myself that I am upgrading my machine AND buying the next gen of movie format
Chickenz wrote:He doesn't want a PS3 even though it has the player built in and doesn't want to spend £350 quid on a Blu-ray player when a HD-DVD player is only £150 and he won't be able to notice any difference in quality between the two formats.
Perhaps explain to him that the reason the HDDVD players are 1/2 the price is that in 6 months (if the paprs are to be believed) you won't be able to buy any HDDVDs and so will just have an expensive upscaling DVD player instead.
/edit ... reads other posts, realises it's alerady been said. nvm
bomberesque wrote:Perhaps explain to him that the reason the HDDVD players are 1/2 the price is that in 6 months (if the paprs are to be believed) you won't be able to buy any HDDVDs and so will just have an expensive upscaling DVD player instead.
Or, more likely, a Cheap HDDVD player that upscales DVDs badly.
Gotta agree with the people being right in this thread. HDDVD is passed on! This format is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, It rests in peace! It's kicked the bucket, shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-FORMAT!!
frankly, I'm happier with this than the slow painfull death of Betamax all those years ago. At least this way we know ... half the early adopters will be pissed off but at least the rest of us are saved the "oooh, ahh, what should I get" decision that left so many of us with Betamax players in teh 80s that could do little more than record tele and play the 5 Betamax vids that the rental shop stocked. Actually I remember a mate of mine had a player that was yet another format, Phillips 2000 or somesuch. He was truely fucked.
Frankly I rekon it's gone down like this because it's not Sony that's had to admit defeat, they would never have pulled support and we'd all be back in the 80's
Frankly, I referred HDDVD as it has a less silly name (there seemed to be little else to choose between them)
V2000, yes and like betamax was arguably the better format. This time the nominally better format seems to have won. While indistinguishable on a TV, the BluRay media has a greater capacity, which is good news for people with writers and also the blank media is more easily obtainable.
no. just, no. no it does not have any chance in hell of doing fuck all.
