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Post by Chilehead on Jan 2, 2008 12:30:18 GMT -5
The battle between the Blu-ray and HD DVD formats slogs on, with neither side apparently willing to surrender. Meanwhile, most consumers stand on the sidelines, reluctant to spend money on what could be the war's loser. Will either side ever gain a significant upper hand and rise to ubiquity, or will high-definition DVDs become a niche market for cinephiles as digital downloads gain popularity? Warner Bros. releases movies for both Blu-ray and HD DVD, but it's the only major studio doing both. DreamWorks, Paramount and Universal are entrenched in HD DVD, while Columbia, Disney, Fox, Lionsgate, Miramax, New Line and Sony are burned into Blu-ray. All of the movies are available on regular DVD, which then becomes the safest choice. If standard DVDs, especially when used with inexpensive up-converting DVD players, are good enough -- especially when played on up-converting DVD players --what's next for HD DVD and Blu-ray? Can either format ever truly win? Even if one camp folded up its tents and went home, would consumers care? Would they rush in and buy the winner? www.technewsworld.com/story/web20/61003.html
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Post by Chilehead on Jan 2, 2008 12:40:02 GMT -5
I posted this because I'm a big home theater buff. I have the whole package except the H.D. DVD or Blue Ray player. If one or the other finally came out as the clear winner I would almost definitely go out and buy it. As the article shows, though, most movies are only released in only one format or the other and I'm not going to buy one as long as it remains this way. Especially when all movies are released on regular DVD and both my DVD player and my TV upgrade the signal to a higher definition picture.
Do you one one or the other? If not, will you buy one?
There are also players play both H.D. DVD and Blue Ray. Unfortunately they're around $1000.00 right now. If the price came down to the $100 - $200.00 range would you buy one of those?
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Post by renoman on Jan 6, 2008 11:51:43 GMT -5
Blue Ray will win, it is turning...
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Post by Chilehead on Jan 7, 2008 15:29:57 GMT -5
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Post by Chilehead on Jan 7, 2008 15:32:14 GMT -5
If you read the first story you know that Warner Bros. was the only company releasing it's videos on both Blue Ray and H.D. DVD.
Warner Bros. announcement to only release future movies on Blue Ray only is a huge win for Blue Ray!
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