Topic: Warner Goes Blu-ray Exclusive (Read 1955 times)

SupaDawg · « **Reply #45 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:17:00 PM »

QUOTE(Andronicus @ Jan 5 2008, 02:08 AM)

Those prices you are quoting are not stand-alone, they are the Xbox add-on (right?)

I checked bestbuy.com as well.

Blue ray: $400
HD-DVD: $300

Same story. Although cheeper, HD-DVD is still in the same "over-priced" ball park.
(pisses me off that they are cheeper in the USA, even though the Canadian dollar is worth more!)

no, both the HD-A2 and HD-A3 are standalone players. Also, he was correct in stating his pricing.

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Toshiba HD-A2

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Toshiba HD-A3

Ranger72 · « **Reply #46 on:** January 04, 2008, 05:44:00 PM »

QUOTE(iceman72 @ Jan 5 2008, 02:09 AM)

Well I guess I will be selling my HD addon and all my movies and buy a cheap 20g PS3. It does suck. But all I want is movies. It's bad enough now that not many movies drop on HD. Now this. This now sucks. Plus HD movies are just expensive as hell. I really hate buying them. Oh well, nice try HD and M$. We still win the video game war and thats all that matters.

That war wont be over for at least another 4 years. In that time MANY things will have changed.

bulge2 · « **Reply #47 on:** January 04, 2008, 05:49:00 PM »

QUOTE(Heet @ Jan 5 2008, 02:48 AM)

Buy hard drives instead. Thats what im doing. And at 1TB at a time too.

yep that a good plan bud. many will follow.

QUOTE(xcalixxryderx @ Jan 5 2008, 02:56 AM)

As far as blu-ray goes dont you have to have an internet connection for that? maybe I'm wrong but if thats the case I cant see my 70+ yr old grandparents paying for broadband just to view a movies

i see your point, my 75 year old gran doesnt even know what the internet is, but your point is really aimed at those who prefer to have a tangible product with nice box and inlay. Imagine a 20 year old in 40 years, i think they will know what to do? The xbox360 is already providing a HD movie download service - its just the start of a very big thing.

QUOTE(Sc0rpion @ Jan 5 2008, 02:56 AM)

What make me laugh is the people stating they will never buy blu-ray or hd-dvd because they prefer one format to the other,
Fact is when one format win's what will you buy? same thing happened with betamax and vhs - one winner and the other faded away.

The truth is a winner will be pushed through and we'll all be force fed the scrap's that are left.
If after a while you can't buy the losing format what else can you buy

yep your right here really, commercially speaking the product is there in the shop to be bought by people - at christmas i bought my other brother die hard 4 on bluray - he loved it

Sc0rpion · « **Reply #48 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:31:00 PM »

iwannadie: yep we can all nitpick, split hairs whatever, beta may have lived on for a while in a pro enviroment but to the common consumer it died a death, yes I know the history and my homework and always knew it was the better format.

But and it's a big but... what diffrence does it make when the big I am's decide they are not going to produce the format for us mere mortal's.

One way or the other we are shafted into taking what they spoon feed us. so what! your nice new hd-dvd or blu-ray player upscales your old dvd's, I'm in the same boat and whatever happens, I'll upgrade and move on.

Foe-hammer · « **Reply #49 on:** January 04, 2008, 05:58:00 PM »

suns of beatches! Now i'll be forced to get a PS3!

Kidding aside, this is a rather surprising turn of evens, i wonder what really forced warners hand?

iwannadie · « **Reply #50 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:41:00 PM »

QUOTE(Sc0rpion @ Jan 4 2008, 06:31 PM)

iwannadie: yep beta may have lived on for a while in a pro enviroment but to the common consumer it died a death, yes I know the history and my homework and always new it was the better format.

But and it's a big but... what diffrence does it make when the big I am's decide they are not going to produce the format for us mere mortal's.

One way or the other we are shafted into taking what they spoon feed us. so what your nice hd-dvd player upscales your old dvd's, I'm in the same boat and whatever happens I'll upgrade and move on.

My nice new HDdvd player also plays my stack of hd dvds, guess what they will still play years from now. So what if blu wins and hd is forgotten, my disks still work. People act like suddenly tomorrow HDdvds will suddenly be coasters.

Some time in 2008 when HD new release start to dry up(if they do), a dual format player will be out for those who want to keep up to date. Selling all your HDdvds right now to me just makes no sense at all, they still work and will continue too lol.

QUOTE(Foe-hammer @ Jan 4 2008, 06:34 PM)

suns of beatches! Now i'll be forced to get a PS3!

Kidding aside, this is a rather surprising turn of evens, i wonder what really forced warners hand?

I wonder too, because the press release made no sense.

"A two-format landscape has led to consumer confusion and indifference toward high definition, which has kept the technology from reaching mass adoption and becoming the important revenue stream that it can be for the industry," said Tsujihara. "Consumers have clearly chosen Blu-ray, ..."

So on one side the consumer is confused yet, the consumers have Clearly chosen?

BoNg420 · « **Reply #51 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:15:00 PM »

i always thought bluray had a better selection of movies, now its over for HDDVD...

bluray is going down in price. you can get a player for $300 now, I listed some for that price on ebay.

sinister slipknot · « **Reply #52 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:16:00 PM »

QUOTE(bubbafett4hire @ Jan 5 2008, 01:24 AM)

I have to say hurray for blu-ray only cause i have to look at the fact that all discs i don't care how well you take care of them get some kind of little surface scratch that with most disks means a skip or a loss of data and i know blu ray you can damm near (not all the way) slide it across the floor and it will sill play like a champ not only that with the format war going and a majority of people only caring about there HD movies people i think forget that storage wise on a BR you can't beat i know there burners still carry the 600 - 1000 price tag but who can say no to 50 gigs on one disc

Ever heard of HD-DVDs triple 17GB layered disc? Oh yeah, you get the extra GB

Barnolde · « **Reply #53 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:17:00 PM »

Cry bitter tears fanboys.

Blu-ray has outsold HD DVD every single week this entire year, it has more company support (even before WB), it has better specs and it was always going to win.

warmaster_670 · « **Reply #54 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:57:00 PM »

QUOTE(sinister slipknot @ Jan 4 2008, 08:52 PM)

Ever heard of HD-DVDs triple 17GB layered disc? Oh yeah, you get the extra GB

meh, quad BR have been made, 100 gig disc there, not that ittll be needed for years to come.

Yamthief · « **Reply #55 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:22:00 PM »

Looks to me like Sony finally won the format war. To be fair, Blu-Ray is a lot better than HD-DVD and is the logical choice for consumers in the know..

I'm glad i didn't get a HD addon drive for my box now

iwannadie · « **Reply #56 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:22:00 PM »

QUOTE(Barnolde @ Jan 4 2008, 06:53 PM)

Cry bitter tears fanboys.

Blu-ray has outsold HD DVD every single week this entire year, it has more company support (even before WB), it has better specs and it was always going to win.

Lol, I just refuse to become locked into a sony proprietary format. Lets look at some other sony formats and you can tell me how great they are?

mini disc, memory sticks, atrac, umd, hi-md ,etc.

warmaster_670 · « **Reply #57 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:24:00 PM »

QUOTE(iwannadie @ Jan 4 2008, 08:58 PM)

Lol, I just refuse to become locked into a sony proprietary format. Lets look at some other sony formats and you can tell me how great they are?

mini disc, memory sticks, atrac, umd, hi-md ,etc.

and? none of them won, not that umd had anything to win, blu ray is winning here, they have nothing in common.

Yamthief · « **Reply #58 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:28:00 PM »

QUOTE(Barnolde @ Jan 5 2008, 01:53 AM)

Cry bitter tears fanboys.

Blu-ray has outsold HD DVD every single week this entire year, it has more company support (even before WB), it has better specs and it was always going to win.

Just because 1 format is better than an other doesn't guarantee it'll win. Do you remember betamax??

QUOTE(warmaster_670 @ Jan 5 2008, 01:57 AM)

meh, quad BR have been made, 100 gig disc there, not that it'll be needed for years to come.

years? with the rate that memory and storage are moving at the moment i'll have a few 100GB discs laying around my desk by the end of the year.
Just because they won't be used for movies or games doesn't mean they won't be used.
I just want Sony to hurry up and make a BD-Ram and a Memory stick that's actually useful

amak1131 · « **Reply #59 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:29:00 PM »

QUOTE(prplehz @ Jan 4 2008, 04:10 PM)

And to the guy that said MS putting a HDDVD player in the 360 would have made a huge difference. I could not agree more. That would have been a huuge market base of people that would have bought HDDVDs just because they could play them in the 360 as is.

Edited: After thinking about it some more...

it likely would have helped, but if the HD-DVD format went to hell, the 360 may have gone with it.

sticking to hd-dvd when/if i ever get a hd player. Sony's ignorance must not be rewarded.

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