Blu-Ray Declares itself HD format winner!

[RLA]

Ah, you're just OLD... lol. Ray also had to walk through 10' of snow... uphill... both ways... to get his laserdiscs.

Yep, all that and without shoes. Didn't your momma tech you to respect your elders? Taking lessons from Tom I see

 

[KrisJ]

I'm more interested in seeing HD movies NOW, rather then wait until a victor is declared. Im just siding with Blu-ray at the moment because I picked up a Ps3. The HD-DVD attatchemnt for the 360 may be in my future as well.

 

[stratman]

I'm more interested in seeing HD movies NOW, rather then wait until a victor is declared. Im just siding with Blu-ray at the moment because I picked up a Ps3. The HD-DVD attatchemnt for the 360 may be in my future as well.

You know what happens to the inpatient early adopter.

 

[Tom Andry]

Yep, all that and without shoes. Didn't your momma tech you to respect your elders? Taking lessons from Tom I see

Hey... I'm much better at disrespecting my elders than Clint. He's not even fit to become my grasshopper.

 

[MACCA350]

Unless you buy a machine now, stick to one format, and then buy a dual format player, if and when they hit the market. Again, you're spending quite a wad of cash for lack of patience. Then again if you have the money.....

Thats what I'm planning to do, but if the one I choose now dies in about 2years the dual format players should be cheap. The other thing is, I don't want to spend anymore money on DVD's but I still want to buy movies, so what else can I do. I have no choice but to pick a format now.

cheers

 

[mike c]

Thats what I'm planning to do, but if the one I choose now dies in about 2years the dual format players should be cheap. The other thing is, I don't want to spend anymore money on DVD's but I still want to buy movies, so what else can I do. I have no choice but to pick a format now.

cheers

so which one are you going for?

 

[MACCA350]

so which one are you going for?

I'm still mulling that over......Damn this stupid war. I swear the MPAA should have stepped in and flogged them all till they spat out a single format

I can't stand Sony and their f*****g controlling propriatry attitude , I mean how many different formats do they want, they've tried everything under the sun and how many of them became mainstream? Their like a child, play with this for a bit and then on to the next thing.

HD-DVD now have 5 china manufactures(that should flood the market with cheap players) along with Onkyo and Meridian on board and said they're going to spit out 600 movies this year(and they've had the entire porn industry handed to them on a silver platter). HD-DVD is braught to us by the DVD-Forum, the same people who brought us DVD so there is a good track record there. They had no problems doing dual layer straight out of the gate unlike all Blu-ray's woes trying to get theirs to work. Now HD-DVD said they'll do 51GB discs soon(who knows if Blu-ray can get higher than 50GB to work on the production line given their history). Not to mention that many of the releases at the moment are either better on HD-DVD or the same transfer as Blu-ray. Blu-ray has been slow to adopt the newer codecs and even still use space hogs MPEG and PCM instead of using VC-1 and lossless DTS-HDMA or Dolby TruHD .

Did I mention 1080p porn ONLY on HD-DVD

I don't know....I've got a few weeks to wait for the Toshiba HD-XE1 to be released here so I'll see what happens till then. Maybe Denon will announce what they're going to do.

AAARRRRGGGG.......Stupid.....F*****G........B*****Y......format war! AND ALL I WANT TO DO IS BUY MOVIES!!!!

cheers

 

[mouettus]

I can't stand Sony and their f*****g controlling propriatry attitude

Hey hold on a minute. You gotta admit that they still know how to make nice tvs (audio is crap) and they have great marketing strategies. It's not only because they stand on the top of the hill and they're taking advantage of that situation. Just bought a new tv last sunday. Picked a 40inches LCD Sony because of the quality of the image. Didn't care about the brand.

Now for the format war, what makes the difference between sony to blu-ray and Toshiba to HD-DVD?

And hey, did I mention I have a 52inches Toshiba RPtv too!?

I want Blu-ray to win because the name and the logo are nice! HAHA. Both have huge space on their medias and play 1080p with support for HD-audio as well. Why do you guys care about who wins? Just wait for the final winner and pick up the 200-300$ player then! It's like comparing Toyotas to Hondas. Not Toyotas -vs- GM!!!! (Sorry for you american patriots! )

 

[stratman]

Thats what I'm planning to do, but if the one I choose now dies in about 2years the dual format players should be cheap. The other thing is, I don't want to spend anymore money on DVD's but I still want to buy movies, so what else can I do. I have no choice but to pick a format now.

cheers

Do you have Netflix or a service similar to it? Instead of buy movies now why not just rent till all things get sorted out?

 

[KrisJ]

You know what happens to the inpatient early adopter.

Divorce?

 

[stratman]

If you're lucky.

 

[Seth=L]

It seems dubious for them to claim a victory at this point.

 

[stratman]

I think it was pre-CES hype.

 

[Seth=L]

Everything is hype these days, you can even smoke hype.

 

[stratman]

I seriously think that by this summer's end this format "war" will be gone.

 

[Seth=L]

I seriously think that by this summer's end this format "war" will be gone.

I don't know, hard to say.

 

[The Dukester]

If you're lucky.

Hey, Stratman; if that's your high school senior picture in your avatar, I'd say you were lucky to even have a wife. Jk.
I don't think the war will be over for a year or two at least.

 

[The Dukester]

Yep, all that and without shoes. Didn't your momma tech you to respect your elders? Taking lessons from Tom I see

Ah, Ray, you're just mad because you didn't make the dream team Better luck next year!

It's all good. I still hold you in high esteem regardless of your age for all the help you gave me on some of my HT selections Thanks!

Duke

 

[Tom Andry]

Oh, Ray was there... this time he had to hold his own shoes though!

 

[The Dukester]

Oh, Ray was there... this time he had to hold his own shoes though!

LOL I remember that story! I still bet he's mad he didn't make the team...at least the starting five. Check out post 46. http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28356&page=5