Is Paramount Following Warner Bros. in Leaving HD DVD?

[GlocksRock]

HDMI cables are so cheap, that manufacturers could include them with their players, just like everyone includes RCA cables with their gear. But you are correct about them living in harmony for a while, I just wish the more local stores besides blockbuster carried blu ray, and even their selection isn't that great and they only have 1 copy of each title. Hopefully they will start to add more and more as HD DVD slowly dies off.

 

[j_garcia]

I haven't had a VCR in my system for almost 10 years now.

It took DVD a while to catch hold because there weren't enough movies available in the first few years and that was because not a lot of places were capable of producing them. That isn't an issue now and title selection is already fairly decent just one year in. When I bought my DVD player there were maybe 100 titles available, if that, and almost no place to buy them, and practically no place to rent them (there were two in my area suprisingly). Media won't be slow to come out, especially if there is only one format. The issue lies in the fact that the average consumer is already happy with DVD, as someone mentioned, and while the difference is certainly there, it isn't the same light year jump that DVD is over VHS (at least not to the point that the average consumer will care enough...)

Oppo includes a decent HDMI cable with their players.

 

[aberkowitz]

HDMI cables are so cheap, that manufacturers could include them with their players, just like everyone includes RCA cables with their gear.

That would be an incredibly smart idea... it would also be smart for them to be bundled with HDTVs as well. I could imagine companies like Monster and AudioQuest having major objections .

 

[mtrycrafts]

I could imagine companies like Monster and AudioQuest having major objections .

That could be a bigger incentive for some companies to beat back the fluff

 

[Buckeye_Nut]

so if BD wins ... will dual format players stay or die as well? cause that would suck for those who own lots of HD DVD's!

I suspect that the select few who spent millions developing the dual format player are now kicking themselves.

 

[GlocksRock]

That would be an incredibly smart idea... it would also be smart for them to be bundled with HDTVs as well. I could imagine companies like Monster and AudioQuest having major objections .

I hope those companies would object, maybe they could lower their prices then... I hate that places like Best Buy make huge profits on cables, I've seen ridiculous markup on some cables. I saw a standard SATA drive cable sell for $20 at best buy, this cable probably only cost pennies to make, and should sell for no more than $5, but they are making money hand over fist on cables, and it makes me sick. I just wish I could stand at the cables section of the stores and advise people to buy their cables from places like blue jeans, and monoprice instead of giving their hard earned money to these evil corporations.

I'm sure nobody would object to paying an extra $5 or $10 on their HDTV to have a decent HDMI cable included, which could save them a lot of money in the long run.

 

[Buckeye_Nut]

I hope those companies would object, maybe they could lower their prices then... I hate that places like Best Buy make huge profits on cables, I've seen ridiculous markup on some cables. I saw a standard SATA drive cable sell for $20 at best buy, this cable probably only cost pennies to make, and should sell for no more than $5, but they are making money hand over fist on cables, and it makes me sick. I just wish I could stand at the cables section of the stores and advise people to buy their cables from places like blue jeans, and monoprice instead of giving their hard earned money to these evil corporations.

I'm sure nobody would object to paying an extra $5 or $10 on their HDTV to have a decent HDMI cable included, which could save them a lot of money in the long run.

Agreed...... I've been known to buy cables at BB.(if only for convenience reasons)
IE....I buy "X" component today, I don't really want to wait for cables to arrive by mail. And no...my purchases aren't planned that far in advance. When I make up my mind, I pull the trigger pretty quick...LOL

After making a recent return (my HD-A3 player), I might consider buying cables at BB AND from a bJeans or Mono online. The BB cables will serve as a stop-gap until the package arrives by mail....and then I will return them.

 

[GlocksRock]

I bought the $20 SATA cable from them only because the cable I got on ebay was defective, and I wanted to get my new hard drive up and running without having to wait to return the defective cable, and order a new one. So I just used my $25 visa gift card on a $20 cable... I didn't have patience, and at the time I didn't know about monoprice, or firefold.com which is local to me and I could have just driven over and got the cable for super cheap. But as long as I can return the cable when my online ones arive, I would do the same thing.

 

[aberkowitz]

I might consider buying cables at BB AND from a bJeans or Mono online. The BB cables will serve as a stop-gap until the package arrives by mail....and then I will return them.

I've done that before, returns at BB are about as easy as it gets. The nice things about mono is that they ship really quickly.

 

[stratman]

Give kudos to Panny on this one, they include hdmi cable with their DVD players and their receiver, in my case both my receiver and player contained one 3 foot cable.

 

[GlocksRock]

I hope more companies will start doing that in the future, and I expect they will as most everything is going the way of HDMI now. Most new tv's have at least 2 or 3 HDMI inputs on them.

 

[aberkowitz]

I hope more companies will start doing that in the future, and I expect they will as most everything is going the way of HDMI now. Most new tv's have at least 2 or 3 HDMI inputs on them.

"C'mon fellas, it's all ball bearings these days."