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techguy911   02-19-2008 at 02:30:23 PM

Hd-dvd has lost the format war so if you were waiting to buy that blu-ray burner for your new rig its safe to do so:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/19/te [...] 2008021904

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spuddyt   02-19-2008 at 06:59:07 PM
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who says they've neccesarily lost? (not that i care, or have been following closely....)

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rallyimprezive   02-19-2008 at 07:10:38 PM
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spuddyt wrote :

who says they've neccesarily lost? (not that i care, or have been following closely....)




According to that CNN article, Toshiba is calling it quits. ;)

Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Target, and Netflix recently made public statements supporting Blu-ray exclusively. That sorta put a cork in it for HDDVD.

It makes sense really, because I bought a HDDVD player. :cry:

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sarafan   02-19-2008 at 07:13:31 PM
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hehe. well, not a total loss... u can still use it as a dvd upscaler :)

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uk_gangsta   02-19-2008 at 07:14:52 PM
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If you bought either a hd-dvd or bd-dvd player before the format war was won, then that was a bit stupid, one of them has to loose, who knows which one?

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rallyimprezive   02-19-2008 at 07:23:50 PM
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sarafan wrote :

hehe. well, not a total loss... u can still use it as a dvd upscaler :)



Very true, and it does a great job at it. :)

uk_gangsta wrote :

If you bought either a hd-dvd or bd-dvd player before the format war was won, then that was a bit stupid, one of them has to loose, who knows which one?



Yea...perhaps it wasnt smart of me. BUT I did buy it on the $99 Wal-mart special and got my 5 free HD-DVD movies, so at least it wasnt a huge financial loss. Oh well. :bounce:

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rallyimprezive   02-19-2008 at 07:33:03 PM
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So I wonder then, how this news will effect the price of Blu-ray players.

Im sure HDDVD movies are going to be on mass sale...

And any movie that was previous available only on HDDVD will probably be available on BD soon?

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Wolfshadw   02-19-2008 at 07:53:40 PM
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rallyimprezive wrote :

So I wonder then, how this news will effect the price of Blu-ray players.

Im sure HDDVD movies are going to be on mass sale...

And any movie that was previous available only on HDDVD will probably be available on BD soon?



I was curious about this as well. A couple weeks ago, I checked Newegg's prices on BD-ROM drives. Then it was $180/190. I checked this morning and it was $145/$160.

I've already seen one or two BOGO sales on HD-DVDs. I'm sure there will be more to come.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for HD-DVD only movies to be republished as Blu-Ray movies. It may happen soon, but not necessarily.

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uguv   02-19-2008 at 08:08:08 PM
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uk_gangsta wrote :

If you bought either a hd-dvd or bd-dvd player before the format war was won, then that was a bit stupid, one of them has to loose, who knows which one?



Just like buying a cd+r versus cd-r or dvd+r versus dvd-r? These aren't the days of VHS versus Beta. Reasonably priced dual-format players probably would have saved HD DVD and kept both formats around.

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halcyon   02-19-2008 at 10:00:43 PM
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I knew I shouldn't have wasted that $180 on a HD DVD player for the Xbox 360. ...thank goodness it was inexpensive. Upscaling DVD player? ...yeah, I guess, but I have a 5-disc Sony DVD carousel for that.

Oh, I shoulda had a Blu Ray Dolt! :pt1cable:

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Sailer   02-19-2008 at 10:30:09 PM
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One big difference, at least the last I checked, is the HD DVD players were generally a lot cheaper than Blu Ray. Maybe that's changing, or will change. Don't know, but this may be better for the companies that make the stuff and not for the consumer.

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halcyon   02-19-2008 at 11:25:14 PM
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Price. Yeah. That's why I got the xBox 360 add on, but I lost because now I'm going to "have to" get a BluRay player anways. Get it, "have to", see that's what I'm going to tell my wife, because you know how critical and important this is in the scheme of things. :ange:

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sarafan   02-19-2008 at 11:25:41 PM
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as the tech matures prices always decrease.. for example, the blu-ray laser was recently shrunk, so the savings at the manufacturing level will trickle down to the consumer level. bottom line being, u shouldnt worry too much about the costs at this point, it'll get cheaper

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pchoi04   02-19-2008 at 11:41:16 PM
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Toshiba and Microsoft got to greedy. Not that we haven't seen this in the past. ;)

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halcyon   02-19-2008 at 11:48:34 PM
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pchoi04 wrote :

Toshiba and Microsoft got to greedy. Not that we haven't seen this in the past. ;)



Wheeew, thank goodness Sony is not "too greedy" :lol:

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Sailer   02-19-2008 at 11:51:12 PM
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I presently refuse to buy anything from Sony, not until they give up DRM and M$ implements a patch that does away with DRM from Vista.

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grieve   02-19-2008 at 11:52:29 PM
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WOOT, i been buying blue ray for ps3... now i can get a burner and start getting silly.

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firebird   02-19-2008 at 11:58:39 PM
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Even though BluRay won, all those poor souls who bought a player that doesn't support Sony's newest BluRay spec are SOL if they want the new features. Too bad really, Toshiba was nice enough to put out a finished product. But hey, if Best Buy says I should have BluRay, then who am I to argue?

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FrozenGpu   02-20-2008 at 12:32:57 AM
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I wonder if a 22" lcd monitor, that's native resolution is 1680 x 1050 would be good for watching blu-ray movies, or is it not worth it in terms of the quality would be awful and not worth it since its not 1080? :??:

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boner   02-20-2008 at 12:45:29 AM
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OH WELL im not gonna buy neither of those in 3 years

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rallyimprezive   02-20-2008 at 12:53:24 AM
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FrozenGpu wrote :

I wonder if a 22" lcd monitor, that's native resolution is 1680 x 1050 would be good for watching blu-ray movies, or is it not worth it in terms of the quality would be awful and not worth it since its not 1080? :??:




I ah....found a way.....to watch Blu-Ray on my 22" and it looks stellar. Quality should be great. It is downsized a bit, but really, it still looks great.

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roadrunner197069   02-20-2008 at 01:08:29 AM
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Sailer wrote :

I presently refuse to buy anything from Sony, not until they give up DRM and M$ implements a patch that does away with DRM from Vista.





DRM? Big deal. Download ANY DvD HD and no more DRM problems.


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FrozenGpu   02-20-2008 at 01:14:14 AM
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rallyimprezive wrote :

I ah....found a way.....to watch Blu-Ray on my 22" and it looks stellar. Quality should be great. It is downsized a bit, but really, it still looks great.



when you say you found a way, what do you mean? I would assume all it woudl take is a blu-ray rom drive, blu-ray dvd, and a pc able to handle that, and a monitor that is capable of 1080? Or is there another way?

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