Will blu-ray win already?!

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  • brainofPJ
    brainofPJ Posts: 2,361
    ahhhh...

    i love my low-priced dvds


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    hi Esther, now we are all going to be sick, thanks
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,712
    mca47 wrote:
    I don't know cosmo, but to me that seemed like a bad idea. You can get a PS3 for $399 which comes with 5 free Blu discs and be in the format of the future and has free firmware downloads and a game system to boot.
    Yeah, the HD-DVD player cost you $80 and got a couple of free movies but it's dead and done with. Bluray players will come down and most big name companies will be less then $200...they've all admitted to it. THey have cheaper BD players in Japan now that are about $150.

    Bluray is in the same spot DVD players were years ago. Soon as it became "The format" you could get players for next to nothing.

    Personally I would have taken that $80 you spent and either a) saved for a BD player or b) bought some DVDs while waiting because your future BD player will play them quite nicely.


    An overlooked aspect of Cosmo's plan is that there is currently enough HD-DVDs available to have a 'collection' rivalling most people's current dvd collection, if you like enough of them. When the fire sale starts (er, continues) he can amass quite the collection of HD DVDs, and even with no more movies being released on HD DVD after <insert date here> he'll still be able to find them for a while.

    That said, if Blu Ray can catch on eventually you'll want to get on board (unless the NEW format is out by the time you're ready ;)).
  • Swan
    Swan Posts: 350
    mca47 wrote:
    Yeah. Not only can you play them but the player will upconvert them to "near-HD" quality.
    It's a nice little perk of BD players! ;)

    sweet! it would've been a pain in the ass replacing my DVD's if you couldn't.
    I'm the only Hell Mama ever raised.
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,352
    Swan wrote:
    sweet! it would've been a pain in the ass replacing my DVD's if you couldn't.

    There will only be a few in my collection that I will upgrade to Blu. Other then those I won't be replacing much. All new purchases will be on BD though.
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    mca47 wrote:
    I don't know cosmo, but to me that seemed like a bad idea. You can get a PS3 for $399 which comes with 5 free Blu discs and be in the format of the future and has free firmware downloads and a game system to boot.
    Yeah, the HD-DVD player cost you $80 and got a couple of free movies but it's dead and done with. Bluray players will come down and most big name companies will be less then $200...they've all admitted to it. THey have cheaper BD players in Japan now that are about $150.

    Bluray is in the same spot DVD players were years ago. Soon as it became "The format" you could get players for next to nothing.

    Personally I would have taken that $80 you spent and either a) saved for a BD player or b) bought some DVDs while waiting because your future BD player will play them quite nicely.
    ...
    I know it's dead... think of me at the electronics Vulture or Hyena. I don't see it as an investment... more as an expenditure.
    I get to see my current DVDs on HD... most of which I don't think are worth replacing with Blu-Ray... except maybe 'Star Wars' or 'Lord Of the Rings'.
    and I don't play video games... and i don't watch that many movies. Right now, the Blu-Ray player at Costco is $449.95... I want to pick one up when they drop to about the 150 range. I figure, by then.. the discs will be cheaper, too. To me... 450 bucks is a lot.. but 80... hell, I just dropped 86 bucks on one Eddie Vedder ticket.
    Anyway.. it works for a lot tech cheapskate like me.
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    mca47 wrote:
    Yeah. Not only can you play them but the player will upconvert them to "near-HD" quality.
    It's a nice little perk of BD players! ;)
    All TVs have upconversion in them. They have to. Upconversion DVD players are typically good becasue they have better upconversion chips built into them. Generally speaking, if you have a half decent HD TV, it will already process the upconversion as good as any upconverting DVD player. All upconversion really does is fill in for missing pixels. The better the chip, the smoother it replicates missing video information.
  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    i was at best buy today $150 for a hd-dvd player plus 5 hd-dvds, hahahaha. the hd-dvd choices were slim but they sure are trying to clear that stuff out already.
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  • JSBE
    JSBE Posts: 1,078
    Microsoft's Games Developers Conference keynote speaker John Schappert has said the firm has no plans to release a Blu-ray drive for its Xbox 360 games console in the near future.

    When asked if Microsoft plans to release a Blu-ray drive in light of the demise of HD-DVD, Microsoft's corporate vice president of live, software and services said 'no' while implying that add-on drives don't appear to work for Xbox 360 gamers, pointing out that its HD-DVD drive only enjoyed a 3% attach rate.

    "We have no plans to announce anything like that right now. But I'd also urge you to look at the attach rate for the HD-DVD drive," Schappert told Eurogamer. "It was a 3% attach rate...you also have to take into account how did the other accessory do when you look at the future."

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