Will blu-ray win already?!

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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    acoustic guy wrote:
    Does this mean all my DVD's are going to be useless like my old VHS tapes?
    I own a lot of DVD's.
    No. Blu-ray plays DVDs, and even if it didn't, just buy a $30 dvd player. DVD isn't going away anytime soon.
  • Brain of mJ
    Brain of mJ Posts: 786
    Or buy an upconverting DVD player for like 100 bucks, it won't be as snazzy as BD, but certainly a cheaper upgrade, especially if you don't have a 1080 HDTV.
  • Blackeyedangel
    Blackeyedangel Posts: 262
    Already? This thing has gone on for far too long already.

    Yes, blu-ray has won. It's over.

    I'm amazed by how ignorant people remain to disc formats. The reason VHS didn't work with DVD players is because they are two completely different mediums. Blu-ray is on a disc just like DVD, so as long as the player supports the DVD format it should be good (and come on, what company is going to be dumb enough to not include DVD playback on their blu-ray players?)
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Blackeyedangel wrote:
    Already? This thing has gone on for far too long already.

    Yes, blu-ray has won. It's over.

    I'm amazed by how ignorant people remain to disc formats. The reason VHS didn't work with DVD players is because they are two completely different mediums. Blu-ray is on a disc just like DVD, so as long as the player supports the DVD format it should be good (and come on, what company is going to be dumb enough to not include DVD playback on their blu-ray players?)
    "Already" as in a frustration "already", like "get on with it already!"..
  • Blackeyedangel
    Blackeyedangel Posts: 262
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    "Already" as in a frustration "already", like "get on with it already!"..
    I will allow this.
  • faithful227
    faithful227 Posts: 352
    And it's officially over.

    Finally.


    :)
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  • 1STmammal2wearPants
    1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 3,001
    faithful227 wrote:
    And it's officially over.

    Finally.


    :)

    right. still will be a couple years (at least) till the format finally gets a strangehold on people's attention tho. DVDs are still extremely popular.
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  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    blu-ray wins. now more companies will design blu-ray players. unless sony owns some kinda patent. im still not gonna buy a blu-ray yet but im glad this thing is over with.

    here is the story on the yahoo page.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080219/ap_on_bi_ge/japan_toshiba
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  • faithful227
    faithful227 Posts: 352
    1STmammal2wearPants wrote:
    right. still will be a couple years (at least) till the format finally gets a strangehold on people's attention tho. DVDs are still extremely popular.


    No doubt. But I'm excited because all new releases will finally be available on one format. Eventually anyway. Wondering what Universal and Paramount's plans are looking like. I assume they had some sort of plan ready for this to happen.
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    It's about time!

    Can't wait for Paramount to release some Blu-ray movies!
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,712
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    It's about time!

    Can't wait for Paramount to release some Blu-ray movies!
    Yeah there are a few I'm looking forward to getting :P
  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    Update.


    as of today, toshiba announced they will abandon all work on HDDVD.

    Toshiba was the formats strongest supporter, they will be going Blu-ray.

    this is a major nail in the coffin of HDDVD.

    no go out and buy your PS3, or blu-ray players with confindence.
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  • JSBE
    JSBE Posts: 1,078
    faithful227 wrote:
    No doubt. But I'm excited because all new releases will finally be available on one format. Eventually anyway. Wondering what Universal and Paramount's plans are looking like. I assume they had some sort of plan ready for this to happen.

    paramount and universal make it official that they will start making blu-ray dvds.

    http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/12789;_ylt=AiglZCAcFTaeRr20oae._5aOMJA5

    http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Universal/Universal__Studios_Goes_Blu/1483
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,352
    JSBE wrote:
    paramount and universal make it official that they will start making blu-ray dvds.

    http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/12789;_ylt=AiglZCAcFTaeRr20oae._5aOMJA5

    http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Universal/Universal__Studios_Goes_Blu/1483


    Hahaha, imagine that!

    Good to see though. I'm glad all the movies will be coming out on Blu! :D
  • Swan
    Swan Posts: 350
    Toshiba will stop (or has already) manufactoring HD-DVD players and will exclusively manufactor blu-ray players.

    And Universal Studios are "focusing their attention on blu-ray."

    http://cbs5.com/entertainment/toshiba.hd.dvd.2.657827.html

    Can you play normal DVD's on a Blu-Ray player?
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    I just bought an HD-DVD player. Crazy? Hear me out.
    ...
    I went down to Costco and picked up a Toshiba HD-DVD player for 79 bucks. It came with the first 2 'Bourne Identity' movies... which I haven't seen either of, yet. I fill out a coupon and send it in and get 5 more HD-DVDs.
    Stupid me? Wait... I got/get 7 HD-DVDs and a player for 79 dollars.
    Compared to the $449.00 Blu-Ray player at Costco, 79 bucks is cheap. This way... I can wait out the technology/price curve and wait another 4 or 5 years til the Blu-Ray players get into the 100 dollar range. The HD-DVD player will still play my regular DVDs, right? Also.. the stores that carry HD-DVDS will be dumping them for cheap.
    Now, for the cost of about 80 bucks, i can pass the time til the Blu-rays come down in price, as the manufacturers compete for the business and pick one up at a managable price.
    ...
    Does that makes any sense?
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  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    Cosmo wrote:
    I just bought an HD-DVD player. Crazy? Hear me out.
    ...
    I went down to Costco and picked up a Toshiba HD-DVD player for 79 bucks. It came with the first 2 'Bourne Identity' movies... which I haven't seen either of, yet. I fill out a coupon and send it in and get 5 more HD-DVDs.
    Stupid me? Wait... I got/get 7 HD-DVDs and a player for 79 dollars.
    Compared to the $449.00 Blu-Ray player at Costco, 79 bucks is cheap. This way... I can wait out the technology/price curve and wait another 4 or 5 years til the Blu-Ray players get into the 100 dollar range. The HD-DVD player will still play my regular DVDs, right? Also.. the stores that carry HD-DVDS will be dumping them for cheap.
    Now, for the cost of about 80 bucks, i can pass the time til the Blu-rays come down in price, as the manufacturers compete for the business and pick one up at a managable price.
    ...
    Does that makes any sense?

    sure it makes sense. but even if you buy HDDVD movies for the next year sor so at a really low price, you are still investing in a format that will be gone very soon. not to mention , there will be no new movies released in the HDDVD format. so regardless, i think its a waste. what happens when your HDDVD player finally craps out on you, ( and it will ) and you cant get another one, and you have 50 HDDVD's that you bought out of the bargin bin for 5 bucks a pop, and you cant play them?

    more power to ya, not my thing. good luck.
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    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    the wolf wrote:
    sure it makes sense. but even if you buy HDDVD movies for the next year sor so at a really low price, you are still investing in a format that will be gone very soon. not to mention , there will be no new movies released in the HDDVD format. so regardless, i think its a waste. what happens when your HDDVD player finally craps out on you, ( and it will ) and you cant get another one, and you have 50 HDDVD's that you bought out of the bargin bin for 5 bucks a pop, and you cant play them?

    more power to ya, not my thing. good luck.
    ...
    Thanx...
    The way I'm playing it... i'm not planning on buying a bunch of HD-DVDs... unless they are at the 99cent Store. I can always buy the Blu-Ray version later and take the 5 dollar per disc loss spread across the time span i run the HD-DVD player... 5 bucks spread across 4 to 6 years ain't much. And hopefully, the costs of the Blu-ray discs will have gone down by then.
    And when the thing craps out... it craps out. Oh, well. What do you do when your equipment craps out these days? It gets tossed. Everything manufactured today is built to die.... manufactured to make it cheaper to replace than repair.
    And if it doesn't die... i can alway relegate it to the spare television... or move it into the garage to play CDs until it does.
    It's 80 bucks spread over 5 to 6 years.
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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,352
    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.
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,352
    Swan wrote:
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    Can you play normal DVD's on a Blu-Ray player?

    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! ;)

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