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I'll still buy a HD-DVD player over a Blu Ray one
rip 360
Quote from: bud on February 19, 2008, 03:46:44 PMrip 360With HDDVD now dead, will 360 sales feel the pain?
I was wrong in this whole scenario. I felt pretty confident HD-DVD would prevail due to a lot of reasons - back catalog, pricing, name, etc. But Sony has deep pockets and used them effectively, and now for the first time ever, they have a format that's not a total dud.
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 19, 2008, 02:47:26 PM"Sony was right"I don't remember the last time I heard that, but I guess it's true. I'll still buy a HD-DVD player over a Blu Ray one If you do, lemme know. I have a couple of HDDVDs I can send ya. Children of Men, King Kong (never watched it), Full Metal Jacket, and The Fountain. I'd rather give them away (or throw them away) than get $.5 from Gamestop.But why put money in HDDVD man?
"Sony was right"I don't remember the last time I heard that, but I guess it's true. I'll still buy a HD-DVD player over a Blu Ray one
Why would retailers stop stocking the console with the best software sales? As a retailer, you make more money from 360 owners than any other customer base. That's ridiculous.
Quote from: Forgotten Ancient on February 19, 2008, 04:04:34 PMQuote from: Phoenix Dark on February 19, 2008, 02:47:26 PM"Sony was right"I don't remember the last time I heard that, but I guess it's true. I'll still buy a HD-DVD player over a Blu Ray one If you do, lemme know. I have a couple of HDDVDs I can send ya. Children of Men, King Kong (never watched it), Full Metal Jacket, and The Fountain. I'd rather give them away (or throw them away) than get $.5 from Gamestop.But why put money in HDDVD man? What can I say, I root for the underdogs
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 19, 2008, 04:39:02 PMQuote from: Forgotten Ancient on February 19, 2008, 04:04:34 PMQuote from: Phoenix Dark on February 19, 2008, 02:47:26 PM"Sony was right"I don't remember the last time I heard that, but I guess it's true. I'll still buy a HD-DVD player over a Blu Ray one If you do, lemme know. I have a couple of HDDVDs I can send ya. Children of Men, King Kong (never watched it), Full Metal Jacket, and The Fountain. I'd rather give them away (or throw them away) than get $.5 from Gamestop.But why put money in HDDVD man? What can I say, I root for the underdogs Then why aren't you rooting for the PS3, which is the current underdog?
Quote from: distantmantra on February 19, 2008, 04:57:56 PMQuote from: Phoenix Dark on February 19, 2008, 04:39:02 PMQuote from: Forgotten Ancient on February 19, 2008, 04:04:34 PMQuote from: Phoenix Dark on February 19, 2008, 02:47:26 PM"Sony was right"I don't remember the last time I heard that, but I guess it's true. I'll still buy a HD-DVD player over a Blu Ray one If you do, lemme know. I have a couple of HDDVDs I can send ya. Children of Men, King Kong (never watched it), Full Metal Jacket, and The Fountain. I'd rather give them away (or throw them away) than get $.5 from Gamestop.But why put money in HDDVD man? What can I say, I root for the underdogs Then why aren't you rooting for the PS3, which is the current underdog?360 is the current underdog. Have you seen PS3's 2008 lineup?
That's really weird--it seemed obvious to me that blu-Ray was going to win from the start. Mostly because people were buying more blu-Ray discs than HD-DVD discs, and as you yourself say--software is what matters.
How the hell was blu-ray going to lose?
Quote from: Genghis Cohen on February 19, 2008, 05:41:39 PMHow the hell was blu-ray going to lose?We were in the middle of a format war less than a year ago - this kind of question is kind of ridiculous.
With BD the winner (yay! I own exactly ZERO HDDVDs (although there are several i want - Shawn , Hotfuzz, etc) and about 60 BDs) i am happy that the format split should now end and that i "backed the right horse" on this front.Although it does seem in hindsight that it was obvious which one was going to win , the HDDVD did seem to have a lot better content overall IMO which was somewhat annoying , but owning an all-in-one player in the PS3 - and a very good BD player at that - then the thought of adding another piece of player hardware or a HDDVD add on was a nonstarter from the get go.I asked this over at the games end of the board, but i personally think it's now going to be interesting to see what happens on the player side. I don't think you can dismiss that the PS3 has had a huge hand in the BD victory in the US, it's definitely been a tactical move that has paid off there - but now it's going to be interesting to see how sony's strategy matures. With BD the winner, i'd expect to see more and more players - with a lot of cheaper options coming out. Right now, BD is synonymous with the PS3 (at least in the US), but if cheaper players start hitting the market then this could well be a bad thing for the PS3. Whereas DVD playback was a bonus for the PS2 (and it was my first DVD and i'm sure many others) , once cut price DVD players hit it was largely irrelevant to Sony's gaming strategy because the games hardware war was over : PS2 was already over the hill.For BD playback though, if the PS3 fails to maintain it's place as the cheapest player, then Sony might not be able to increase their games buying base of the back of the playback although you'd have to assume that Sony's goal was to simply win the war and it could well be that the PS3 as a gaming machine was largely sacrificed in order to achieve that goal - or at least , the risk was known that they maybe taking a much smaller chunk of the gaming market this time around. With that said, the rumours of more aggressive cost cutting and a very early form factor change start to make more strategic sense. And of course, as we are reminded, the 2008 line up is a lot better - so for me it's going to be very interesting to watch the PS3 userbase growth over the next year to see how the PS3 strategy pans out.
Although it does seem in hindsight that it was obvious which one was going to win , the HDDVD did seem to have a lot better content overall IMO
If you do, lemme know. I have a couple of HDDVDs I can send ya. Children of Men, King Kong (never watched it), Full Metal Jacket, and The Fountain. I'd rather give them away (or throw them away) than get $.5 from Gamestop.But why put money in HDDVD man?
Quote from: dcharlie on February 19, 2008, 06:57:52 PMAlthough it does seem in hindsight that it was obvious which one was going to win , the HDDVD did seem to have a lot better content overall IMO HDDVD also had better transfers for awhile. The storage constraints of HDDVD forced them to use newer codecs that not only compressed but also looked better. HDDVD was great simply because it forced Blu-ray to start using newer codecs as well. I hope the death of HDDVD doesn't mean that BD will go back to using crappy MPEG2.
Well, I'm picking up a used PS3 this week. My immediate Blu-Ray library will be:HalloweenEvil Dead II[...]
