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 Post subject:Re: Anybody do anything they regretted over Winter Break?
PostPosted:Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:13 am 
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Hahaha, funny thing, we didn't get an HD DVD player, instead, my parents misread the box and bought an upscale to HD DVD player. So basically, its a normal DVD player, which cheats to look prettier. :P

Eh, it still looks great though. :D

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PostPosted:Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:17 am 
 

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Well, my dad got a Blu-Ray. He'll regret it the rest of his life when HD-DVD becomes the standard.
Uh-Oh I hope you followed in your father's footsteps and got a Blu-Ray as well.

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PostPosted:Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:25 am 
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Well, my dad got a Blu-Ray. He'll regret it the rest of his life when HD-DVD becomes the standard.
Uh-Oh I hope you followed in your father's footsteps and got a Blu-Ray as well.

(The War is Over Blu-Ray just won)
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 Post subject:Are you happy that Blu-Ray won?
PostPosted:Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:08 am 
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Don’t be so quick to cheer a victory by the evil axis of Sony-Apple-Disney. This is not a victory for the consumer, but rather a victory for the marketing machines of these amoral corporations. Now that there will be no competition for the Blu-Ray format, you can bet that the prices of Blu-Ray DVDs and Blu-Ray players will stay at the unreasonably high levels they are currently at.

As for HD-DVD players, I am still looking forward to getting many years of use from them, playing both the HD-DVD disks that are already on the market, as well as my library of regular DVDs that it does a great job of “up-converting” to the higher resolutions. Yes, I suppose at some point I will have to break down and buy a Blu-Ray machine, but you can bet your bottom dollar that it won’t be a Sony, and that I won’t get it at Best-Buy or Wal-Mart.

How happy are you going to be when you have to upgrade that expensive Blu-Ray player next year with an even more expensive model? Just remember though, that Sony really loves you (Ha).

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PostPosted:Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:01 am 
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I'm very surprised by this victory, given past format wars.

So first we had the war of VHS versus Betamax. The former format was named with an acronym, and was marketed; Betamax had a name, and was technically a better format, and was defeated.

Since then we've also had USB and FireWire.

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PostPosted:Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:49 am 
 

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This is clearly a victory for the consumer, competition is normally good for the consumer, however in this case it is not. The slightly better off than average Joe can't afford both a Blu-Ray an HD-DVD player. He can afford one, perhaps he'll get a discount if he buys it with his nice new HDTV. Now how we'll he feel if he bought an HD-DVD player and suddenly there's no new movies coming out for it?

Anyway I have a PS3 so wahoo!


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PostPosted:Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:06 pm 
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It doesn't really matter. In 3 years we'll have something new and better anyway. Honestly I'm surprised the war didn't last long enough for both of them to get deposed by something new.

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PostPosted:Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:06 pm 
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I'm just glad that the 360 wasn't designed to run solely on HD-DVDs. Y'know all those Blu-Ray-only movies?

I can get many of them in high def via my 360, thanks to XBL. :D

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