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.
Eh, it still looks great though.
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| Author: | eddieringle [Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anybody do anything they regretted over Winter Break? |
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. Eh, it still looks great though.
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| Author: | Gwanky [Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anybody do anything they regretted over Winter Break? |
Quote: 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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| Author: | FinalWarrior [Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anybody do anything they regretted over Winter Break? |
Quote: Quote: 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) -- Griffinhart |
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| Author: | Tycho [Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:08 am ] |
| Post subject: | Are you happy that Blu-Ray won? |
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). http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23262620/ |
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| Author: | prophile [Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anybody do anything they regretted over Winter Break? |
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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| Author: | Gwanky [Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anybody do anything they regretted over Winter Break? |
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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| Author: | Rickton [Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anybody do anything they regretted over Winter Break? |
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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| Author: | FinalWarrior [Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Anybody do anything they regretted over Winter Break? |
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. -- Griffinhart |
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