HD-DVD Death Made Official!

[mRx 16]

Boy I lost pretty big on this. Although I knew it was coming once WB retreated to Blew Ray.

I really thought HD-DVD had a good chance. Their players were less problematic and more affordable than Blu Ray.

I have a 800 dollar HD-DVD player. I learned my lesson. The only loser in a format war is the comsumer.

[GaryC 7]

Boy I lost pretty big on this. Although I knew it was coming once WB retreated to Blew Ray.

I really thought HD-DVD had a good chance. Their players were less problematic and more affordable than Blu Ray.

I have a 800 dollar HD-DVD player. I learned my lesson. The only loser in a format war is the comsumer.

Ouch! That sucks! I was fortunate during the Beta/VHS format wars. I bought a VHS. But in a sense I was a looser because the damn thing cost me $500 back in the 80's. Blue-Ray will be the same way. Right now you can get them for $300 at CircuitCity but I am sure 5 years from now they will be $100. I guess it depends on how far ahead of the curve you want to be. The older I get the less I care if I have the "latest" thing. I would rather hang back and let them work out the bugs and see the prices come down.

[Ban Hammer 12,878]

Boy I lost pretty big on this. Although I knew it was coming once WB retreated to Blew Ray.

I really thought HD-DVD had a good chance. Their players were less problematic and more affordable than Blu Ray.

I have a 800 dollar HD-DVD player. I learned my lesson. The only loser in a format war is the comsumer.

pretty much. exactly why i wait years to buy something, let the standards become......standard.

[Heracles 417]

Boy I lost pretty big on this. Although I knew it was coming once WB retreated to Blew Ray.

I really thought HD-DVD had a good chance. Their players were less problematic and more affordable than Blu Ray.

I have a 800 dollar HD-DVD player. I learned my lesson. The only loser in a format war is the comsumer.

I cannot believe Blu-ray won. Sony are such rip off artists. They make Apple look cheap..

[DeadPoolX 9]

Boy I lost pretty big on this. Although I knew it was coming once WB retreated to Blew Ray.

I really thought HD-DVD had a good chance. Their players were less problematic and more affordable than Blu Ray.

I have a 800 dollar HD-DVD player. I learned my lesson. The only loser in a format war is the comsumer.

I cannot believe Blu-ray won. Sony are such rip off artists. They make Apple look cheap..

What I think it is funny is how the electronics industry panicked when porn "chose" HD-DVD over Blu-Ray as their format of choice. I wrote "chose" in parenthesis because Sony (at least initially) didn't allow pornography on their format. Industry insiders said that when porn went onto HD-DVD, that would boost HD-DVD over Blu-Ray, just as it did VHS over Betamax, and Sony would end up losing again.

I think what some forgot was that during the 1980s, when the battle between VHS and Betmax was taking place, the Internet (as we know it today) didn't exist. Therefore, if someone wanted access to porn, the only viable options were magazines or videos (and some less-than-reputable theaters, but those began to close down after the 1970s). With worldwide access to the Internet today, if someone wants porn, all they have to do is log online, without going through the embarrassment of purchasing a magazine or videotape.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Blu-Ray players should come down in price now that the format war is done with.

About bloody time - should see a lot more uptake of next-gen players now. I think a lot of people were holding off while the format war was going on. I'm just glad that the best technology won.

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

As was not the case with VHS.

Blu-Ray players should come down in price now that the format war is done with.

About bloody time - should see a lot more uptake of next-gen players now. I think a lot of people were holding off while the format war was going on. I'm just glad that the best technology won.

[kaydee457 13]

Ahh, most of you probably aren't old enough to remember the last "burn" when Sony Beta lost out to VHS and everyone that had Beta machines, which by the way, dolloar for dollar compared to todays prices amount to probably three times waht you paid now for a player, so live and learn......

I've held off on my purchase because I thought that Sony was "due".....Lord knows over the years they've been trying again and again to push their "standards" off on us, and this time they scored!

[Flames9_RN 358]

Oh ya we had a beta machine!!! As a child I'm sure I recall my dad stating he bought it for the better porn choices!!

[PlatyPius 5]

We held off on buying a VCR until the format war was over. Once we did buy one, however, we really got one. lol We bought an Akai 4-head Stereo VHS VCR for something like $800. I think those were down to $79 a few years ago. lol

Edited February 18, 2008 by Rocinante

[mawilson 2,133]

Boy I lost pretty big on this. Although I knew it was coming once WB retreated to Blew Ray.

I really thought HD-DVD had a good chance. Their players were less problematic and more affordable than Blu Ray.

I have a 800 dollar HD-DVD player. I learned my lesson. The only loser in a format war is the comsumer.

I cannot believe Blu-ray won. Sony are such rip off artists. They make Apple look cheap..

It's a better technology, plain and simple. It's more expensive because it's better.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Boy I lost pretty big on this. Although I knew it was coming once WB retreated to Blew Ray.

I really thought HD-DVD had a good chance. Their players were less problematic and more affordable than Blu Ray.

I have a 800 dollar HD-DVD player. I learned my lesson. The only loser in a format war is the comsumer.

I cannot believe Blu-ray won. Sony are such rip off artists. They make Apple look cheap..

It's a better technology, plain and simple. It's more expensive because it's better.

Yep - more gigabytes per disc.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Ahh, most of you probably aren't old enough to remember the last "burn" when Sony Beta lost out to VHS and everyone that had Beta machines, which by the way, dolloar for dollar compared to todays prices amount to probably three times waht you paid now for a player, so live and learn......

I've held off on my purchase because I thought that Sony was "due".....Lord knows over the years they've been trying again and again to push their "standards" off on us, and this time they scored!

Sony has had some pretty spectacular failures with their proprietary technologies - Minidisc (only a success in parts of Europe) and the UMD mini-DVD format for their PSP.

[mawilson 2,133]

I still think I'm going to buy a Combo Bluray/HD-DVD player just to be safe.

I like this one: Samsung BD-UP5000.

[EricC 0]

I was rooting for blu-ray Mostly because I will get a PS3 in the future.