Blu Ray will soon lose to HD DVD

[Darklord Dave]

I follow home video news because of my job and it does seem that BR is outselling HD. However the production costs for BR is so incredibly high that it is now, and for the forseeable future, only possible for the studios. If independents can't release on BR, then it will never supplant traditional DVDs.

As a new owner of a HD TV I'm anxious to get a higher resolution DVD player, but until I can get everything in one format, I ain't converting.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

one thing i think that will hurt the high def. dvd sales are the dropping prices in regular dvds. you can go to walmart and pick up a decent progressive scan player for under $60 and a couple movies at $5. and when the average person doesnt have the money to get the full high definition experience-- let alone tell the difference, they aren't gonna start shopping for HD DVD or Bluray for a while.
~~however, the prices of televisions continue to drop at drastic rates and should help sell more sets. i know im thinking about buying a nice 30" lcd for my computer ($800?? and i can watch movies in 1080p?? heck yeah!!!)

 

[The Josh]

As a new owner of a HD TV I'm anxious to get a higher resolution DVD player, but until I can get everything in one format, I ain't converting.

I don't have an HD TV but I'm with ya in that until I can get everything on one format I won't be doing anything.

 

[King Darkness]

but until I can get everything in one format, I ain't converting.

Ditto. I'm not taking the plunge until I know that there is only one HD disc on the market. I personally dont care if its BluRay or HDDVD, I just want one definitive format.

 

[Jen]

Ditto. I'm not taking the plunge until I know that there is only one HD disc on the market. I personally dont care if its BluRay or HDDVD, I just want one definitive format.

Me too. I have a HD TV but it's only a 30 inch and people have been telling me that to really notice a difference you need atleast a 40" (ahhhhh I can never win, but I got my tv for $400 so I'm not complaining)....I'm getting an upconverter DVD player for now....much cheaper and almost as good as the real thing.

 

[Darth Madden]

I do have the HD TV but I don't have a PS3 or HD-DVD player.. I am happy to wait it out.

 

[The Josh]

Ditto. I'm not taking the plunge until I know that there is only one HD disc on the market. I personally dont care if its BluRay or HDDVD, I just want one definitive format.

Right! Doing anything else in the end seems to just lead to wasted money.

 

[Punchy]

I picked up the Xbox 360 HD player and altered my Netflix account to include HD DVDs. This way I can enjoy an HD format now without investing in a library of movies that may become obsolete later on. You can do this for free on Netflix and you can also add BluRay movies as well if you're a PS3 owner.

 

[user 1190]

Blu-Ray also has one advantage when movies are out out on both formats. The Blu-Ray disks seem to be cheaper sicen a lot of the HD disks are dual format disks and seem to cost more.

I don't see any end to this war any time soon, hell maybe never to be honest.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

Blu-Ray also has one advantage when movies are out out on both formats. The Blu-Ray disks seem to be cheaper sicen a lot of the HD disks are dual format disks and seem to cost more.

I don't see any end to this war any time soon, hell maybe never to be honest.

this is because most of the HD DVD combo discs include the regular DVD version as well as the HD DVD version.

 

[Darklord Dave]

I have an upconvert DVD player, but it seems to only up convert to 720p, not 1080p which is what my set is capable of. But I definitely can see a huge difference between upconverted DVDs and broadcast HD - with the broadcast winning hands down.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

one thing im gonna start doing as movies come out is trade in my old DVDs at Moviestop for new HD movies.

 

[user 1190]

this is because most of the HD DVD combo discs include the regular DVD version as well as the HD DVD version.

Yeah I understood that I was more pointing out that people who have both HD and Blu-Ray will more then likely go with the Blu-Ray version since its cheaper unless they really need to be able to play it on a standard DVD player.

 

[nash]

Dont understand why it has to be win or lose and taking sides.

The war is between HD and Blu-ray, not between consumers. Either way we as consumers are getting great quality media, if HD wins, then so be it, i'll sell off my blu-ray and convert to HD. If not, then Im golden with my Bluray right now.

 

[user 1190]

Dont understand why it has to be win or lose and taking sides.

Because thats what we do here take sides. Have you not figured that out. I don't think either side will win for a long time maybe never. I have a HD player so I am partial to that but thats the only reason, if I had a Blu-Ray player or a PS3 I would lean the other way.

 

[nash]

Because thats what we do here take sides. Have you not figured that out. I don't think either side will win for a long time maybe never. I have a HD player so I am partial to that but thats the only reason, if I had a Blu-Ray player or a PS3 I would lean the other way.

well i'd still buy you a beer and shoot the sh*t. you damn HD lover

 

[Seth Gecko]

Wow i didn't even know there was a thread on this topic.

https://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=360388&ssid=365&sid=ENV

despite that link i bet reg. DVD's are still flowing plenty in 3 years.

 

[Serpentor]

Blu ray will not replace DVD's in 3 years if they really think its possible they are nuts. Its hard to get the consumer to change format so quickly it took DVD's along time to replace VHS completley. In fact its only been within the past 5 years or so that the shift to DVD's happened. So to have the market suddently shift to a new format so quickly comapred to how long VHS was around is unlikley.

 

[gdb]

The winner will be whoever gets the most players in people's homes. Sony had a great plan of sneaking the players into the homes of PS3 owners and, I think, HP owners were supposed to get them. This is what worked with DVD's in Jappan (everyone wanted the Matrix on DVD and everyone already had a DVD player because they already had a PS2) and what worked for Windows in the 80s.

The porn issue is a dead issue because porn isn't going BluRay/HD DVD, it's going HD DVR/download. And it'll be BluRay/HD DVD as soon as computers have BluRay/HD DVD burners.

But, IMO, if every computer being sold in 3 years comes with a BluRay player and if every serious gamer has to have a PS3, then DVDs will be as rare as BluRay/HD DVDs are today. But that's a couple of big ifs.

 

[Kabukiman]

I can wait for the dust to settle and for prices to come down. My upconverting DVD player is doing the job nicely. Some movies look better than those broadcast on TNT HD and other HD movie channels.

Before I bought my new DVD player, I researched the crap out of upconverting and found there are many players that just don't do that great of a job, so upconverting kinda gets a bad rep. Also, some people don't realize virtually all upconverting players only upconvert via HDMI, if you have it hooked up via component, it won't upconvert without a hack.