Blue-Ray or HD DVD

[RoboDad]

Last time I check 5 years is good amount a time and to say totally eclipsed if kinda far fetched, most major rental places were still renting VHS much more then DVD in the early 2000s and sales were pretty much equal. Plus to go from VHS to DVD you didn't need a new TV to see the difference, but BR on a non HDTV is pointless so you have to factor in the fact that you have to get a whole lot of people to buy a new TV before even thinking about getting a BR player.

Oh yeah I just did a quick search and rentals were just about 50/50 in 2003 which is if I remember correct about 10 years after DVD was released.

Unfortunately, you do not remember correctly. In the United States, DVD was launched on March 25th, 1997 in seven limited markets. It was not released nationwide until August 26th of that year. Even in Japan, the format was only soft-launched in late 1996, and was not pushed much until 1997, since there were not many content providers yet in that country.

And the industry-accepted definition of when DVD eclipsed VHS was the year that DVD player sales significantly passed VCR sales, which was 2001 (less than 5 years after DVD's launch). Within two years of that time, virtually all retail space for VHS was gone.

 

[Batty]

Some Star Trek news:

https://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Star-Trek-Season-2-HD-DVD-Cancelled/9018

 

[SSC_Nerd]

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1003

I can't get on highdefdigest.com right now maybe due to high traffic?


IS IT TRUE!??!?!!

Looks like the war is over!

 

[SSC_Nerd]

https://www.highdefdigest.com/news/...Conference,_HD_DVD_Announcement_Expected/1479

Some more info.

Announcement at midnight, Pacific time that is.

 

[JBElliott]

Well it's Blu Ray. Good thing too, the greater storage capacity of the Blu Ray discs made them the better choice.

 

[Marcus is not dead]

(1,4 Mo gif)

 

[jory REX]

thei si the best time to buy those hd dvd you've always wanted

 

[Reinhardt]

thei si the best time to buy those hd dvd you've always wanted

do you know places that have good sales?? i'm looking for them!

 

[Darth Loki]

do you know places that have good sales?? i'm looking for them!

DeepDiscountDVD had a good sale on HD movies and Amazon has some at 50% off right now.

 

[user 1190]

Really good deal at Comp USA.

HD-A3 HD-DVD player, plus 300 and Bourne Identity on HD-DVD plus the 5 free rebate all for 89.99 ot the HD-A30 for 119.99


https://www.compusa.com/application...p?EdpNo=3304908&sku=T24-9148&SRCCODE=COMEM011

 

[Sachiel]

https://www.3drealms.com/sounds/duke_bluray.wav

https://www.3drealms.com/news/2008/02/duke_on_hddvd.html

 

[user 1190]

Really good deal at Comp USA.

HD-A3 HD-DVD player, plus 300 and Bourne Identity on HD-DVD plus the 5 free rebate all for 89.99 ot the HD-A30 for 119.99


https://www.compusa.com/application...p?EdpNo=3304908&sku=T24-9148&SRCCODE=COMEM011

Buy.com has the A3 deal for 99.99 with free shipping.

I ended up getting one to use as my regular DVD player since I hate to use the 360 or PS3 as DVD player unless its HD-DVD or Blu-Ray, but now I don't have to use the 360. It was basically the same price as a good up converting DVD player and you get free movies.