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Re: HD DVD is dead!
Yeah, it sucks. I bought an HD-DVD player over a year ago. I love it. I have about 10 movies and it does a great job of upconverting regular DVDs.
I'm been following this battle for a while now. A few months ago Warner Brothers went exclusive to Blue Ray. HD-DVD sales started to slip around that time. Then last week Netflix said it was stopping HD-DVD rentals and Best Buy said they were going to promote Bluray only. That was the beginning of the end. Then Wal-Mart said they were going to stop carrying HD-DVDs at the end of last week.
Sony managed to get enough of the studios to support Bluray only. That is what really killed HD-DVD. Sony sold them on the better piracy protection of Bluray (which is debatable whether it really exists)
The two formats both provide great picture quality. One doesn't outshine the other in that respect. HD-DVD just did it cheaper. Oh well, I'll wait until Bluray players get cheaper before I'm gonna get one.
- Curt
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