02-18-2008
|
#1
|
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Cottage Grove
Drives: Silver '02 IS300, Blue '06 Suzuki SV1000
Posts: 5,293
|
HD DVD is dead!
Looks like after Wal Mart stopped carrying them, and Best Buy shoved them in the corner, Toshiba gave up.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/16/t...d-dvd-already/
__________________
'02 Lexus IS300
'06 Suzuki SV1000: Back on the road and ripping hard as ever!
|
|
|
|
02-18-2008
|
#2
|
|
Banned
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Minnesota
Drives: down the middle of the fairway bitches!
Posts: 1,306
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
Haha I knew Blue Ray would win. Just like the VCR tape won.
Great news to all PS3 owners. Does this mean we can expect to see all titles on blue ray?
|
|
|
|
|
02-18-2008
|
#3
|
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Apple Valley
Posts: 265
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
Well that blows! I just got the HD DVD player for my 360 not too long ago  |
|
|
|
|
02-18-2008
|
#4
|
|
A.E.K.Δ.B
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
wow.... i was just about to purchase the hddvd drive for my box... good thing.... sorry 2.Slow...... you should try returning it asap  |
|
|
|
|
02-18-2008
|
#5
|
|
A.E.K.Δ.B
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
wow.... i was just about to purchase the hddvd drive for my box... good thing.... sorry 2.Slow...... you should try returning it asap |
|
|
|
|
02-18-2008
|
#6
|
|
R U DTF bro?
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Oak Point, TX
Drives: C8 Stingray Z51
Posts: 20,620
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
Quote:
Originally Posted by DSM_420
Haha I knew Blue Ray would win. Just like the VCR tape won.
|
Except Sony lost that battle with the Beta, and I think you mean VHS tape  |
|
|
|
|
02-18-2008
|
#7
|
|
Banned
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Minnesota
Drives: down the middle of the fairway bitches!
Posts: 1,306
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kracka
Except Sony lost that battle with the Beta, and I think you mean VHS tape |
Yes lol, I knew that didn't sound right, shows how long ago I used one.
But what is the battle with the beta? |
|
|
|
|
02-18-2008
|
#8
|
|
R U DTF bro?
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Oak Point, TX
Drives: C8 Stingray Z51
Posts: 20,620
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
Sony brought the Beta to battle against JVC's VHS...and lost. Acually, the Beta was released a year previous to VHS so technically the VHS was brought to battle against the Beta.
|
|
|
|
|
02-18-2008
|
#9
|
|
Banned
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Minnesota
Drives: down the middle of the fairway bitches!
Posts: 1,306
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
I see, I knew it was JVC against someone, didn't know it was Sony though. Can we expect all titles to be in Blue Ray now?
|
|
|
|
|
02-19-2008
|
#10
|
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Apple Valley
Posts: 265
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
Quote:
Originally Posted by crazy_skier
wow.... i was just about to purchase the hddvd drive for my box... good thing.... sorry 2.Slow...... you should try returning it asap |
I got it around x-mas though, so I don't think I'll be able to return it Damn you technology!! |
|
|
|
|
02-19-2008
|
#11
|
 Sonic Champion!
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Litchfield
Drives: VA STI
Posts: 1,793
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
Beta was a superior technology compared to VHS, but consumers wanted the cheaper costing VHS tapes instead.
|
|
|
|
|
02-19-2008
|
#12
|
|
immune from paybans
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: West Des Moines
Drives: poorly
Posts: 4,358
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
Beta mostly failed because JVC licenced their technology to other manufacturers and Sony decided to keep it proprietary if I remember correctly. Beta was way higher quality than VHS, just didn't get the market share and apparently people didn't have the high quality hype like now.
|
|
|
|
|
02-19-2008
|
#13
|
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 1,647
|
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
|
|
|
|
|
02-19-2008
|
#14
|
|
4G63 X 2 = 8G63
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Minnetonka
Drives: 06 EVO, 92 TSi AWD
Posts: 303
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
I'm glad that HD-DVD is dead, Blu Ray single layer holds almost as much as HD-DVD dual layer.
HD-DVD single is 15 GB, dual is 30 GB
Blu Ray single is 25 GB, dual is 50 GB.
|
|
|
|
|
02-19-2008
|
#15
|
|
formerly ecoli
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: On the dyno
Posts: 4,892
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
Beta's main downfall was that the tapes didn't have nearly as long of a record time.
|
|
|
|
|
02-19-2008
|
#16
|
Tournaments Won: 3
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Maple Grove, MN
Drives: Lancer and Durango
Posts: 7,017
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
looks like my toshiba HDDVD player was a waste. at least i only got it for 100 bucks with 3 HDDVDs. I had both formats covered with the PS3, oh well maybe ill just use the Toshiba as a regular dvd player, it upconverts my old dvds. woot.
__________________
Scientific theories are the most reliable, rigorous, and comprehensive form of scientific knowledge. This is significantly different from the common usage of the word "theory", which implies that something is a conjecture, hypothesis, or guess.
|
|
|
|
|
02-19-2008
|
#17
|
|
insert witty title here
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: South Saint Paul, MN
Drives: VW Gti
Posts: 835
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
I'm glad about all of this, Reminds me of when I was up at Best Buy looking for a new Blu Ray movies and one of the salesman was standing next to me talking to a co worker basically talking shit about Blu Ray and how "HD-DVD is where its at". I was so pissed about that, Totally trash talking the product I was looking at (for a very long time) I just thought it was very unprofessional. Opinions are like assholes, Everyone has to have one.
|
|
|
|
|
02-19-2008
|
#18
|
|
The Newbie
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Stilly
Posts: 431
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
I bought HD DVD... but i'm thinking the remaining stock out there in stores will now price drop huge, so i'm hoping to pick some stuff up cheap.
My TV isn't 1080p anyway so nothing to lose by just making a big collection out of the movies I think are worthy of buying.
__________________
2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT
Last edited by X Factor; 02-19-2008 at 07:41 PM..
|
|
|
|
|
02-19-2008
|
#19
|
|
James Bond... James Bond
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Roseville, MN
Drives: 95 Jeep
Posts: 303
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
I thought this was an interesting pic:
I would think the blu-ray disk would be more prone to data degradation over time than the standard dvd, but I really don't know anything about it.
__________________
-David C.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by bouncer07
If you know Mary Clifford, Ph,.D. Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in St. Cloud State University. Then your well aware of who she is.
|
|
|
|
|
|
02-19-2008
|
#20
|
|
R U DTF bro?
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Oak Point, TX
Drives: C8 Stingray Z51
Posts: 20,620
|
Re: HD DVD is dead!
What is that a pic of and what is it showing me?
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
Beer Dude 2 Champion!
Linear Mode
