Is Blu-ray taking the cake in new releases?? - Page 2

Originally Posted by TomsHT

Thats bull... they were releasing quality movies previously at a rate of 3 times what there announcing now if anything progress should now have them releasing more then before

Originally Posted by dandaroy

Just bought a Toshiba HD-A2 and been stunned by the PQ on HD-DVD. However, I am a bit frustrated on the availability of new releases on HD-DVD. I have Netflix and seems like 90% of the new releases are coming out in Blu-ray only!!@%#! What gives? Did I choose a wrong format?

Originally Posted by SimpleTheater

Hanging around isn't going to save HD-DVD.

Originally Posted by alluringreality

After four years of HD DVD outselling Blu-ray stand-alone players, do you really think Blu-ray would be outselling HD DVD on movies and that none of those exclusive studios would change?

Originally Posted by alluringreality

My view is real simple. HD DVD has a huge advantage on price.

Originally Posted by thalazy

What is going to be most important is price Most could care less if Blu Ray has 1 million titles if they cannot afford the dang thing. With HD DVD announcing Chinese made players being released this year for possibly under $300 it gives a huge advantage to those not willing to buy a game console to play HD movies and other's who don't want to take out a second mortgage to buy a standalone. With cheaper and cheaper players flooding the market for HD DVD we will see a bigger instillation base and more and more HD DVD supporters, which could result in more and more studio's going neutral. HD DVD has been delivering the goods when it comes to pq and aq and giving us new interactive content that we just cant get with dvd and to me they have shown what HD movies are capable of and to me the future looks bright.

Originally Posted by SimpleTheater

You misunderstand what I meant by "hanging around". The term implies that HD-DVD will be in the ball park of Blu-Ray and if HD-DVD is merely closely behind or slightly ahead in total software sales, HD-DVD is a dead format. They need to open up a commanding lead and they need to do it before 2007 is over.

I disagree. Entrance into BluRay is $499 - Toshiba needs to get players into the $299 range by November at the latest.

Originally Posted by alluringreality

As long as HD DVD maintains a significantly lower retail player price, common sense says that they will be the choice for people deciding to buy into a HD format.

Originally Posted by Fettastic

The samsung is already 1/2 the price it was 6 months ago. You don't think the other players will drop in price as well?

Originally Posted by thalazy

I have only seen the Samsuing for $799.99 which is $200 off have yet to see a $500 standalone Blu Ray player(brand new in a store). $200 off is good but still not quite $500 which HD DVD player can be had for. Sure prices for Blu Ray players are going down and will continue to do so, but so will HD DVD players and may always been slightly lower until they hit the $100 price mark many years down the line.

Originally Posted by alpha21

Where's that 360 add on we've been hearing so much about, hope that's out by Nov 2007 *extreme sarcasm*

Originally Posted by Fettastic

Not according to this:

Originally Posted by Fettastic

$599
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-BD-P10...&s=electronics

It's gone up a bit, it was $519 a week or two ago.

$499.94 refurbished from Samsung.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...105396-5202220

Originally Posted by kits

I got HD-DVD Player about 2-weeks back and happened to get PS3 yesterday as most new releases are coming on PS3. I wanted to wait on my Blu-Ray player purchase till Casino Royale release date but what the heck! I gave up when I saw a PS3 in stock FINALLY!

If you love HD and want to enjoy it fully you have but only one choice. Get both formats! Who cares who wins the war!

It doesn't make sense to hate one format and love another. The only reason to stick with one format is if one can't afford to buy players from both format. In that case, check which format content is widely available to buy/rent and decide.

Sooner or later one will be hooked to HD and will surely give into the other format as well.

Originally Posted by SimpleTheater

$200 for HD-DVD add on + $299 for XBox 360 = $499. Same price as a PS3.

Originally Posted by tbass2k

I am a strong supporter of HD-DVD and had a player the day the thing came out...BUT, I have to admit that blu-ray is dishin out the releases and advertising for them as well. I haven't seen near as many HD-DVD commercials as I have blu-ray; the slow HD-DVD releases are killing me. As soon as I get my money back from Uncle Sam, I am purchasing a PS3, simply because I am a gamer(even though the PS3 is seriously lacking right now) and need to have the option of watching any HD movie that is released.

This format war is stupid. If say the Matrix trilogy, Jurrasic Park set, LOTR:trilogy, or Gladiator were released on HD-DVD today, this format war would take a big turn in favor of HD-DVD, and actually sell a lot more players, but they really haven't given us anything big besides Batman(which blu-ray will have soon) and King Kong in the past 3 months, right? I'm all about quality and quantity, why can't we have both? Blu-ray is really lookin good to me right now, just look at all the releases they are starting to get each tuesday, ridiculous.

Originally Posted by thalazy

I have only seen the Samsuing for $799.99 which is $200 off have yet to see a $500 standalone Blu Ray player(brand new in a store). $200 off is good but still not quite $500 which HD DVD player can be had for. Sure prices for Blu Ray players are going down and will continue to do so, but so will HD DVD players and may always been slightly lower until they hit the $100 price mark many years down the line.

Originally Posted by SimpleTheater

HD-DVD is merely closely behind or slightly ahead in total software sales

Entrance into BluRay is $499 - Toshiba needs to get players into the $299 range by November at the latest.

Originally Posted by wnorris

Buying both formats makes no sense unless you have money coming out your who-ha. I own a HD-DVD player and about 20 discs now. There are at least 20 more HD-DVD's I'd like to own, and probably more than that.

It makes no sense to say, "go dual format", unless a person has already bought all the films in one format that they desire. In my case, I could spend at least $525 to get a BD player and ONE BD movie that I want, or I could buy at least 21 HD-DVD films that I still want.

Again, unless you have so much money that you can buy anything you want, whenever you want, it makes no sense to go dual format.

Originally Posted by Sisko197

Shhhhh. Last year it was, "quantity," and "content is king," so "that's why HD DVD's gonna win!" Now, when quantity and content isn't there, the argument shifts to, "HD DVD doesn't need lots of titles in lots of genres to win, it just needs a few great titles!"

Because the argument isn't about the reason, but about the bias. Anyone with sense would want more titles on their format. And in fact, most of these individuals do want more titles, they just don't want to be beholden to Sony.

The truth is the only exclusives worth caring about are those from Universal (as the rest will come to Blu-ray too) and those that Universal's announced so far aren't exactly King Kong-level.

Even King Kong wasn't all that great.

Unless Universal pops out a Back to the Future or three on HD DVD, BD's going to win the content war this year. It's funny how quickly the tide has turned, but it's obvious that it really was the PS3 that turned it. The studios waited for the PS3, the PS3 came, Blu-ray sales picked up, and titles began to flood out the floodgates. Quality had improved and titles truly taking advantage of the format's advantages are beginning to appear.

Unless Toshiba and Microsoft can convince someone neutral to go exclusively HD DVD, I think the war's over in a year. Maybe a little more. With the sheer title advantage in Blu-ray's favor, even the consumers will make their choice based on the size of the blue section versus the red when the blue is three times as big as the red. When aisle space comes a premium, which format will Best Buy prefer? The one with the large catalogue or keeping two, one that has the large catalogue and one that doesn't? Best Buy will want the one that is bigger.

I'll still play my HD DVD's and hopefully on a Toshiba HD-A3 if they can manage to produce a player that has the speed of a PS3 with the reliability of a PS3. Oh, and with the silence of a PS3. And the codec support, too. And the price.

Or Microsoft could release a 360 with HDMI support (including audio) that has the superior playback of the add-on with HDMI audio (TrueHD) support of a genuine HD DVD player. Either/or.

Originally Posted by mrsmith

See Universal's 100-plus 2007 HD-DVD release schedule as part of a discussion with one of their execs in hometheaterforum earlier this month.

He also stated that Universal is sticking with HD-DVD only.

Enjoy!

Milt R. Smith
mrsmith2002@yahoo.com

Originally Posted by mrsmith

See Universal's 100-plus 2007 HD-DVD release schedule as part of a discussion with one of their execs in hometheaterforum earlier this month.

He also stated that Universal is sticking with HD-DVD only.

Enjoy!

Milt R. Smith
mrsmith2002@yahoo.com

Originally Posted by SimpleTheater

You misunderstand what I meant by "hanging around". The term implies that HD-DVD will be in the ball park of Blu-Ray and if HD-DVD is merely closely behind or slightly ahead in total software sales, HD-DVD is a dead format. They need to open up a commanding lead and they need to do it before 2007 is over.

I disagree. Entrance into BluRay is $499 - Toshiba needs to get players into the $299 range by November at the latest.

Originally Posted by thalazy

Good prices for Samsung but I wonder how many of those are online only? We all know they get you with the shipping.

Originally Posted by wnorris

Buying both formats makes no sense unless you have money coming out your who-ha. I own a HD-DVD player and about 20 discs now. There are at least 20 more HD-DVD's I'd like to own, and probably more than that.

It makes no sense to say, "go dual format", unless a person has already bought all the films in one format that they desire. In my case, I could spend at least $525 to get a BD player and ONE BD movie that I want, or I could buy at least 21 HD-DVD films that I still want.

Again, unless you have so much money that you can buy anything you want, whenever you want, it makes no sense to go dual format.

Originally Posted by RobDSM

I think the PS3 is only relevant at this stage of the game, when AV geeks like us are actively researching which players off the best bang for the buck. Those PS3-For-Watching-Movies purchases will surely drop off very soon.

Then we enter the next stage when almost all of us have players, but the regular guys start looking. Some of them may have heard that the PS3 game console plays Blu-ray very well, but I highly doubt most people would even bother looking at anything but a standalone. My father would NEVER buy a video game system to play movies! LOL! I am pretty sure he is not the only J6P who feels this way.

In the long run, it will be the cheap standalones that determine the result. A $299 HD DVD player is going to be far more effective than anything Blu-ray will have to offer.

Originally Posted by SimpleTheater

$200 for HD-DVD add on + $299 for XBox 360 = $499. Same price as a PS3.