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post #61 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:56pm
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Originally Posted by i70x7 View Post

My biggest problem with this, is that if it does kill HD-DVD, the prices for players and movies could start to rise again.

Getting rid of competition is almost never a good thing.

Not necessarily. Especially if Universal and Paramount start rethinking things too. This just means that if HD DVD is dead then BD has one giant new opponent and that is DVD. It is time for a full scale assault on bringing in more new owners and moving past DVD.

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post #62 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:56pm
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Originally Posted by vurbano View Post

Giving away discs is not "selling"

They where sold for 1/2 price in most cases.
I guess the HD DVD buy 3 and get 2 free this week was a little late or perhaps a firesale to liqudate assets.
post #63 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:56pm
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Originally Posted by keenan View Post

Nothing at the TW press release site...could be the site hasn't been updated...

http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom
Time Warner - Newsroom

Considering it's leaked info, I'm not surprised. Press releases are for official announcements.
post #64 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:56pm
Wow.

I expected this to happen eventually but not for a while. Guess they wanted to be able to talk about it at CES.
post #65 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:56pm
And I was so close to buying an XA2.

No need now!

Who wants to buy some gently used HD DVDs?

I can hear ebay filling up with red cases as we speak.
post #66 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:56pm
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Originally Posted by elwood49 View Post

Even though I have a BR player, I hate this news. This pretty much spells the end of BR BOGO's for a LONG time.

Now we all get to pay $25 for new releases.

And watch the stand alone players go back up in price.
post #67 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:57pm
DVD owns all
post #68 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:57pm
I have to be honest. I've been a big backer of the HD-DVD format, but I've started buying WB titles almost exclusively on Blu-ray since last fall and if they had to pick one format to back, I'm glad they went with Blu-ray.

This hopefully means:

1) No more combos.
2) Increased lossless audio support.
3) IME support now that Profile 1.1 is out.
post #69 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:58pm
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Originally Posted by RScottyL View Post

Why?

Blu-Ray has been consistently outselling HD-DVD by an average of 65% - 35%!

Why would they want to lose money and go exclusively with HD-DVD???

*goes to put in Blu-ray copy of The Matrix*
Oh wait...

*reaches for Blu-ray Batman Begins instead*
Oh wait again...
post #70 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:58pm
Time to add Blu Ray to my shopping list, hopefully a decent 1.1 or 2.0 standalone player for under $200 is in the works by xmas time.
post #71 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:58pm
Player prices are going to go back up. You won't beable to find a decent player for under $300. Bad news for the consumer. Also, no more BOGO sales for Blu.

and yes, blu has won.
post #72 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:59pm
Dammit. I just sold my PS3, even. However, I also just sold my 360 HD DVD drive, too.
post #73 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:59pm
Wow...the majority of the movies are Blu-Ray exclusive now...70% of the market. Ouch...

Thank goodness I have 10 to 1 ratio of Blu-Ray. I'll still keep my HD-DVd player though...still junk metal before and after LOL.
post #74 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:59pm
I predict that this thread will be 100 pages long by later tonight!
post #75 of 4258
1/4/08 at 12:59pm
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Originally Posted by theforce8686 View Post

Not necessarily. Especially if Universal and Paramount start rethinking things too. This just means that if HD DVD is dead then BD has one giant new opponent and that is DVD. It is time for a full scale assault on bringing in more new owners and moving past DVD.

That's true. It's time to move dvd aside as yesterdays technology.
post #76 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:01pm
You know what, if this will stop the war and we can all embrace one format, then this is great! It is sad to see one format lose but in the end all of us will benefit from one hd format. I support this and and hope the end is near, and yes I have supported both hddvd and bd. This is a good move in my opinion.
post #77 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:01pm
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Originally Posted by mpalmieri1203 View Post

THat's for sure. I have both formats with no preference toward either side. I am just glad that this thing will finally come to an end.

I'm with you. while my collection highly favors Blu Ray, I just want something standardized.
post #78 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:01pm
i wonder what happens if microsoft does indeed release a built in hd-dvd player
post #79 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:01pm
AWESOME news. Congrats Blu-ray.
post #80 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:01pm
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Originally Posted by TimV View Post

WOW. This is a pretty big deal. If anything, I would have expected them to go with HD DVD. No matter, as I'm neutral.

Funny most people would have said the opposite. If WB want the war to end in order to grow the overall HD market (and they now say that's what they want) the smart thing to do would be to back Blu-ray. Backing HD DVD exclusively would just make this more of a stalemate, the last thing we need.

I just hope that Universal (and others) see sense now if their contracts allow it.

What surprises me, somewhat, is that WB was originally HD DVD exclusive and for most of their neutral phase treated BD pretty poorly with the fairly lame excuses for not releasing certain titles.
post #81 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:01pm
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Originally Posted by Hipnotiq View Post

This is bad news for both formats.

A monopoly is not good any way you look at it. I wish the price war continued for another couple of years until discs were $10 each and players were sub $50.

Well get closer to this as soon as theres 1 format. Constant back and forth BOGO are great for those of us that pick up plenty of discs, but it's lead to nothing more than a stalemate.

A decisive switch to one format makes things easier on everyone. DVD has done fine without another format competing against it.
post #82 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:01pm
Thread Starter 
I apologize for not having a link. I just wanted to get the news out as fast as possible. The article did come from Bloomberg News. The news is pretty widespread now so I think you can find it pretty easily.
post #83 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:02pm
DVD wins.
post #84 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:02pm
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Originally Posted by merv43 View Post

You know what, if this will stop the war and we can all embrace one format, then this is great! It is sad to see one format lose but in the end all of us will benefit from one hd format. I support this and and hope the end is near, and yes I have supported both hddvd and bd. This is a good move in my opinion.

now that I think about...we can say goodbye to all those BOGO deals that we have been enjoying recently. hmmm...maybe that is a good thing?
post #85 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:02pm
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Originally Posted by Adam_ME View Post

I have to be honest. I've been a big backer of the HD-DVD format, but I've started buying WB titles almost exclusively on Blu-ray since last fall and if they had to pick one format to back, I'm glad they went with Blu-ray.

This hopefully means:

1) No more combos.
2) Increased lossless audio support.
3) IME support now that Profile 1.1 is out.

Don't forget:
4) No standards for all hardware to include ethernet or the ability to decode advanced audio codecs
5) Likely no web-enabled features of substance for a long time to come, if ever, thanks to 2.0 being optional and a long way off

Yeah! Blu-ray is gonna be so awesome!!!1
post #86 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:04pm
I remember when AVS had the the One Format Only logo up top re DVD.

Now with the Warner announcement at

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/s...75&newsLang=en

we can now have one HDM format and enjoy HDM ... and buy AV goodies from AVS for HDM.

This is indeed a good day for HDM.
post #87 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:04pm
Warner said it would continue releasing in the HD DVD format until the end of May, although those releases would follow the standard DVD and Blu-ray releases.

Looks like I'm shopping for a 2.0 Blu player now.

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssC...32340820080104
post #88 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:04pm
If Blu Ray does end up winning, don't expect Sony not to screw its consumers like it has done over and over again. This is a sad day in HDM but I'm not calling it quits on HD DVD yet.
post #89 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:04pm
Glad I bought Blu Ray.

I had a moment of doubt when I bought a PS3 in Nov 06.

-Brian
post #90 of 4258
1/4/08 at 1:04pm
cnbc i think just said microsofts embedded hd-dvd player... whats that supposed to mean
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