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See topic. I love/own both formats. Am wondering what should we expect regarding the war and HD media over the next year or 400 days or so. Try to keep it realistic but then again opinions, predictions, and speculation are fine. Just say what you honestly think.
Off the top of my head, I'd have to say that:
-No other companies alter their allegiances and that for the most part HD DVD still receives a very significant chunk of good exclusives between now and the end of next Jan.
-However, the amount of releases in general to HD DVD will be clearly less than in '07 with the HD DVD exclusive studios deciding to slow down a bit
-Warner will not rush to re-release many of their currently HD DVD exclusive titles on BD, with the exception of Batman Begins and one or two others. They will instead focus on new releases, making them loaded with IME/etc and able to jive with profile 1.1.
-We still won't have even a semi-affordable dual-format player that operates the way everyone would want it to (fast/smooth/well) by this time next year
-Q1 '09 is the period where we finally start to see all companies on both sides aggressively trying to move things to a unified BD format for good
-It will then take at least another year from there to see formerly HD DVD exclusives start to be re-issued on BD as the newly converted studios will likely focus on new releases. And in fact, we may never see such titles get a BD re-release - and/or at least not with the same exact specs and features that we would have wanted to see ported from the HD DVD version.
~Does this sound about right? Or what do you think?
Off the top of my head, I'd have to say that:
-No other companies alter their allegiances and that for the most part HD DVD still receives a very significant chunk of good exclusives between now and the end of next Jan.
-However, the amount of releases in general to HD DVD will be clearly less than in '07 with the HD DVD exclusive studios deciding to slow down a bit
-Warner will not rush to re-release many of their currently HD DVD exclusive titles on BD, with the exception of Batman Begins and one or two others. They will instead focus on new releases, making them loaded with IME/etc and able to jive with profile 1.1.
-We still won't have even a semi-affordable dual-format player that operates the way everyone would want it to (fast/smooth/well) by this time next year
-Q1 '09 is the period where we finally start to see all companies on both sides aggressively trying to move things to a unified BD format for good
-It will then take at least another year from there to see formerly HD DVD exclusives start to be re-issued on BD as the newly converted studios will likely focus on new releases. And in fact, we may never see such titles get a BD re-release - and/or at least not with the same exact specs and features that we would have wanted to see ported from the HD DVD version.
~Does this sound about right? Or what do you think?