Comments on: Universal, Paramount prepared to drop HD DVD support

By: zeda.Zakuya

zeda.Zakuya — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:38:21 +0000

i had a feeling from the beginning blu-ray had a better shot even without knowing some of the facts .it just has something new to it unlike hd-dvd is just a dvd on steroids.don’t get me wrong here i love hd-dvd also coz my brother has hd-dvd and the quality is amazing.but seeing so many blu-ray players ou there mostly ps3 and so many studio backing hd-dvd wil not have a long life call it the new betamax.now 6 studios backing bd and 2 hd-dvd man c’mon don’t lie to yourselfs you know it’s over.and for people who think prices will go high again for blu-ray ehhhhhhhh wrong i just saw an 270 $ blu-ray stand alone player. blu-ray kicks ass that’s must have hurt huh you hd-dvd fanboys

By: Marc M.

Marc M. — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:14:13 +0000

Wait why do comments need moderation? lol

By: Marc M.

Marc M. — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:13:30 +0000

Yes, I’ve noticed that as well, but doesn’t anyone else realize that competition makes for lower prices on both ends? If HD DVD is out of the game Sony will jack up bluray prices SKY HIGH because there will be no one else to compete with. Bluray players are already 2-3 times more expensive as HD DVD I don’t understand this move. I thought for SURE HD DVD would win, I don’t know anybody with a standalone bluray player but I know plenty of them with standalone HD DVD players, this is ridiculous,and actualy upsets me. I think HD DVD is the superior technology, I don’t care if bluray can hold more the interface on HD DVD movies is FAR FAR superior and much easy to use #$$# %^^ ##$@# that was me cussing a lot.

By: Tereasa

Tereasa — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:32:44 +0000

Anyone else watch the Universal HD channel? An interesting trend I’ve noticed the past few weeks was the lack of HD-DVD commercials. It used to be flooded with Toshiba and HD-DVD ads… but now those are scaled way back and there are Blu-Ray commercials. My estimate is that the Blu-Ray commercials get shown twice as often. I found it interesting that an HD-DVD studio channel would be promoting Blu-Ray (and yes, I understand that Sony could just buy ad time, but one would think there would be some thing in the contract between Tosiba and Universal to prohibit that?).

By: darthbith

darthbith — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:09:02 +0000

Hmmm….
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080111-universal-paramount-deny-move-to-blu-ray-imminent.html

By: AW

AW — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:20:29 +0000

Its not done yet.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:06:07 +0000

This is awesome