Blu Ray vs. HD-DVD

Naethyn · Post by **Naethyn** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:22 pm

Get widescreen lcd yo.... panscan sucks!

Post by **Tossica** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:37 pm

Reynaldo wrote:Do these discs (HDDVD / BLURAY) fill up your screen on normal mode if you have a widescreen TV or do they STILL have the black bars at the top and bottom?

It depends on the aspect ratio of your TV and what aspect ratio the film was made in. Most films fill up a 16x9 format TV but some are still filmed in a "wider" aspect ratio and will still produce a slim border on the top and bottom of the screen to avoid cutting off any of the footage on either side.

Post by **Tossica** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:00 pm

Blow to HD-DVD when Blockbuster sided with Bu-Ray. Totally stupid decision on their part. It's WAY too early to choose sides like that. They should have waited another year or two for more titles to be released and for the market share of players to grab more than .0000001%. So far there are less than 2 million combined HD players sold including PS3's and Xbox360 add ons and there are less than 1000 combined HD movie titles available between both formats.

It will be another year before it becomes clear what format is outselling what.

runamonk · Post by **runamonk** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:11 pm

Doesn't matter at all to me. I'm not buying either one of them, I refuse to get into the whole vhs/beta/laserdisc battle with them. Besides, standard dvd is fine with me.

ClakarEQ · Post by **ClakarEQ** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:30 pm

Tossica wrote:Blow to HD-DVD when Blockbuster sided with Bu-Ray. Totally stupid decision on their part. It's WAY too early to choose sides like that. They should have waited another year or two for more titles to be released and for the market share of players to grab more than .0000001%. So far there are less than 2 million combined HD players sold including PS3's and Xbox360 add ons and there are less than 1000 combined HD movie titles available between both formats.

It will be another year before it becomes clear what format is outselling what.

Yeah I caught that article too. First thing I thought of was this thread and if I'd have to eat my words LOL.

Lots of time before it is all said and done though.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:33 pm

sony owns the rights to like 45% of all movies ever made

they have the catalogue to force blu-ray to mainstream with no one able to stop them

ClakarEQ · Post by **ClakarEQ** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:11 pm

I'm not sure of their presence back in the beta days as I didn't follow the shit like I do now, but it isn't like Sony doesn't screw up and screw up big.

BTW, welcome back tikker

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:18 pm

Tikker wrote:sony owns the rights to like 45% of all movies ever made

they have the catalogue to force blu-ray to mainstream with no one able to stop them

They have the catalogue to make a large amount of DVD's that very few people will buy. Again, they will try to force a proprietary format on people and they will end up barely breaking even if not losing money.

Beta, minidisk, memorystick, blu-ray... fuck Sony.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:19 pm

ClakarEQ wrote:I'm not sure of their presence back in the beta days as I didn't follow the shit like I do now, but it isn't like Sony doesn't screw up and screw up big.

they didn't own even 1/3 of the movie studios that they have now, back in the VCR warz days

Phlegm · Post by **Phlegm** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:28 pm

I don't think blockbuster decision is the death knell to HD-DVD since the porn industry is using the format exclusively.

Agrajag · Post by **Agrajag** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:29 pm

ClakarEQ wrote:General / unknowing consumer:

Blue ray - WTF is that

HD-DVD - Hmmm, DVD I know what that is, HD I know that too, I'll take an HD-DVD player please.

This is actually pretty acurate on how the average consumer thinks.

Post by **Tossica** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:26 pm

Blu-ray players will consist of almost exclusively PS3's and Sony PC's. HD-DVD or cross format players will be the standard for most other PC's and just about all other stand alone players.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:12 pm

Phlegm wrote:I don't think blockbuster decision is the death knell to HD-DVD since the porn industry is using the format exclusively.

with the porn on the net, I have a hard time believing that people will actually continue to buy porn on DVD for that much longer

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:27 pm

Who the fuck uses DVDs for porn?

Post by **Tossica** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:19 pm

Harrison wrote:Who the fuck uses DVDs for porn?

I actually watch porn with my girlfriend and DVD's are great. If you ever stumble upon a sexual partner, you might understand the concept.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:34 pm

Then you burn them yourself like any real nerd should.

Your quip was wasted.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:06 pm

Tossica wrote:
Harrison wrote:Who the fuck uses DVDs for porn?

I actually watch porn with my girlfriend and DVD's are great. If you ever stumble upon a sexual partner, you might understand the concept.

I make porn with your girlfriend. Oh snap!

ClakarEQ · Post by **ClakarEQ** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:51 pm

Didn't want to make a new thread so -bump-

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23145734/

By no means is that a KO punch to HD-DVD but it appears HD-DVD is on its deathbed.

Much h8 to Sony :badrazz:

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:17 pm

Tikker wrote:sony owns the rights to like 45% of all movies ever made

they have the catalogue to force blu-ray to mainstream with no one able to stop them

I win

Post by **Tossica** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:21 pm

Tikker wrote:
Tikker wrote:sony owns the rights to like 45% of all movies ever made

they have the catalogue to force blu-ray to mainstream with no one able to stop them

I win

Your statement is still 100% false as they don't own anywhere near 45% of all movies made and Blu-Ray is nowhere near mainstream yet. They hold a less than 1% market share at this point and time is running out for HD media to take hold.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:51 pm

Tossica wrote:
Tikker wrote:
Tikker wrote:sony owns the rights to like 45% of all movies ever made

they have the catalogue to force blu-ray to mainstream with no one able to stop them

I win

Your statement is still 100% false as they don't own anywhere near 45% of all movies made and Blu-Ray is nowhere near mainstream yet. They hold a less than 1% market share at this point and time is running out for HD media to take hold.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,696514,00.html

as of 2004, they owned ~40% of all movies ever made

they've bought studios since then

Post by **Tossica** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:03 pm

Tikker wrote:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,696514,00.html

as of 2004, they owned ~40% of all movies ever made

they've bought studios since then

We already had this fucking conversation months ago.

You were wrong then and are still wrong.

MGM dropped Sony as their distributer a year later because they didn't meet the requirements of the contract. Sony owns 20% of MGM but lost all rights to distribute their home media market to Fox.

Sony did for a short time have ACCESS to MGM's back catalog but never OWNED it and now don't even have access to it anymore as ALL home video distribution is done through Fox.

Do you comprehend now?

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:22 pm

sure, quickly explain how hd dvd has won the battle again

Post by **Lyion** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:26 pm

Game, Set, Match! Well played, Toshiba!

Netflix is going Blu-ray only, too.

Post by **Tossica** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:31 pm

Tikker wrote:sure, quickly explain how hd dvd has won the battle again

Is that your way of saying "You are right, I was wrong"?

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