Blu Ray vs. HD-DVD

[Naethyn]

Get widescreen lcd yo.... panscan sucks!

[Tossica]

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.

[Tossica]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Tossica]

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]

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]

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

[Agrajag]

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.

[Tossica]

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]

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]

Who the fuck uses DVDs for porn?

[Tossica]

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]

Then you burn them yourself like any real nerd should.

Your quip was wasted.

[Jay]

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]

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

[Tikker]

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

[Tossica]

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]

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

[Tossica]

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]

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

[Lyion]

Game, Set, Match! Well played, Toshiba!

Netflix is going Blu-ray only, too.

[Tossica]

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

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