Truth about the Format Wars: HDDVD vs. BluRay

[BigB]

Interesting article alleging how it all went down prior to CES.


Truth about the Format Wars: Gizmodo

 

[kickniteasy]

I'm really curious to see how this all plays out....I like my dad's response to it all though. "I'll start paying attention to the format wars when the dvd's stop being twice as much as what I've got now."

 

[Notorious]

Good for me. I bought blu-ray just because of the higher quality. Glad it won.

 

[greasemonkey524]

HELLO BluRay Porn!

 

[bucksatan]

HELLO BluRay Porn!

Do you really want to see porn in high def? You might think that you do at the moment, but watch a couple full of butt pimples, ingrown hairs and visible plastic surgery scars and you will change your mind. Porn is all about fantasy, not the ugly, close up truth in super fine detail.

 

[evilmonkeyMSP]

lol I always thought the same thing anytime anyone ever said "what ever format porn chooses, that will be the winner"

Do you really want to see porn in high def? You might think that you do at the moment, but watch a couple full of butt pimples, ingrown hairs and visible plastic surgery scars and you will change your mind. Porn is all about fantasy, not the ugly, close up truth in super fine detail.

 

[sanblaster]

Can anyone tell me if you can watch a regular dvd on a blu-ray player and/or (ps3)?

 

[genericuser]

I would imagine you could.

 

[MP3Performance]

Can anyone tell me if you can watch a regular dvd on a blu-ray player and/or (ps3)?

My PS3 works with blu-ray, DVD, and CD. Not sure about other blu-ray players.

 

[Mr. 4500 RPM]

subbing to read after i take care of some things.

 

[ThrillRide]

Can anyone tell me if you can watch a regular dvd on a blu-ray player and/or (ps3)?

PS3 for sure. And it does a nice job upscalling regular dvd. I'm thinking most blu-ray players are the same.

Will be interesting to see what xbox does when HD DVD dies. Blu-ray has 93% market share already. Not sure why paramount and universal are fighting it. BD is better, lets move on.

 

[Notorious]

You can. On most (including the PS3) it'll upconvert too. Makes the DVD look better.

Can anyone tell me if you can watch a regular dvd on a blu-ray player and/or (ps3)?

 

[SuperStretch18]

PS3 for sure. And it does a nice job upscalling regular dvd. I'm thinking most blu-ray players are the same.

Will be interesting to see what xbox does when HD DVD dies. Blu-ray has 93% market share already. Not sure why paramount and universal are fighting it. BD is better, lets move on.

I think Xbox actually took a good position on the format war and didn't build HD-DVD into the 360 itself. Now the only people impacted are the one's who made the bad decision to shell-out for the drive! (yupnope) Once they release an add-on blu-ray drive, you know the war is officially over...

As a side note, I just saw my first HD-DVD commercial last night. They must be trying a last ditch effort to save the format...

 

[oliumzen]

it'll be a sad day when bluray wins....i have a xbox 360 HDDVD player....i wasn't gonna bother with bluray til i bought a ps3.....

 

[ZoomZoomH]

go blu-ray!

 

[sanblaster]

You can. On most (including the PS3) it'll upconvert too. Makes the DVD look better.

Thanks guys for the input.

 

[JCell]

sucks, i've had transformers in hd in my room for months, i've been saving to get the HD player but always had something else come up

booo

 

[sanblaster]

it'll be a sad day when bluray wins....i have a xbox 360 HDDVD player....i wasn't gonna bother with bluray til i bought a ps3.....

Dude you gotta resize your sig.

 

[Mr. 4500 RPM]

I guess Betamax wins this round *shakes fist*

 

[greasemonkey524]

I've got the Sony BDP-S300 BluRay and it plays regular dvd's just fine. I would like to see a porn on it once just to see how bad some of the girls flaws are but right now I'm not paying $50 for one. They only have a few out right now anyway. To be honest with you I thought about getting the HD DVD because I like their movie selection better at the moment. It looks like things might be changing though.