Sony (Blu-Ray) Wins

[EcSTSatic]

As long as the players are downwards compatible with DVD I'm okay. I haven't even finished upgrading from VHS and Beta yet !!

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Originally Posted by EcSTSatic

As long as the players are downwards compatible with DVD I'm okay. I haven't even finished upgrading from VHS and Beta yet !!

I believe the word you're looking for is backwards

[hueterm]

Originally Posted by NOT ON MY WATCH

Trust me, last thing I wanted was for Sony to win this format war. I liked buying HD-DVDs that I could play in high def in my family room, and in standard def in other rooms, and in standard def on my CTS - and let my parents borrow for play on their standard def player at home - all from one disc (not all HD-DVD discs are like this, but many are).

The only Sony products I've ever purchased have been a miniDisc recorder (nice digital garage band recorder back in the day), the original Playstation and the PS3. Sony's Blu-Ray format is terrible for the consumer, with DRM software so "strong" that it throws many stand-alone Blu-Ray players for a loop (but doesn't give much trouble to PS3s for some reason), and region limitations - you can't buy Blu-Ray discs made for other regions of the world and play them on your USA Blu-Ray player. With HD-DVD, none of that was an issue.

I'm thinking of not buying any more Blu-Ray movies (actually most of the ones I have are gifts from people who didn't know which format I had - just that I had a high-def player - thanks, Sony marketing machine). For my particular TV - a Samsung 56" 1080i/720p purchased in December 2004, I'm thinking of eventually going with Apple TV 2.0 (high def) for movies.

That's the whole point -- so you can buy 2 copies of the same movie.

What a crock...

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Originally Posted by hueterm

That's the whole point -- so you can buy 2 copies of the same movie.

What a crock...

How is that a crock? It's so nice to have the dual format discs. I have an HDTV with an HD DVD player and I can watch my movie there or I can bring it to my gf's house and watch it on her DVD player on her SDTV.

[Cadillacboy]

Blue Ray really makes difference .May be only downside to that you need to have a blue ray player to play your blue ray disks .

[NOT ON MY WATCH]

Not sure I understand what you're saying, hueterm. Please explain further.

[gary88]

Originally Posted by Cadillacboy

Blue Ray really makes difference .May be only downside to that you need to have a blue ray player to play your blue ray disks .

lol, that's kind of how it works.

[Playdrv4me]

Well, I for one completely mis-called this one. I thought for sure HD-DVD would end up taking the foothold due to cost, and due to the fact that sheeple follow what they know, and it was alot easier to swallow "HD-DVD", a progrssion of just "DVD" which they already were accustomed to, than this new-fangled "BluRay" thing that they have never used and are unfamiliar with. Not to mention the cost of the discs and the players.

It is pretty clear though that technology at least is in BluRay's favor... it's a better product overall. Oddly enough, being "better" has NEVER helped Sony win any format wars in the past, so they finally get to mark one down I guess.

I have to commend Toshiba for taking quick and decisive action on their side as well. Once Wal-Mart pulls out of the market for a product you're already selling them DIRT CHEAP it's over. To what someone said earlier YES, WAL-MART decides *alot* of things in *alot* markets, sad as that may be.

Toshiba stands to lose very little here. They are innovators in MANY industries and always have been. Toshiba is one of the companies that makes alot of the technology BEHIND the brand name you see on the front of whatever given product it might be. They'll be fine.