Re: Press Relase: Warner Bros. to release on Blu-ray only

Did it occur to anyone that maybe Warner Bros. might have made their decision based on holiday sales? I did. I don't remember where but I read a breakdown of HD DVD and Blu Ray holiday sales and based on that I decided to jump in and start buying Blu Ray discs two days ago (though I haven't bought a player yet) with the Amazon BOGO.

WB was the last company to release in both formats and they've made a decision (let's not praise WB here they're as bad as all the others).

As for timing, before the CES is pretty timely! Better than after the CES or years later.

No one wants to be on the losing side of a format war (I won't even touch the question of which format is better) but this has been a pretty short war and no one made you buy an HD DVD or Blu Ray player. You listened to the arguments of both sides and you made your choice. You knew this could happen. If you're on this sight you're 100 times more knowledgeable than the average Best Buy or Walmart shopper.

No one doubts WB wants to make $ but they make way more $--all the studios do--by adopting one format quickly. In fact, WB might have made more money over the holidays had they made the announcement a couple of months ago when these rumors started. If consumers were given only one HD choice this holiday season I don't doubt there would have been twice or three times as many player and HD disc sales.

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Technically the moment the buyers began investing in HD DVDs and Blu-ray they began buying less standard DVDs.

And they should sell less because there are far more movies that are pure crap than ones that are epic. I don't care about looking for "Big Momma's House" at Best Buy when it's in the $5 bin at the angy poor people's store (Wal*mart).

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Funny coming from one of the poster fan-boys. And no this site is going to get worse too, because we are going to have to listen to the Bluray fanboys congratulate themselves for all eternity.

Not true dude, we used to talk about all kinds of topics on this site, and hopefully that's what it goes back to.

rpruthee said -

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"Warner is giving time to HD-DVD owners and others. The HD-DVD support will drop in May which is almost 4 months from now. Do you recall Paramount dropping support immediately? They cancelled all their BD releases with immediate effect. In this aspect, I respect Warner's decision on dropping HD-DVD support 4 months from now."

Good point about Paramount. Ironically, a few days ago I was on eBay and noticed some joker who had 5 "cancelled" Blu-ray copies of the Paramount film SHOOTER (w/Mark Wahlberg). He thought these were something "special" since they were recalled on the Blu-ray format (this past summer), so, if anyone is interested, they are for sale on the eBay site, for, get this, $75 each!! Ridiculous.

I wonder if soon an HD-DVD joker will decide to sell some HD-DVD titles (now that they will be a "collectors item", and soon no longer available), for a ridiculous markup as well...?

-Love Hendrix! (The Loverboy)
~ DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray/KURO Plasma owner ~
(and proud LaserDisc owner - 3 players still kicking!)

the_dvd_chef spouts:

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Funny coming from one of the poster fan-boys. And no this site is going to get worse too, because we are going to have to listen to the Bluray fanboys congratulate themselves for all eternity.

I've owned an HD DVD player for about one year, and have accumulated a fair amount of HD DVD titles (73). Since I bought my player when they were still very expensive, coupled with the number of disks I bought at full retail because BOGOs didn't exist then, I have a considerable investment in the HD DVD format - likely more than you. My last purchase was the delivery of the 4 Warner Harry Potter HD DVDs 2 days ago.

It seems you call anyone a "Bluray poster fanboy" who doesn't agree with you on ANY subject. Why is that? (Actually I know )

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Not true dude, we used to talk about all kinds of topics on this site, and hopefully that's what it goes back to.

God I hope so, it was nice when we used to discuss movies. Not whether they were coming out in High-Def and for what format. Hopefully after a few days we can get back to that.

Meh, my player still plays perfectly fine and the upconverting is practically HD quality anyways. I'm not saying I won't go with Blu-Ray eventually, but it won't be for quite a while. I want to wait for a good player to be released first. The PlayStation is fine, but I don't like how you can't really use a universal remote with it. Also, when updating firmware, can you use a disc?

WB, you are still scum. I just went on Amazon and canceled all my WB pre-order HD DVDs. I know I'm just one person, but I hope others follow so you have a bunch of movies that you can't get rid of for this stupid move.

Yeah, now we'll be able to talk about movies and complain why Blu Ray disks are triple the cost they are now. sounds like fun times.

BTW...I'm curious to see if Blu supporters actually do go after DVD now that HD-DVD is all but dead.

I feel like I should wear my Browncoat today since that's kina how I feel about all this. We lost. Don't mean I don't think we were better.

There's no news so depressing that injecting Firefly into it can't make me a least a little happier.