Re: What will YOU do with your HD DVD?

The best thing you can do is recycle your obsolete and inferior HD DVD products.

Save the environment, save your souls.

The future is Blu!

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What many people fail to realize is this format war is a little different from past wars. When DVD surpassed Laser Disc there was a reason to upgrade your collection. Laser disc was 420 lines of resolution whereas DVD was 480 lines of resolution. Having bought over 70 hd-dvd there is no need for me to re-buy these titles since they share all the same specs in sound and vision as blu-ray. I will just continue watching my 1100 dvds and 70 hd-dvds until blu-ray specs are finalized and bring me an equal viewing experience as HD-DVD has done.

All Blu-ray specs have been finalized for a long time now, and with the introductions of the Panasonic DMP-BD50 player which is a profile 2.0 player, you'll see it all implemented in stand-alone player. If you need a player NOW that will be updateable to profile 2.0, then just get a PS3. BUT, if you're a Sony hater then I guess you'll just have to wait a little while longer.

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What many people fail to realize is this format war is a little different from past wars. When DVD surpassed Laser Disc there was a reason to upgrade your collection. Laser disc was 420 lines of resolution whereas DVD was 480 lines of resolution. Having bought over 70 hd-dvd there is no need for me to re-buy these titles since they share all the same specs in sound and vision as blu-ray. I will just continue watching my 1100 dvds and 70 hd-dvds until blu-ray specs are finalized and bring me an equal viewing experience as HD-DVD has done.

I couldn't agree more. I will continue buying HD DVD movies since it will take quite some time for bluray to get some of these movies and the 1080P/24 video quality of HD DVD is still amazing know matter how you slice it so you won't see any improvement in the picture quality side. There may be a slight improvement in the sound dept on some movies as bluray may start offering LPCM sound tracks more regularly (who knows?) but to be honest Dolby TrueHD sounds pretty freakin good on HD DVD and the Dolby Digital+ tracks aren't too shabby either. I'll buy as many HD DVD's for cheap as I can and if there is a new release on bluray that I absolutely must have in hidef (and isn't available on HD DVD somehow) than I'll probably buy it BUT considering there are over 400 HD DVD's out there already (not including imports) it will be quite some time before that happens. For the quality you get on HD DVD movies and the prices they are going for I'll keep it up for sometime and then there's always Bestbuy with their one day prices on release day for $20 on new releases for DVD's. They should look sweet on the HD-XA2 when finally snatch one up. I figure I won't need to get into bluray for quite a while.

Sad Day!!!

I will buy the LG BH200 Dual Player so I can enjoy all movies on one machine, plus have the same capabilities as PS3 does in regards to firmware updates.

Cheers

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...I'll buy as many HD DVD's for cheap as I can and if there is a new release on bluray that I absolutely must have in hidef (and isn't available on HD DVD somehow) than I'll probably buy it BUT considering there are over 400 HD DVD's out there already (not including imports) it will be quite some time before that happens.

It will be intresting to see what XPloited Cinema does with their import stock. If they lower their prices, I'll buy a bunch if they don't, I'll buy a smaller bunch. But I WILL keep adding to my collection.

I need to go home after work and check, but I'm hoping that my player still works. I just hope I get there before it hears the news and stops working. Maybe if noone tells it, it will keep playing my current movies.

I seriously thought about trading in the few HD DVDs I have and replacing them with the BR ones. Then again, since they will look and sound the same, why bother. I'll just move on to BR on the PS3.

Oh well, grats to Sony. I guess you can't lose em all hu?

[Post edited by pohsib on Feb 19, 2008]

BTW, this whole notion of "still supporting HD DVD" even though it's dead is exactly why Toshiba is a huge steaming pile of StoreHighInTransit for prolonging this war. They made a lot of you feel like HD DVD is your religion and you don't want to let go.

If Toshiba had thrown in the towel in early 2007 then this wouldn't have been as much of an issue. So if you're gonna be mad at anybody, be mad at Toshiba. Look at them now, they're still trying to string you along by not supporting Blu-ray yet.

If there was any dignity to be had by Toshiba they would have thrown their support to Blu-ray while maintaining consumer assistance for anyone who had the misfortune of buying and HD DVD player and discs. If Toshiba really wanted to be cool they'd offer a trade in solution to allow their customers to switch over to Blu-ray. Frankly that's the only thing they could do to clean some of the egg off of their face.

dont you have some heavy traffic to play in?

Ahhhhhhhhh , run as fast as you can, there is some Genital herpes in the room and it won't go away AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

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They made a lot of you feel like HD DVD is your religion

And no one who ONLY supported BluRay acted this way.