Re: What will YOU do with your HD DVD?

ScottBaio you are obviously very bluray biased and that's fine. You have your opinions and I have mine.

HD DVD is far from a religion to me. I love watching movies and the best picture and sound possible. In my opinion not only was HD DVD better that bluray this whole time, it was a complete format. Especially with the prices of HD DVD players that were futureproof from the beginning with ethernet ports for updates and web content which bluray is just now getting?? If you don't agree that's fine but don't expect to convince those who know better otherwise.

Bluray won and if it's the format you chose than be happy. Some of us will be enjoying HD DVD for years to come and eventually if theres a reason to bluray as well.

By the way you're taking this stuff way too personally. You sound like an extreme fanboy when you write things like this...

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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.

At least I have a damn good upconverting DVD player on the side. It's not a total loss like beta was. We'll live.

I'm keeping my HD DVD player (XBOX 360 add-on) and movies. I got "Heroes" on HD DVD for free with it - plus the 5 free movies. I still have a laserdisc player and movies, too! I will DEFINITELY be looking for discounted HD DVDs on-line and at local used DVD stores that sell them.

Now if Microsoft would release a blu-ray add-on drive for the XBOX 360... that would be GREAT! I've got this odd-sized HD DVD player in my A/V rack with nothing next to it - an identical drive that played blu-ray discs would fit next to it perfectly!!! If they don't - which would be a real shame, I'll probably buy a dual-format player.

Maybe now that the format war is over - all thanks to Sony and their underhanded tactics in making it happen - some of the movies that were NEVER released in anamorphic widescreen on DVD will be released on blu-ray (The Rocketeer - [Disney], The Shadow - [Universal], The Abyss - [Fox]... to name a few).

Hey V.V.... yeah, I can think of a few others not available in Anamorphic/16x9 widescreen currently on DVD, that need to be remastered for forthcoming Blu-ray...

THE BLACK STALLION
NEVER CRY WOLF
FROM DUSK TIL DAWN
TRUE LIES
GOOD WILL HUNTING
ARMAGEDDON
DAYS OF THUNDER
BREAKDOWN
PRIVATE PARTS
HAIR (musical)
...others

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

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HD DVD is far from a religion to me. I love watching movies and the best picture and sound possible. In my opinion not only was HD DVD better that bluray this whole time, it was a complete format. Especially with the prices of HD DVD players that were futureproof from the beginning with ethernet ports for updates and web content which bluray is just now getting?? If you don't agree that's fine but don't expect to convince those who know better otherwise.

I hope I get those movies that I ordered from Amazon soon...

Hey, Hendrix... it's funny that you mentioned "True Lies" in that list. I had noticed on an HD channel I was watching, that True Lies was on next, so I set my DVR to record it... and I watched it begin, and I was disappointed to see not only was it NOT in HD, but it was the pan & scan (full-frame) version - and to make it REALLY BAD... it was "s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d" to fill the screen. ARRRRGH!!!

I thought that the collector's edition (boxed set) of "Armageddon" was enhanced for 16x9?

Hey V.V... I don't know exactly about the 'collector's box set' of Armageddon (maybe it is 16x9) - I'm just going on my memory of the regular DVD from years ago. Didn't know they had remastered it(?). Btw, I prefer Deep Impact much better myself - at least the asteroid did, in fact, hit the Earth (and there were consequences).

Titanic was originally on DVD without 16x9, but Paramount has since released it twice (one a box set which I purchased new at BBuy for just $8 awhile back), and each has been remasterd, anamorphic/16x9.

I want a Blu-ray hi-def version of THE BLACK STALLION - it's one of my very favorites, especially I love the outstanding cinematography, surround sound, and beautiful musical score by the late Carmine Coppola. Long out-of-print on DVD, but at least I have two LaserDisc editions (one Widescreen, and the other Full-Frame) to keep myself happy until a remastered version is done by MGM.

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

Falcon01, you are a complete idiot if you ever thought HD DVD was a complete format. It had (notice how I said "had" as HD DVD is now DEAD) plenty of issues of it's own.

Disc makers themselves have already said that their customers preferred Blu-ray because of it's larger storage capacity. Blu-ray stores more data! More then half of the movies on Blu-ray are currently on 50 gig discs. Blu-ray is superior for that alone.

If you're enjoying HD DVD for years to come then good for you, I could care less ... hell, people are probably still enjoying laser disc ... oh, wait THEY'RE NOT. HA!

To me it's pretty much just funny ... sure there are plenty of people who bought HD DVD and didn't know any better and for them I actually feel sorry and hope they are able to return their players and discs. It's the flaming HD DVD fanatics who deserve the wrath of my posts.

Toshiba made a huge blunder, and because of their dumb business practices they got served ... as did Microsoft. So they deserve the bad press they've gotten in the media. What's sad is that Toshiba used tactics that Blu-ray didn't employ, like paying off a studio to join their side ... and that didn't even work.

Toshiba did what they had to do by throwing in the towel, they were forced to do it ... and sometimes that's what it takes when a company is blind to what people really want.

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[Post edited by ScottBaio1 on Feb 19, 2008]

Size matters.

Stupid Troll.