Re: HD DVD AS A FORMAT IS NOT DEAD, WHEN WILL PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THIS???

I agree with Reaggie, thats when I will jump on a Blu Ray player.

Thanks TC! I said this right after the news myself. Toshiba may give up making their players but they're not going "blu" either. And the others are continuing to produce, and look at Europe and China. LG is making more combo players and I'm hoping an HD-DVD-RW.

robert256 said -

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"Only problem now is that Blue Ray is the only remaining HD in the market."

FYI - Actually, there is one other (new) hi-def disc format (if you are interested), with players starting at $199, and movies under $20 MSRP - HD VMD - 1080p video, but no support for next generation lossless audio formats.

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

FYI - Actually, there is one other (new) hi-def disc format (if you are interested), with players starting at $199, and movies under $20 MSRP - HD VMD - 1080p video, but no support for next generation lossless audio formats.

How come no one out there ever heard of HD VMD? Are they suppose to be better then blue ray? How many studios support there format? I had to create another account I could not log into my other one its screwed up.

Just wanted to say, This could have all been avoided and people would not have to have a obsolete player, if Toshiba and Microsoft were no so greeded and left the blu-ray group in the first place. Remember there was only going to be blu-ray and only blu-ray but like in the past with the PC's they wanted to take peoples money with a different system. Count the number of upgrades from DOS to Vista and ask yourself is a company that contently puts out a less than steller product but charges all the time with upgrades are really doing you a favor or puts out hardware that dies on you. I have had a Macintosh from 1984 and a PS3 for 14 months and have never been happier. I beat I have spent less on technology and have had less problems.

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I have had a Macintosh from 1984 and a PS3 for 14 months and have never been happier.

LOL...that's funny, what do you use a 1984 Mac for, a paperweight?
Everybody goes off on how much better Macs are but you can almost buy two PC's for the price of a fast Mac.

robert... I really think the HD VMD format is geared for Asian markets, especially India, since many of the movies available so far are clearly either Indian made, or for that country's population.

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

Any profile 2.0, full loaded machines for 200 bucks yet?

I was reading so many posts that I forgot what the topic was and had to re-read it to see if my post would be on-topic or not!

Anyway... HD DVD is NOT dead - not yet! Toshiba may have pulled the plug, but this HD DVD thing is still breathing, has a heartbeat... it still has life! I have a laserdisc player and movies (and my player IS on life-support), I have several old game consoles going back to Atari 2600 - and they ALL are not dead. Sure, I can't find new food to feed them, but there are many used MRE's (if you're not old enough, or ex-military... you probably don't get that) I can still get for them!

I look forward to buying a combo hi-def DVD player that plays HD DVD's well, and is not obsolete on playback features for the "other" format!

I'm also hoping Microsoft will release a blu-ray add-on drive for the XBOX 360 by the end of the year.

P.S. The XBOX 360 HD DVD drive also works great as an external DVD ROM drive for desktop or laptop computers running Windows XP or higher (I don't know about Macs)! I don't know if there are any HD DVD drivers for Vista, yet.

I think the biggest reason there was a "war" is because studios started taking sides. Both formats could easily exist together. Just like Target and Wal-mart or Best Buy and Circuit City or even McDonalds and Burger King. NBC and CBS or BlockBuster and Hollywood video.