War is not over! Only the battle

HD-DVD still exists. It is the blue-ray/Sony fanboys that are proclaiming this nonsense, and the newsmedia is on their side. The battle with Toshiba is what is over. The battle with Microsoft and HD-DVD itself will never end, I promise you. As long as we buy HD-DVD (which we still continue to do) then there is that demand that Warner and Best Buy was talking about. When HD-DVD sales rise again, what will happen next? Hmm. Only time will tell.

While I enjoy your enthusiasm... I have to keep myself grounded in reality. With the sell off of players we will see a small increase in market share, but that will come to an end once paramount and Universal go blu. I hope I can keep getting HD-DVD for a while. I have 130 now and growing, and will continue to purchase these discs for as long as they are made.

What can I say? I am a sucker for Dark Red.

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What can I say? I am a sucker for Dark Red.

me too

[Post edited by r-u-serious on Feb 22, 2008]

I Hear That!

Cannot wait for Beowulf. Ah, the eye candy!

[Post edited by wolvinator on Feb 22, 2008]

I must say I do not see HD-DVD sales rising again.

Oh and as for the war, well bluray is sitting in the Eagles Nest drinking the expensive wine.

[Post edited by KungFuTaco on Feb 22, 2008]

I too am waiting for:
Beowulf
I am Legend
Bee Movie
Sweeney Todd
Their Will Be Blood
They are going to be my Super Special "Limited" Editions!

people on both sides of the fence need to stop identifying themselves emotionally with these formats. its ghey.

Toshiba bowed out because they saw MS wasn't going to lift a finger. That's it. It's done.

If you'd worked a little harder, you might have been able to afford both. like me.

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The battle with Microsoft and HD-DVD itself will never end, I promise you. As long as we buy HD-DVD (which we still continue to do) then there is that demand that Warner and Best Buy was talking about.

Come on dude, give it a rest. How is the war not over when no one will be making HD DVD players anymore??? Sure the existing player base will continue to account for disc purchases but that will become an increasingly smaller percentage as more Blu Ray decks are sold and no more HD DVD players are available for sale.

Get with reality, I know it sucks that the superior format lost, but move on like the rest of us.

"The War's over, we're all just folks now."

The OP's title is sound, but the premise is not. Regardless if your opinion of HD-DVD, there are no more players being produced. All of the content providers have announced their intent to switch to Blu. There really is no more point in arguing that HD-DVD will prevail in a format war between Blu-Ray that is essentially over now that the primary backer of the format (Toshiba) has thrown in the towel.

That being said, I think that Blu-Ray's next hurdle is mass adoption of the DVD market. Note that I don't think that downloadable HD content is going to be much of a player. The market is 'trained' to obtain physical media and any VoD marketing has alot more to overcome than Blu does in that regard - although it could revolutionize the rental business.

Blu-Ray's success or failure is going to be directly linked to getting more HDTVs into homes. Period. The cost of a Blu-Ray player, while considerably more than you'd pay for an HD-DVD player is chump change compared to getting the standard definition TV folks to switch to HDTV. I think that's why we are starting to see retailers throw in a 'free' Blu-Ray player with the purchase of some HDTV's.

I don't expect prices to go up for Blu-Ray as many here have suggested. Blu-Ray has a much more difficult struggle ahead than a format war and will need to keep the incentives there, and to adapt them to the mass market.

Yeah for a long time after dvd came out you got free movies if you bought the players. They had to get people away from their vhs tapes.

aimhigh... Microsoft does not own or distribute major film content, just some minor titles they released a few years ago for playback on a PC.

I've said this many times and will so again (like some others here on this thread) - when NEW releases are NO LONGER BEING ANNOUNCED for release, then the format platform is DEAD.

As of right now, there are no major studio-announced HD-DVD titles beyond the end of May for the USA/North American market. So, unless that changes, the ONLY titles possibly available will be for any other titles still being released in overseas countries, such as Dutch, French, German HD-DVD releases.

Once all of the other areas end support for HD-DVD releases, well, then it's THE END for the format, unless some smaller entity decides to release something on HD-DVD (like one of our Msg Bd members, DjFunkmeisterG is hoping to do, with his independent film, Trapped, at a later date).

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

As long as new software is being released for HD DVD and both Samsung and LG both continue to produce and sell a dual format player, HD DVD will continue to grow, albeit at a more slower pace than when Toshiba was at the forefront of backing the format.

There will come a time when there is no software being released on HD DVD and no one manufactures a player capable of supporting HD DVD...then we can play the death dirge for the HD DVD format.

I will continue to support the HD DVD format as it works for me at present...I may see Blu in the future, but right now, I am comfortable in supporting HD DVD, and where need be, SD DVD

Question? Does anyone know for sure if Universal and Paramount will discontinue in May? I was under the presumption that they would continue until the end of this year?

Oh by the way, a friend of mine that works for London Drugs in Canada said that their warehouse had pretty much depleted all stock of Toshiba HD DVD players. the only ones left were that of those still in stores...

Another friend that works for Futureshop had 1026 A3 Toshiba's for all fo Canada three days ago, and now has pretty much sold out.

Too bad it doesn't mean anything.

[Post edited by ReaggieP on Feb 22, 2008]

How is Break through made in dilusional thoughts?

Have you HD-DVD fantatics asked yourselves that?

[Post edited by Bordello1900 on Feb 23, 2008]

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How is Break through made in dilusional thoughts?
Have you HD-DVD fantatics asked yourselves that?

Huh?

Dylo,
I agree with you about getting HDTVs into homes in order to really get Blu going. As far as the price for stand alone players is concerned, the prices may not go up but I don't see them coming down much either. You figure that even when the format war was going on the player prices were still at $400.