Big fan part 1 The dirt and

Big fan part 1

The dirt and scratches alone would assure nobody wants my copies. Yup, I have watched this one closely from day The better technology lost here big fan part 1 sure. Microsoft can be thanked for killing HD-DVD with their half hearted attempt at supporting it on the 3 The 360 was first to market and if it had of shipped with the HD-DVD drive as originally planned I am quite sure Blu-ray would have never surfaced months later after HD-DVD began its true stranglehold on the market. PS3 have sold more units in the last year to be strictly a blu-ray player and this killed HD-DVD. I am a victim as I bought the 360 add on drive, but I saw the doom and gloom for HD-DVD and picked up a PS3 boxing day for 3 So I guess I will add some cheap HD-DVDs to my collection and I will continue to buy 360 games and let my PS3 sit there for movies only. Congrats to Sony and Blu Ray! Now if Sony can just fix the PS3 to send bitstream DTS master audio to a compatible receiver all will rest easy. HP is currently offering Blu-rayHD DVDDVD combo drives on their new desktop computers. I wonder how long its going to take them to go HD DVD Free. Now, support for HD DVD is a negative, not a positive. I imagine that Blu-ray readers will soon be standard equipment on most computers. I ebnded up with a HD-DVD player for about 40 so i have one. It works great for upconverting standard dvds. But i have always wanted blu ray over HD-DVD. Anything Microsoft backs is well worth staying away from. Just like the Sync on ford cars i would never want a car with microsoft software running on it. With the way all the other stuff they make works id be afraid it might freeze up and tell me i have to pull over and roll up my windows in order to reboot. One problem is MS is always trying to much at one time. They have to have their hands in everything. They never thought about a graphics interface operating system till Apple had one and it sold well. Then the MP3 Market takes off and so they have to make a zune. Then the game industry booms so they have to be a part of that. And just cant keep up with it all. instead of making a few things really great they make 10 dozen things half right. I knew long ago blu-ray would win. After all no matter how cheap you get when you can only get 2 movie studios on HD-DVD and if you wanted any other studios movies you had to get Blu-Ray. Then of course when blockbuster said they were going to go BLU-Ray only as well as Target i knew it was just a matter of time. Then Warner Bros leaves HD-DVD that marked another nail in the coffin. When beta max vs VHS things were different. In most ways Betamax was better and higher quality video But most people had little 13 or 19 in TVs and most consumers could not tell a difference let alone cared big fan part 1 they wanted was the cheapest way to be able to watch Videos and record videos. VHS was able to record longer times which made it more feasable to consumers. Money is not the total issue here. People will pay more for good quality. Maybe if HD-DVD had been considerably cheaper things might have been different. Most people who buy HIgh-def either are doing it because it comes with the PS3 so since they already have a PS3 might as well use the BLU-Ray features. Or the others are the people who have home theaters and the difference in DVD SD and Blu-ray resoultion makes a huge difference. Blu-ray will come down in price. If we woudl get rid of inflation and go back to the Gold standard where our money is based on gold and silver you would see prices of everything drop dramatically. When our dollar is worth less then everyone elses it does make the price of things go up because the dollar buys less now then it did just 10 years ago Based on the benefits of HD, did anybody really expect the big Hollywood studios to toss their support behind HD DVD? No more region coding makes the discs more they dont want. Savings to pass on to they dont want. Allowings consumers to purchase one disc and get regular definition and HD definition instead of purchasing two separate discs rebuy titles they already they dont want. Big Hollywood wins again. Congratulations on pointing out the Blu Ray mugging.