HD DVD or Blu-Ray, which will you get??

Which player are you going to get?

  • HD DVD - cheaper

    Votes: 18 30.0%

  • Blu Ray - Sony has the power

    Votes: 8 13.3%

  • Dual format player

    Votes: 11 18.3%

  • WAITING it out until one dies and one wins COMPLETELY

    Votes: 14 23.3%

  • Neither, just going to get a nice upscaler/converter DVD

    Votes: 2 3.3%

  • Neither, my old DVD player is just fine

    Votes: 7 11.7%
  • Total voters
    60
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chrisf6969

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BTW, I'm a COMPLETE IDIOT and couldn't get the poll options right! (why there were multiple posts!)

Ok I've been holding off until there looks to be a more conclusive lead from one. So far I'm really leaning towards HD DVD and almost bought one last week. The only thing that stopped me was the fact that the dual format players just got released (though $1200!). So I was thinking maybe I should hold off a little longer for a cheap dual format player.

What are you going to do?
 
It is still cheaper to buy a HD DVD reader and Blue Ray reader separately....
 
I've already casted my vote. I own and enjoy HD DVD. If Blu Ray sticks around for the long haul, I'll buy a player when the prices come down.
 
Blu-ray because there's more space ...

Oh and you are not helping blu-ray with your "Sony has the power" option ... :rolleyes:
 
U HAX0R said:
Blu-ray because there's more space ...

Oh and you are not helping blu-ray with your "Sony has the power" option ... :rolleyes:
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I agree completly on that last statment. I want the blue ray but i'm not participating in this poll.
 
I bought me a nice 1080i upscaler. Because I have 400+ dvd movies and not spending another $30 a movie to upgrade.

However if I had a choice, I'd pick blue ray and just pickup a PS3 as a "cheap player." However $600 is still too much to watch movies.
 
Sticking with current dvds unless of course prices drop rapidly soon, but otherwise I am waiting for Protein Coated Disk (estimated at 50tb of space:) ) or Holographic Versatile Disk
 
i was thinkin about getting a blueray drive for the pc to burn discs mainly for backup. but the discs are like @ 20$ a piece for a 25 gig disc. blank dvds are already cheap and i still get mad when a burn fails. i couldnt image loosing 20$ to a failed blu ray burn :mad:
 
Blu-Ray.Oh, and Sony are NOT the only people behind Blu-Ray. Panasonic, Pioneer, Samsung.. all of them are involved as well.
 
I will get the one that I can make run under linux, without consumer protection and that has cheaper recordable media.
 
Neither till they come way down in price. Until then I have a nice upscaling dvd player that seems to do a very good job.
 
I'm probably not getting either for right now. If I were to choose one right now, then I'd have to get hd dvd. The xbox 360 drive is probably where I'd go with that.
 
TechHead said:
Blu-Ray.Oh, and Sony are NOT the only people behind Blu-Ray. Panasonic, Pioneer, Samsung.. all of them are involved as well.
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Yeah. Bad poll.

Blu-ray is ahead on eproductwars.com. Universal is the only studio still exclusive to HD-DVD. If they drop out the Blu-ray will be the way to go if you want to insure you'll be able to play any movie out there.
 
I'm going to hold out on this one until I have an HDTV to call my own.
 
Hvatum said:
Yeah. Bad poll.

Blu-ray is ahead on eproductwars.com. Universal is the only studio still exclusive to HD-DVD. If they drop out the Blu-ray will be the way to go if you want to insure you'll be able to play any movie out there.
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BUT the P0RN industry has said it is going exclusive HD-DVD, so given its HUGE multi billion $ sales, I think this could be a key win for HD-DVD.
 
chrisf6969 said:
BUT the P0RN industry has said it is going exclusive HD-DVD, so given its HUGE multi billion $ sales, I think this could be a key win for HD-DVD.
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People still buy porn on disc? I thought the internet was the big thing.
 
HD Porn... quality you just cant stream.... or even download with a reasonable amount of time

Though I hear some of the "actors" (used loosely, no pun intended), are complaining that HD is so detailed you can see every little flaw on their bodies, like the warts, hemroids, scars (removed warts), etc... on their privates! :eek:
 
chrisf6969 said:
BUT the P0RN industry has said it is going exclusive HD-DVD, so given its HUGE multi billion $ sales, I think this could be a key win for HD-DVD.
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Not that important in this day and time of internet downloads, but also understand that porn has been on Blu-ray for some time now (in Japan). Also Vivid in the US is already releasing porn on Blu-ray.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37021

The one of things that made porn a big factor in the 70s was the fact that you could only get it through one place (VHS). This was back in the time of back rooms at mom and pop shops. In the 21st century, we have MANY other means of spreading this content to the masses. Therefore, porn is nowhere near the factor it once was in the visual format war of the 20th century. The overall video market is 25B, porn on DVD is something like 2B.
 
Hvatum said:
Not that important in this day and time of internet downloads, but also understand that porn has been on Blu-ray for some time now (in Japan). Also Vivid in the US is already releasing porn on Blu-ray.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37021

The one of things that made porn a big factor in the 70s was the fact that you could only get it through one place (VHS). This was back in the time of back rooms at mom and pop shops. In the 21st century, we have MANY other means of spreading this content to the masses. Therefore, porn is nowhere near the factor it once was in the visual format war of the 20th century. The overall video market is 25B, porn on DVD is something like 2B.
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$2B in DVD PORN is a LOT.
 
chrisf6969 said:
$2B in DVD PORN is a LOT.
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Yeah, but 2B of 25B is only 8%. No one is contesting that 2B is a significant amount of money, but compared to the rest of the movie market it is really not very significant. Ontop of that there is already porn available on Blu-ray. The whole accusations that Blu-ray is not allowing porn is totally unfounded. Digital playground seems to have had a problem figuring out where they could publish Blu-ray, but Vivid doesn't have problems with it. :p
 
Also pr0n makes a much higher profit per unit then the movie industry does. They usually sell movies for $20-$30 each with a production value of $10-20,000 and you move 100,000 units (much less then what major movie studios sell) which cost about 30 cents per unit to make. Then your talking about making a damn nice chunk of chain for a minimal amount of work. Also another thing that brings there buisness figures up into the billions is of course the fact that per year Pr0n produces probably 2-3x the catalog as Hollywood movies.
 
I voted upres for now. Right now FFDshow properly configured is just giving me a damn nice image.
 
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