January 8, 2008

• With the news over the weekend that Warner Bros is now completely exclusively backing Blu-ray as the HD video disc format of choice, the "war" has really tipped over to one side. Considering that WB is the biggest seller of home videos, this is a really big deal in seeing who will win the HD video disc format war. Good news right? Yeah, unless you have an HD-DVD player in your collection. This is one of the reasons I said to wait it out, before choosing a side in the next gen High Def video disc.

  I said it before, HD-DVD = Betamax, and Blu-ray = VHS. History repeats
  itself, with the winning format that's ALWAYS had the most support.

  
  As soon as Universal + Paramount can go Blu-ray, then I'll be
  considering getting Blu-ray movies. That's only if dedicated Blu-ray
  players are in the $150-$200 range though. I'm honestly happy
  upconverting standard def DVDs on my 1080i HDTV, and I don't see that
  changing anytime soon, even after I've seen HD movies on Blu-ray with
  the PS3. My families and most of my friends are still sticking with
  DVDs as well (upconverted) with no blip on the radar for them to go HD
  on video discs. Also with us trading DVDs with each other, there really
  is no reason for me to go HD yet. My boycott continues...

  Not sure if you guys have noticed, but a lot of the average consumers
  out there actually believe that an upconverted DVD player actually
  makes their Standard Definition DVDs into "real" HD. That kind of ignorance though will
  help DVDs last a lot longer than you may think, short of the studios
  completely dropping that format (possibly 2010 the earliest), or stores like Best Buy completely
  stop selling SD-DVDs. Although I myself am backing upconverting
  SD-DVDs for now, I at least know there IS a difference.

  The future is Blu, but the present is still DVD.

  

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