It's only a matter of time before they stores start clearing out their HD DVD inventories. Im one of those who had a laserdisc player and was able to get some great titles for less than $10. I remember getting all three Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies for $3 each. Anyways....hopefully we can post some good deals on HD DVD's in this thread. I havent seen anything yet, but it's only a matter of time. http://www.deepdiscount.com/HD-DVD_stcVVcatId462364VVviewcat.htm There are some pretty good titles for $12, but i can only imagine them getting cheaper in the weeks/months to come. I'm just glad American Gangster came out before HD died.
Excellent thread. My target price is 10 dollars and i think it is likely that the good hd-dvd movies that I want will reach that price point. My only question now is how much longer the studios will support hd-dvd and will warner bros fulfill their promise of supporting the format until may (i think). I really hope I am legend still gets released as planned and not canceled.
yeah i am waiting to get a lot of cheap ones I have most of the "must have" titles I want on HD but there are still a bunch I would like to have but did not want to spend the 20-30 price tag. I think it would be after march or so when I think toshiba said they would stop selling/shipping/making players that we'll see stores trying to get rid of inventory. on a side note my roommate works for Sony Pictures in their blu-ray Sales planning/forecasting/analyzing dept and when we were talking over the weekend after the news was released he tells me "you know all those buy 1 get 1 that we had going on?" GONE! looks like blu-rays will be slowing down their sales (at least ones that were subsidized by Sony) and prices will probably remain the same for blu-rays for some time until mass production starts which maybe late this year/early next year. He already said that all of Sony's production plants are at full capacity making blu-rays for all the studios, hopefully now they can start making more production facilities or start licensing out the production side to other companies. oh and I am upset at American Gangster not having the extended version in HD just the theatrical version in HD. that was lame IMO
from what i heard they're as low as 99 at circuit city....my old man just told me they're selling the A3 for $79 at Costco
I'm hoping for $10 or less, but wouldn't count on it. Apparently studios don't want to devalue future blu-ray/high def sales by dumping HD DVDs now...they'd prefer to destroy inventory than dump it.
hmm.. good point. It would be weird getting movies in HD-DVD that were cheaper than their lower quality dvd counterpart.
If they're at capacity, they're at capacity. However, I'd hate for SONY to believe that because HD-DVD is going away, they've got a clear shot at success. The biggest competitor to Blu-Ray wasn't HD-DVD, it was people not buying either one. That possibility still exists even without HD-DVD.
Is it possible to burn movies using Blu Ray or HD-DVD? Do you have to use a program like DVD Shrink or can you just straight copy?
If you have a 360, Gamestop/Ebgames is selling the Hd-Dvd add on for $49.99. Maybe Tinman can now afford one !
lol. you know you can still use the HD DVD player as a upconverting DVD player....so it's not completely worthless...nobody would sell it to you for $5
So has there ever been a real good objective break down that detailed the pros and cons of both? I've heard that Blu Ray has a higher storage capacity, but that HD DVDs looked better because they used a better codec.
Blu-ray has up to 50GB of space on a dual-layer disc. HD-DVD can only do 30GB. The codec issue was in favor of HD-DVD initially since the vast majority of titles used the new VC-1 codec. Blu-ray titles through most of the first year of the format's existence featured the MPEG-2 codec that was carried over from SD-DVDs. Couple that with most discs only having a single layer(25GB) due to manufacturing issues, and the end result was HD-DVDs generally offered superior picture quality to Blu-ray discs. There were a decent number of Blu-ray titles that looked terrific, but they often had to drop most if not all of the DVD extras in order to fit the MPEG-2 transfer onto the disc. Now however, nearly every Blu-ray title since Spring 2007 uses MPEG-4/AVC which is either on par with VC-1 or superior depending on who you ask. 50GB discs are also much more prevalent. And Blu-ray always had the edge when it came to percentage of titles with lossless or uncompressed audio. Lots of HD-DVD releases only had Dolby Digital Plus. Bottom line. The better format won. Blu-ray is capable of so much more thanks to the extra 20GB of space. The players need to get up to spec with 2.0 and lower prices wouldn't suck too much. Oh, and for God's sake, either offer a way to decode DTS HD-MA or abandon the damn thing!
I have a dumb question...Does the HD-DVD player also upconvert Std. DVD's? If so, I'll probably be in the market for one...I would buy one for $79 and the movies from $5 - $10... I do agree that the Blu-Ray disc won't be going on sale and they will phase out the sales...
