Comments on: More woes for HD DVD http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:36:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Reiki Attunements http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html/comment-page-1#comment-25853 Reiki Attunements Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:23:43 +0000 http://sync.ymbn.net/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html#comment-25853 Love Perusing your blog... always interesting. Thankyou!!! Love Perusing your blog… always interesting. Thankyou!!!

]]> By: torontoguy http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html/comment-page-1#comment-13865 torontoguy Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:33:21 +0000 http://sync.ymbn.net/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html#comment-13865 <p>Sorry McGrath dot ca but Wal-Mart (at least my local one) has already pulled ALL of their HD DVD players off the shelves as of the Friday announcement. It may be too late for any petition to have any effect.</p> Sorry McGrath dot ca but Wal-Mart (at least my local one) has already pulled ALL of their HD DVD players off the shelves as of the Friday announcement. It may be too late for any petition to have any effect.

]]> By: McGrath Dot Ca http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html/comment-page-1#comment-13864 McGrath Dot Ca Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:59:52 +0000 http://sync.ymbn.net/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html#comment-13864 <p>Waltmart is Blu-Ray starting in June!</p> <p>And I just created a petition to give a break to HD-DVD supporters :P</p> <p>Make Blu-Ray Standard But Keep HD-DVD<br /> <a href="http://www.mcgrath.ca/make-blu-ray-standard-but-keep-hd-dvd/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mcgrath.ca/make-blu-ray-standard-but-keep-hd-dvd/</a></p> <p>Now, that Walmart done that, maybe Paramount and Universal will announce great news next week.</p> Waltmart is Blu-Ray starting in June!

And I just created a petition to give a break to HD-DVD supporters :P

Make Blu-Ray Standard But Keep HD-DVD
http://www.mcgrath.ca/make-blu-ray-standard-but-keep-hd-dvd/

Now, that Walmart done that, maybe Paramount and Universal will announce great news next week.

]]> By: McGrath Dot Ca http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html/comment-page-1#comment-13863 McGrath Dot Ca Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:09:04 +0000 http://sync.ymbn.net/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html#comment-13863 <p>Roberta: Yes, HD-DVD had more features from the start but it also means that not future options can be added without the use of "profiles" either. I agree that Blu-Ray should had settle on that first or made them upgradeable at least. The ethernet could had been added but deactivate. </p> <p>HD-DVD had it's own problem when they launched their own players. DVD's player had troubles too at first. So, I'm not surprise that any new players has bugs. People tend to forget that.</p> <p>cleebie: HD-DVD is 30GB(all movies) but 51GB was approved late last year. The new capacity is not used by any studio to my knowledge.</p> <p>Now, Star Trek (TOS) Season 2 was delayed to this summer by Paramount. 2 things:<br /> 1. Not ready or may want to use the 51GB to lower the number of disk thus cost<br /> 2. Paramount is planning to support Blu-Ray in view of this week's good news ;) and may start to postponed other larger project like this one. They may want to launch it in both formats too. That's was my first guest. </p> Roberta: Yes, HD-DVD had more features from the start but it also means that not future options can be added without the use of "profiles" either. I agree that Blu-Ray should had settle on that first or made them upgradeable at least. The ethernet could had been added but deactivate.

HD-DVD had it's own problem when they launched their own players. DVD's player had troubles too at first. So, I'm not surprise that any new players has bugs. People tend to forget that.

cleebie: HD-DVD is 30GB(all movies) but 51GB was approved late last year. The new capacity is not used by any studio to my knowledge.

Now, Star Trek (TOS) Season 2 was delayed to this summer by Paramount. 2 things:
1. Not ready or may want to use the 51GB to lower the number of disk thus cost
2. Paramount is planning to support Blu-Ray in view of this week's good news ;) and may start to postponed other larger project like this one. They may want to launch it in both formats too. That's was my first guest.

]]> By: cleebie http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html/comment-page-1#comment-13862 cleebie Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:47:27 +0000 http://sync.ymbn.net/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html#comment-13862 <p>first of capacity isn;t the same HD-DVD are 25 gigs, while Blu-Ray is 50 gigs, so with Blu-Ray bigg 25 gigs more, how is capacity is the same?<br /> </p> first of capacity isn;t the same HD-DVD are 25 gigs, while Blu-Ray is 50 gigs, so with Blu-Ray bigg 25 gigs more, how is capacity is the same?

]]> By: Roberta http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html/comment-page-1#comment-13861 Roberta Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:36:23 +0000 http://sync.ymbn.net/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html#comment-13861 <p>This is really sad when you consider that HD DVD has always provided the features that the Sony robots haven't yet delivered (ethernet connectivity....).</p> <p>Secondly, there have been all sorts of reliability issues with Blu-Ray players (check out the lawsuit over Samsung's 5000 player).</p> <p>It amazes me that people fell for Sony's crap after their previous "successes" with DAT, Beta, Elcaset, MD, etc., etc.</p> This is really sad when you consider that HD DVD has always provided the features that the Sony robots haven't yet delivered (ethernet connectivity….).

Secondly, there have been all sorts of reliability issues with Blu-Ray players (check out the lawsuit over Samsung's 5000 player).

It amazes me that people fell for Sony's crap after their previous "successes" with DAT, Beta, Elcaset, MD, etc., etc.

]]> By: Ironstreak http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html/comment-page-1#comment-13860 Ironstreak Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:34:36 +0000 http://sync.ymbn.net/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html#comment-13860 <p>I'm an avid PC enthusiast and had an advanced spec sheet roughly 6 months before both of these products hit the market. I kept these figures to myself and ran a small poll of 300 people at my workplace to ask them what they preferred as a new format " Bluray or HD-DVD as a replacement format" astoundingly only 10% actually wanted to know what the difference was between the 2 formats and over 80% chose Bluray just for the catchy name. So specs don't mean everything.</p> I'm an avid PC enthusiast and had an advanced spec sheet roughly 6 months before both of these products hit the market. I kept these figures to myself and ran a small poll of 300 people at my workplace to ask them what they preferred as a new format " Bluray or HD-DVD as a replacement format" astoundingly only 10% actually wanted to know what the difference was between the 2 formats and over 80% chose Bluray just for the catchy name. So specs don't mean everything.

]]> By: A Navales http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html/comment-page-1#comment-13859 A Navales Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:57:28 +0000 http://sync.ymbn.net/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html#comment-13859 <p>Smiley</p> <p>"Why should the big businesses get to decide who wins? We the consumers should have the choice."</p> <p>Well... if you look at he stats, The consumers actually did decide who should have the choice. Companies will not push something they cannot SELL. If consumers really wanted HD-DVD, then this war should have been over when Warner, Universal and Paramount went HD-DVD exclusive.. The player was really cheap but still did not capture the market. Why is that? Titles back then were 50-50 and I know because most of the movies I want was on HD-Dvd. So, even if Sony put Blu-Ray on PS3, the machine still costs $400 and that didn't happen until Nov. 07 the cheapest model before that was $500. We all know that not all PS3 owners use it to watch Blu-ray movies (Some of them don't even know that's why the free Spiderman movie on the 40GB). While the chepest HD-DVD at that time was $299 so they should have flown off the shelf (if it was consumers choice). Lastly, they came out way ahead of Blu-ray and blu-ray had it's share of problems so they had a head start. Did most consumers buy them? </p> Smiley

"Why should the big businesses get to decide who wins? We the consumers should have the choice."

Well… if you look at he stats, The consumers actually did decide who should have the choice. Companies will not push something they cannot SELL. If consumers really wanted HD-DVD, then this war should have been over when Warner, Universal and Paramount went HD-DVD exclusive.. The player was really cheap but still did not capture the market. Why is that? Titles back then were 50-50 and I know because most of the movies I want was on HD-Dvd. So, even if Sony put Blu-Ray on PS3, the machine still costs $400 and that didn't happen until Nov. 07 the cheapest model before that was $500. We all know that not all PS3 owners use it to watch Blu-ray movies (Some of them don't even know that's why the free Spiderman movie on the 40GB). While the chepest HD-DVD at that time was $299 so they should have flown off the shelf (if it was consumers choice). Lastly, they came out way ahead of Blu-ray and blu-ray had it's share of problems so they had a head start. Did most consumers buy them?

]]> By: A Navales http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html/comment-page-1#comment-13858 A Navales Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:35:11 +0000 http://sync.ymbn.net/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html#comment-13858 <p>Well.. As a sales person.... I would sell something that I know will not come back as a return. Best Buy knows that! The have to resell the item it 10% below retail if it comes back (I guess the had such a huge return ratio). At least if they don't sell their stock of HD-dvd players... I believe they have a clause that it can be returened to the manufacturer and sold for liquidations, or outlets. Don't you see electronic outlets sell RCA and Philips items?</p> Well.. As a sales person…. I would sell something that I know will not come back as a return. Best Buy knows that! The have to resell the item it 10% below retail if it comes back (I guess the had such a huge return ratio). At least if they don't sell their stock of HD-dvd players… I believe they have a clause that it can be returened to the manufacturer and sold for liquidations, or outlets. Don't you see electronic outlets sell RCA and Philips items?

]]> By: jn999 http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html/comment-page-1#comment-13857 jn999 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:01:44 +0000 http://sync.ymbn.net/sync/2008/02/more-woes-for-h.html#comment-13857 <p>I think this was quite inevitable. Blu-Ray sounds more sci-fi like. the aging baby booming population and mini baby boomers (the generations which loved star trek)think that blu-ray sounds more like a gadget from their favorite show. HDDVD sounds to them like a fancy DVD. </p> <p>Not many people look at and research the disc formats, but what they do, is look at the name, look at the selection available, and choose. Blu-ray definetly outshines in name and recently it has started to outshine in selection. </p> I think this was quite inevitable. Blu-Ray sounds more sci-fi like. the aging baby booming population and mini baby boomers (the generations which loved star trek)think that blu-ray sounds more like a gadget from their favorite show. HDDVD sounds to them like a fancy DVD.

Not many people look at and research the disc formats, but what they do, is look at the name, look at the selection available, and choose. Blu-ray definetly outshines in name and recently it has started to outshine in selection.

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