HD-DVD is dead - Toshiba throws in the towel
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HD-DVD is dead - Toshiba throws in the towel
Yay! The format war is over. Now we can get back to increasing consumer acceptance ---> lower priced hardware.
Damn I was hoping that HDDVD would win... although over the last 4 months or so it became apparent that it was over. Sony basically through marketing and mis-information lead everyone to believe they had a superior product, although the capabilities were much the same. Glad to see it sorted out though.
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since microsoft and toshiba had so much at stake in this venture, shouldn't they have done what sony did? flood the market with hardware? what would it have cost them to include an HD-DVD drive in every xbox360? $20?
the only thing i really dislike is having to call movies "blu-rays" from now on... as in "i'm going to buy that movie on blu-ray disc"... DVD sounds nicer.
the only thing i really dislike is having to call movies "blu-rays" from now on... as in "i'm going to buy that movie on blu-ray disc"... DVD sounds nicer.
Re: HD-DVD is dead - Toshiba throws in the towel
Thank goddess. I'm so glad hd-dvd is out finally. Blu-ray here we come! And if you don't like calling it blu-ray, just call it BD...official abbreviation.
I don't think Microsoft had so much at stake. Yes, you could buy an HD-DVD add-on for the XBox 360, but that was an add-on. Nothing to stop them from releasing an external BR drive. I don't know what the licensing revenue for HDi was/is for Microsoft, but I believe it can be a stand-alone technology (e.g. not purely tied to HD-DVD).mr. poopyhead wrote:since microsoft and toshiba had so much at stake in this venture, shouldn't they have done what sony did? flood the market with hardware? what would it have cost them to include an HD-DVD drive in every xbox360? $20?
For Toshiba, on the other hand, this kinda sucks. Although I guess they won't have to be selling HD-DVD players at a loss any more.
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There are plenty of region-free DVD players out there, and when it comes to software something like VLC will play them all too. Not that I disagree with it being an annoyance, but it shouldn't be a major problem as long as you get good equipment.klankymen wrote:ahhh once again gay ass region locked dvds that when I buy in the states hate my european equipment and vice versa. crap like that discourages me from even BUYING dvds.
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99% of dvds I encounter will play on VLC. And then I hit one that doesn't. So I have to use windows or something else to play it. and then this program tells me "you're dvd drive is the wrong format, please change it. you can only change 6 times" So I'm fine while in VLC, but every once and a while I hit one of those dudes. Now I'm down to 4 more changes, should hopefully be enough to tide me over till I have a BD drivefloffe wrote:There are plenty of region-free DVD players out there, and when it comes to software something like VLC will play them all too. Not that I disagree with it being an annoyance, but it shouldn't be a major problem as long as you get good equipment.klankymen wrote:ahhh once again gay ass region locked dvds that when I buy in the states hate my european equipment and vice versa. crap like that discourages me from even BUYING dvds.
Still it's annoying.
I'm probably going to be watching high def DVD's on my PC well before I do on my TV...just because of the investment involved for the signal chain...but there is no way that I'm going to invest in Vista just to play DRM'ed DVD's.....is there a player utility that'll work under Ubuntu? I'll dual boot for watching movies
How about investing in OS-X just to play DRM'ed DVDs. After all, Macs do DRM just as well as Vista (e.g. the OS is just as locked down).* For HD formats under Ubuntu, see this documentation.CA_Steve wrote:I'm probably going to be watching high def DVD's on my PC well before I do on my TV...just because of the investment involved for the signal chain...but there is no way that I'm going to invest in Vista just to play DRM'ed DVD's.....is there a player utility that'll work under Ubuntu? I'll dual boot for watching movies
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*I had to say this, I'm so tired of all the Mac users out there who carp on DRM in Vista when OS-X is just as restrictive if not more so.
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1. They have no idea or conception what they are missing.klankymen wrote:people care more about movies than music. for whatever reason. humans are primarily visual creatures. which is why people get hd-tvs, but not surround systems (I mean good ones, not htibs)
2. Music by nature lends iteself to repeatability. There's no movie I want to sit through several hundred times. The score for Gladiator? I quit counting after about 500, and it's still going strong.
No movie has ever put on as great a roller coaster ride as a brilliant score.