Comments on: HDDVD tries to ressurect with $3M Superbowl ad

By: d

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:40:36 +0000

I watched the superbowl and didn’t see any ad for hddvd.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:31:39 +0000

like 31 said: whatever, anything by Sony will not entering my house!

EVER!

By: josh

josh — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:33:04 +0000

i have the HDDVD player hookup for xbox 360 pretty tight.. have a blue ray player in next room.. love the, both haha

By: KiDZ

KiDZ — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:24:54 +0000

I think opinion from Michael Collins is right HD-DVD should use a cool names… many guys buy Blu-Ray coz the name but don’t know HD-DVD is the better…

By: thomas

thomas — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:33:29 +0000

chinese are making their own CH-DVD (based on HD-DVD), guess these standalone players will be compatible with HDDVD, with price 10$…, oh bye bye Blue-rray

By: HellasVagabond

HellasVagabond — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:55:39 +0000

@75
Plain SD DVDs are great but for TVs up to 42inches. Anything above that and you get to see why HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are better. Even if you do get a top performing upsampling player still screens of 55inches and up wont have the best possible quality. Besides with the prices of HD-DVD getting as low as 99$ in some occations why even buy an upsampling dvd player ?
Bottom line , those who have 55+inch TV sets should get a next gen HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player.

By: night

night — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:17:08 +0000

what i like to think is the whole disk format is dead(been around sins the 80 more or less. sins the then a new cheaper mass storge as arived . the 1 tara hard drive so i say……….. Long live stand alone HiDif (might i add you) video hard-drive players. so any format hddvd BR dix vob or any other format you got out there these suckers can play it. plus you can update them to take on new codec files just for latter newer codecs , so you are all ways up to date. llater

By: hdfghfgh

hdfghfgh — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:09:32 +0000

Blu-ray is not good for consumers, so why do you like it Martin? Are Sony paying you ad cash? lol…

I agree with Calforba, if HD-DVD exploits it’s consumer-friendliness it will win, easily.

By: Calforba

Calforba — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:19:33 +0000

All the HD-DVD industry has to do to win this war right now is to release a low cost burner and blank disks. More power to the people buys the consumer edge. Think about the protected Apple Mac format Vs the open IBM PC format in the 1980s. Or think how MS leads the OS world – window$ is so easy to pirate. Yo ho.

By: DMM

DMM — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:44:55 +0000

I have two HD-DVD addon drives, one for my Xbox 360, and one for my PC. Obviously, I would prefer HD-DVD not die, but things are not looking so good right now.

By: grimpr

grimpr — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:18:07 +0000

HD-DVD all the way!,more consumer friendly and easily ripped. boycott blue-ray now.

By: AlphA

AlphA — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:25:55 +0000

Now I like HD-DVD and what they are trying to do is great!! But I do feel that the time comes when you need to admit defeat and cut your losses.. not throw a further $3 MILLION dollars towards a product thats loosing out big time.

By: eat it

eat it — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:03:09 +0000

@64 it’s nice to know first-world asshats like you can so easily parrot everything you read and watch. i mean really… that’s what you’re doing, yer just reciting all the same ol’ crap saturating teh internet and tv. if you really were smart, you’d wait. see how it played out. who knows? maybe HD will win in the end (i hope). maybe BD. i don’t know. the next guy doesn’t know. even the companies don’t know for sure. so sit down and shut yer pie-hole polly. ’cause the last time i checked that so-called first-world country of yours has the highest rate of believing everything the media and anyone wearing blue shirts and khakis spoon feeds it. in my books that’s not smart. it’s just cross eyed, mouth breathin’ stupid.

i agree with those who’ll continue to use established formats until prices and whatnot come down. it’s working fine now, why invite more headaches? besides this is scene, as long as there’s stuff to rip and post or downld and burn i’m happy.

By: HellasVagabond

HellasVagabond — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:57:31 +0000

#61
SONY payed FOX 170$ million to stay on their side. Due to MANY manufacturing issues with Blu-Ray discs FOX wanted to go HD-DVD exclusive but SONY bought them off. Did they also buy off Warner ? Most possibly.

#64
SONY hasnt EVER managed to pass not even 1 of their proposed Media formats. They LOST the Betamax war, they LOST the Mini-disc war and a few more. Now they just want to win and they are doing it by buying out everything that stands in their way. The only thing good about SONY is that they have More MONEY than Toshiba and they also get support from Samsung , Panasonic , Sharp and virtually every other Brand out there that makes Blu-Ray players. So in a few words dont think for a minute that Most Movie Studios took SONYs side because Blu-Ray is better, they did it because SONY bought them off.

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:40:52 +0000

This is Toshiba’s last hurrah, maybe it will be successful maybe it won’t. We’ll find out eventually.