Support NeoGAF

[kassatsu]

I swear there's a fucking echo in here. Just 6 posts away is the same information and the same youtube link.

XDDD

 

[OokieSpookie]

I swear there's a fucking echo in here. Just 6 posts away is the same information and the same youtube link.

 

[polyh3dron]

LoudNinja, I'm sorry to have to break it to you, but you REALLY FUCKING FAILED right there.

lol junior

 

[Laurent]

I'm still waiting for the episode where they talk about Warner :lol

I don't think they were HD-DVD backers as much as that video made them look like...

 

[Uncooked]

Porn had nothing to do with Betamax losing, I am tired of hearing people claim that as the reason VHS won.

 

[kassatsu]

Does anyone have Invisible Target? I was thinking of picking it up this week and wanted to know how the transfer was.

 

[xS1TH L0RDx]

Does anyone have Invisible Target? I was thinking of picking it up this week and wanted to know how the transfer was.

i just saw someone in the jan pick up post thread that snagged it.

when asked how it was, here was the dude's reply:

I like it. The Cantonese DTS-MA Audio track is ridiculous though. The LFE is pretty tight. It rocked my sub hard. Jackie Chans kid ain't half bad.

 

[border]

I'm still waiting for the episode where they talk about Warner :lol

The Warner Brothers story got something like 2880 Diggs, and yet it was suspiciously absent from Diggnation....

 

[Zombie James]

I don't think they were HD-DVD backers as much as that video made them look like...

They've mentioned the HD-DVD/Blu-ray thing on their show plenty of other times ($100 Wal-Mart HD-DVD players immediately comes to mind).

 

[smurfx]

I don't think they were HD-DVD backers as much as that video made them look like...

alex for very much for hd-dvd and put down blu ray a lot of times. not surprised they didn't even mention it on diggnation.

 

[surazal]

alex for very much for hd-dvd and put down blu ray a lot of times. not surprised they didn't even mention it on diggnation.

Digg is very anti-Sony. Not surprising they didn't mention anything about the format war now that it is in favor of Blu-Ray. I'm sure it if was good news about Apple, Nintendo or xbox 360, it will be all over diggnation.

Microsoft is also one of Digg's advertising partners.
http://blog.digg.com/?p=89

 

[border]

Digg sure as hell mentioned it when Paramount went exclusive to HD-DVD:

http://revision3.com/diggnation/2007-08-23moylans

Some choice quotes from that episode:

"This is a big blow"
"They said that HD-DVD players are outselling BluRay players 2:1"
"Blockbuster supported BluRay, but then who the fuck uses Blockbuster?"

 

[smurfx]

Digg is very anti-Sony. Not surprising they didn't mention anything about the format war now that it is in favor of Blu-Ray. I'm sure it if was good news about Apple, Nintendo or xbox 360, it will be all over diggnation.

Microsoft is also one of Digg's advertising partners.
http://blog.digg.com/?p=89

kevin isn't really that anti sony, it's alex who is a huge microsoft fanboy. kevin has even mentioned watching some blu ray's and how good it looked. don't know if i'm mistaken but i think kevin even owns a ps3.

 

[snorggy]

when does the blue pac-man usually arrive? curious to see what kind of effect (if any) the warner news might have had.

 

[border]

kevin isn't really that anti sony, it's alex who is a huge microsoft fanboy. kevin has even mentioned watching some blu ray's and how good it looked. don't know if i'm mistaken but i think kevin even owns a ps3.

There's a semi-famous claim of Kevin on YouTube, where he claims that Motorstorm looks like a Nintendo 64 game.

I'd say they are not so much fanboys, but just two dudes who drink and talk out of their ass.....hating/loving something just based on the other's tone or the culture's tone. For a news show, you notice they basically never know much beyond the headline of the story they are reading. It's all just drunken bullshitting. Though the fact that they just straight-up ignored the BR victory seems suspicious.....maybe next week's episode will have something.

 

[Raistlin]

when does the blue pac-man usually arrive? curious to see what kind of effect (if any) the warner news might have had.

I can't remember the details ... but I think they went to monthly instead of weekly now?

For some reason, the 18th rings a bell. Can't recall though.

 

[TheJesusFactor]

Not sure if this is credible, but it looks like Digital Playground is not exclusive to Blu-ray anymore.

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=37343

 

[OokieSpookie]

Not sure if this is credible, but it looks like Digital Playground is not exclusive to Blu-ray anymore.

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=37343

Ah yes, the old " I called them and they told me....".
Have you ever called customer support for a company?
Any company it doesn't matter, just think to that time and how all knowing that person was...

I swear the funniest part is them calling Engadget biased to blu :lol

 

[B-Ri]

HD-DVD fires back and puts commercials on american idol

apparently all my favorite movies are on it (?)

 

[Argyle]

when does the blue pac-man usually arrive? curious to see what kind of effect (if any) the warner news might have had.

If this article is correct: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr...ment/news/e3ie7d46e37694ce94168882debd8437313

...ouch.

85 Blu-ray/15 HD DVD

 

[Snah]

If this article is correct: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr...ment/news/e3ie7d46e37694ce94168882debd8437313

...ouch.

85 Blu-ray/15 HD DVD

Wow. Biggest week for Blu ever.

 

[BoboBrazil]

If this article is correct: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr...ment/news/e3ie7d46e37694ce94168882debd8437313

...ouch.

85 Blu-ray/15 HD DVD

owned...

 

[inner-G]

fucking WAL-MART is going BD exclusive

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/business/2008/01/07/intv.blu.ray.rising.pope.cnn?iref=videosearch


Mega-fucking-ton, HD-DVD dead, etc.

 

[Wollan]

Edit: Could be wrongful.

 

[surazal]

edit: yeah, i think the analyst had some wrong info.

 

[Snah]

fucking WAL-MART is going BD exclusive

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/business/2008/01/07/intv.blu.ray.rising.pope.cnn?iref=videosearch


Mega-fucking-ton, HD-DVD dead, etc.

To be fair, I think the person is just uninformed. I'm pretty sure he's confusing Wal-Mart with Target.

That being said, yes, HD-DVD is dead. 85:15, Warner announcement. There's no righting that train.

 

[miyamotofreak]

HDDVD is dead. I'm considering cancelling my Twit sub after hearing that garbage this week.

 

[Raistlin]

If this article is correct: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr...ment/news/e3ie7d46e37694ce94168882debd8437313

...ouch.

85 Blu-ray/15 HD DVD

:lol

I'm sorry ... but for the few fanatical HD DVD supports that were trying to gather the masses to do a big movie purchase, and 'prove' to Warner that they made a mistake ...

:lol

Guess the masses sold their players already

fucking WAL-MART is going BD exclusive

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/business/2008/01/07/intv.blu.ray.rising.pope.cnn?iref=videosearch


Mega-fucking-ton, HD-DVD dead, etc.

0_o


OH SHITS. Well, that's all she wrote.

The house of cards is completely going down now. Once a retailer the size of WalMart jumps ship ... the rest will follow ... and it will likely be pretty quick. I'm expecting BB and CC to jump within the month.

And if this new actually isn't correct, I still expect them to switch within say 3 months

 

[OokieSpookie]

To be fair, I think the person is just uninformed. I'm pretty sure he's confusing Wal-Mart with Target.

That being said, yes, HD-DVD is dead. 85:15, Warner announcement. There's no righting that train.

Penton and others have been implying this for a little while now, though this is not a confirmation yet and I do not think that it is time yet.

 

[inner-G]

To be fair, I think the person is just uninformed. I'm pretty sure he's confusing Wal-Mart with Target.

If that's the case, then...

...not-so-megaton :/

 

[Snah]

Penton and others have been implying this for a little while now, though this is not a confirmation yet.

Speaking of which, what happened to the Insiders thread on the Blu-Ray forums?

 

[Raistlin]

Speaking of which, what happened to the Insiders thread on the Blu-Ray forums?

A number of HD DVD ass-clowns came in and started attacking the BD insiders. The thread was locked, and I would assume deleted by now.


It was utter chaos during CES.

 

[Snah]

A number of HD DVD ass-clowns came in and started attacking the BD insiders. The thread was locked, and I would assume deleted by now.


It was utter chaos after the Warner announcement.

wtf? seriously. that's a real shame.

that thread was great.

 

[OokieSpookie]

Speaking of which, what happened to the Insiders thread on the Blu-Ray forums?

It has its own forum now, it is under the general forum on the board list.
They broke it down to make it more organized.

http://forum.blu-ray.com/forumdisplay.php?f=61

 

[Snah]

It has its own forum now, it is under the general forum on the board list.
They broke it down to make it more organized.

http://forum.blu-ray.com/forumdisplay.php?f=61

Ah, that's even better.

It was getting hard to keep track of that massive thread.

 

[Raistlin]

It has its own forum now, it is under the general forum on the board list.
They broke it down to make it more organized.

http://forum.blu-ray.com/forumdisplay.php?f=61

Ohh ... sorry. I was referring to the one at AVS.



Man, I need to start wearing my reading glasses. WTF is wrong with me lately? :lol

 

[OokieSpookie]

Ohh ... sorry. I was referring to the one at AVS.



Man, I need to start wearing my reading glasses. WTF is wrong with me lately? :lol

:lol No worries, I do the skim thing quite a bit lately too

 

[IronicallyTwisted]

To be fair, I think the person is just uninformed. I'm pretty sure he's confusing Wal-Mart with Target.

That being said, yes, HD-DVD is dead. 85:15, Warner announcement. There's no righting that train.

The battle is over. Stores switching to Blu Ray exclusive is simply a reaction, not an action, at this point. Its a good thing, because now anybody sitting on the fence knows what to buy and those silly 1500 dollar dual format players that people were buying to be "safe" are now redundant for the most part.

 

[lupin23rd]

So Walmart is going exclusive, but actually that might be a mistake.

And Digital Playground was going exclusive, but apparently that may be a mistake too?
:lol


Anyways, did anyone in Canada exchange their mis-pressed Blade Runner disc 5 (BD) for a new copy? I'm not sure who to contact about this, I saw an email for a Warner CS person in a thread somewhere but never got a response. Thanks!

 

[Xater]

HDDVD is dead. I'm considering cancelling my Twit sub after hearing that garbage this week.

Seriously TWIT this wek was horrible. Leo was right but there was this guy from what engadget? Such an idiot.

 

[avaya]

When the article from Hollywood Reporter says "Net HD-DVD sales" does it mean net as in difference between returns and actual sell-through or are they talking about online?

Very strange term to use there.

Also the CNN report, Stepehn Pope is a tech generalist analyst from Cantor Fitzgerald. He is the one who claimed the HD optical market could be 2-3x the DVD market in the future i.e. a $120bn market...make of that what you will. He also repeated the Enderle Wii shortage caused PS3 sales increase line...

 

[Laurent]

Seriously TWIT this wek was horrible. Leo was right but there was this guy from what engadget? Such an idiot.

Yeah, he was saying that HD-DVD was FAR from being dead... I was bafled! But at least Leo doesn't follow whatever opinion is guests have, he kept saying that the consumer will follow whatever format as 75% of Hollywood releases...

 

[Laurent]

Anyways, did anyone in Canada exchange their mis-pressed Blade Runner disc 5 (BD) for a new copy? I'm not sure who to contact about this, I saw an email for a Warner CS person in a thread somewhere but never got a response. Thanks!

I did the same thing, but obtain no response. It wasn't the email dedicated to that matter, so that maybe why I haven't got a quick response... I am considering calling the phone number, I think I saw it on the Blade Runner's review from HighDefDigest...

 

[Xater]

Yeah, he was saying that HD-DVD was FAR from being dead... I was bafled! But at least Leo doesn't follow whatever opinion is guests have, he kept saying that the consumer will follow whatever format as 75% of Hollywood releases...

That's exactly the part I meant. Thank god Leo has some common sense.

 

[Laurent]

That's exactly the part I meant. Thank god Leo has some common sense.

Or he just don't see that his guest his biased? Anyway, it's not a big deal...

 

[StoOgE]

WHERE ARE MY FIRESALES? I demand cheap movies.

 

[VanMardigan]

WHERE ARE MY FIRESALES? I demand cheap movies.

Seriously. The best I've seen is Amazon's $15 movies.

BTW, knowing that we wouldn't be getting a Netflix movie until the weekend, I took the plunge on an Xbox Live HD download. I'm on DSL, so it took 24 hours to be able to view the movie. Not convenient. Anyway, the movie

Spoiler

Next, it was my wife's idea

looked quite good on my 56" DLP, though there were obvious banding, detail, and slight compression issues and the encode struggled with fast moving scenes. Definitely a big step down in quality from HD DVD/Blu Ray, but nothing that would bug someone like say, my wife. The sound was DD 5.1 and sounded pretty good, but I'm no audiophile. The download was about 4.4 gigs, so I wasn't expecting HD disc-level video/audio.

Overall, it was pretty cool, and I could see this becoming more mainstream, but not anytime soon. The high prices, long download times, and limited selection will likely keep HD movie downloads as a niche for a few more years. SD downloads, on the other hand, may take off sooner, but not with Apple's model. I think MS' (and soon Sony's) approach, with their set top box delivering the download, is the better model, since the boxes will easily outsell AppleTV.

 

[Kolgar]

owned...

Wow. Biggest week for Blu ever.

LOL, I'm sorry, but what did everyone expect after the Warner announcement?

I think a ton of Blu-ray owners probably bought discs in celebration (and relief knowing their purchases were safe) and a few reds went blu as well.

This is not a surprise.

edit: Is Wal-Mart going Blu-ray exclusive? They'd better, and the rest of the retailers had better follow along quickly. This is virtually over, but it needs to be over for REAL.

I liked HD DVD as much as anyone, but I saw a commercial for it last night and it felt like seeing a ghost.

 

[acabado]

Digg sure as hell mentioned it when Paramount went exclusive to HD-DVD:

http://revision3.com/diggnation/2007-08-23moylans

Some choice quotes from that episode:

"This is a big blow"
"They said that HD-DVD players are outselling BluRay players 2:1"
"Blockbuster supported BluRay, but then who the fuck uses Blockbuster?"

"Blu-Ray was fuun...":lol

 

[michaeld]

fucking WAL-MART is going BD exclusive

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/business/2008/01/07/intv.blu.ray.rising.pope.cnn?iref=videosearch


Mega-fucking-ton, HD-DVD dead, etc.

I watched the video and heard that guy say the stores will only sell BR players in store, but HD-DVD players can be bought online, and I didn't hear anything about movies. What part of the video does he say that they are BR exclusive?