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Hi-Def Media Lovefest: The war is over and we can all go home.

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speculawyer

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JB1981 said:
It's obviously going to have a significant impact. And it will help game sales too, of course.
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It will have an impact . . . but 'significant'? Not really. Most people don't care and are fine with DVDs.
 
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Elios83

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speculawyer said:
It will have an impact . . . but 'significant'? Not really. Most people don't care and are fine with DVDs.
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It will be significant over the coming months.
MANY people have been waiting for this to switch from DVD to Blu Ray(or HD in general) and now all the marketing efforts from all the majors will be focused on making Blu Ray a mainstream product.
 
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DrEvil

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I wonder if i'll be able to trade in my HDDDVD seasons of HEROES, STAR TREK, and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA for their blu equivalents when they release..
 
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ChryZ

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Argyle

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Woot! Now to just wait until the red-only movies come out on Blu...then I can move the A2 into the bedroom as a slow and clunky SD DVD player. I'll set it up next to my Nuon. :)
 
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Chemo

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DrEvil said:
I wonder if i'll be able to trade in my HDDDVD seasons of HEROES, STAR TREK, and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA for their blu equivalents when they release..
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Uh... no? Why would you be able to? Unless you mean trading them in at a loss for store credit at a place that takes used movies.
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
As fun as it was, I can't fucking wait until we start to get more catalog stuff, TV shows, etc. on Blu. I've been Netflix-only and haven't bought a single disc yet, but that will change very soon I think.
 
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kaching

"GAF's biggest wanker"
Guys, Big News! I just read next week's Circuit City ad flier and they only advertise BluRay movies, not HDDVD! Another nail in the...hey, what's going on in here?
 
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bill0527

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Pristine_Condition said:
HighDefDigest's "Smackdown" forum is where the real crazy zealots are. Go there for max lulz.
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Holy shit, some of those people are still in denial. I guess final acceptance won't happen unless they get a personal phone call from the CEO of Toshiba.

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you are right that Toshiba has not issued an official statement.
I would say without hesitation, however, that the red camp may be in a bit of trouble.
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RaidenZR

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Finally.

I guess we all win- some common sense. There really should have been only one in the first place.

/beatdeadhorse

But I mainly just wanted to get a post in during the applause phase here. Glad we can get on with movie consuming instead of BS.
 
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Pristine_Condition

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SolidSnakex said:
fox2jk being the king of them.
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There are so many genuinely batshit-crazy posters there it's like being a 3-year-old in the stuffed animal section at FAO Schwarz or the giant ice cream cooler at Baskin Robbins..."It soooo hard to decide!"

:lol

This place is like an episode of Charlie Rose on PBS by comparison.
 
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dabig2

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SolidSnakex said:
fox2jk being the king of them.
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I was laughing my ass off at the ownage of him yesterday after Walmart's announcement. He makes some post saying that they don't matter and never have, then someone digs up a post of his a couple months ago proclaiming that Walmart would be the turn of the tide in the war.

The little shit edited it to Amazon a couple minutes later :lol
 
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Ignatz Mouse

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Go Blu!


But most of all go One Format.

And I like that screencap of the last echoes of anti-Blu FUD... profile differences. I wonder how long it will take before those guys realize what a non-issue it is? Maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt we ever hear much about it in the future.
 
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cilonen

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Anyone seen this yet?

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/paramounts-transformers-showing-up-in-blu-ray-attire/

Per usual, we'd recommend not getting too riled up over this until it's proven definitively true or false, but considering that pallbearers actually hoisted up HD DVD's casket already this morning, maybe there's not too much sense in doubting. Nevertheless, an eagle-eyed Circuit City employee has apparently located Transformers in its internal database completely doused in Blu. You heard right -- a Blu-ray 2-disc edition of the Michael Bay flick is reportedly showing up with a UPC code different than the HD DVD version. 'Course, this really isn't quite as surprising today as it would've been yesterday -- you know, considering that BD and HD VMD are really the only options left for studios to run to -- but feel free to make of it what you will.
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Nice to see it all happening so fast if true.
 
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Costanza

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avaya said:
As we wrap up, the roll call for this thread:

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Ignatz Mouse 1,616
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mollipen

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Wow... so it's really, truly over? Paramount, Universal, all eyes are on you now. No hard feeling, just get your stuff out on Blu-ray ASAP. Dawn of the Dead remake, Army of Darkness, Transformers... I'm tired of waiting.
 
TONX

TONX

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Been a long time lurker of this thread, and its been a crazy, CRAZY rollercoaster throughout the year.

To say its finally over is pretty crazy. Wow.
 
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borghe

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Ignatz Mouse said:
Go Blu!


But most of all go One Format.

And I like that screencap of the last echoes of anti-Blu FUD... profile differences. I wonder how long it will take before those guys realize what a non-issue it is? Maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt we ever hear much about it in the future.
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right now, it is absolutely an issue given AFAIK there are only 2-3 players (aside from PS3) that support 1.1. even by this holiday I expect it to be a small issue with 2.0 and likely small adoption of that. These are the things that BDA has to concentrate on. If they can make profile worries meaningless by this holiday season that would be great.

of course we all know everyone could just buy a PS3 and never worry about it again... but really... it IS a big issue. My own sister-in-law took both my brother AND I to finally convince her truthfully that the PS3 is the best option for a blu-ray player. She gave him the go ahead on a blu-ray player but absolutely refused to let him get a PS3 because he was getting a 360 at the same time. She even gave him the go ahead to basically buy a $400 Blu-ray player but NOT a PS3... this is a really big deal to a lot of mainstream consumers for some bizarre reason. and as long as that is true, the BDA is going to have to get moving quick on all of the outstanding format issues (universal Profile support, universal internal decoding of DTA-MA and Dolby TrueHD, etc). As long as they are still pieceworking all of the outstanding features there are going to be a portion of consumers who are going to hold off as to not get burned.

Back to my example, she basically told him to hold off on a blu-ray player then if the only good one to get was the PS3... it took some time but we almost have her understanding. On the other end of the spectrum, his brother-in-law bought a BRP and is pissed when I told him he can't do picture-in-picture and that my player only takes like 5 seconds to load pirates 3. BDA really needs to get this stuff solved and implemented in a widespread manner.
 
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djkimothy

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shidoshi said:
Wow... so it's really, truly over? Paramount, Universal, all eyes are on you now. No hard feeling, just get your stuff out on Blu-ray ASAP. Dawn of the Dead remake, Army of Darkness, Transformers... I'm tired of waiting.
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Same, dunno if I'll be getting Transformers on BD, but I'm anticipating Kite Runner. Also, I haven't seen Cloverfield in the theatres so I may as rent it on BD.

Damn, 12 days left on my hddigest forum ban so all I can do is read the meltdowns..
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How do you get banned there when all the jokers their start posting ridiculous threads.
 
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