Comments on: More on HD-DVD vs Blu-ray

By: Roy

Roy — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:24:16 +0000

Shari, only people with HDTVs will really care about Blu-ray vs HD-DVD. Cause the whole point about buying an 1080p HDTV in the first place was to watch High Def movies. When/If you ever get a HDTV, then you will see how much regular 480p DVDs suck in comparison and you will never want to watch a non hi def movie again. Seriously, it’s like once you’ve tasted the kool-aid you can’t have anything else. I got rid of about 150 DVDs about 4 years ago and haven’t accumulated many more since. I only have about 30 or so.

By: Sean P Aune

Sean P Aune — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:54:14 +0000

Shari – Honestly it’s from the perspective of I don’t want to keep investing in my DVDs if they’re going to be defunct in a year or two. Like you, I *don’t* want to throw out my collection, but I don’t want to keep investing in it if it will be dead in 2 years.

By: Shari

Shari — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:40:29 +0000

I think it’s amusing how worked up people (mostly men, btw) get about this issue when regular DVDs aren’t exactly slouching in the quality department.

I say just hold off until they duke it out, particularly since you posted awhile back that you had no time to watch your DVDs anyway and were selling some off on eBay.

Personally, I’m just going to do what I’d normally do and buy regular DVDs of releases as it suits me. I’m not about to toss out a large library because of a format change and it’s not like players won’t be compatible with my old discs for decades to come.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:13:56 +0000

Also, people talk about the PS3 as if it is a failure. It’s not, it’s probably the best game machine on the market. We’re just waiting for the games to catch up to the consol.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:12:18 +0000

“Canâ€™t someone just settle this? Is it really too much to ask? I just want to make the leap to HD dammit!”

Just get a PS3 and use the Blu-ray player in it. If the world goes HD-DVD you still have a kick ass game machine. If you buy an HD-DVD player and Blu-ray DOES succeed then you’ll be stuck.