It's not over people, get a grip, relax

[loki22]

It is over if they throw in the towel, which may happen. The original studio allegiance was
5:3 in favor of blu Sony, Fox, Disney, WB, Paramount to WB, Para and Uni
then
4:3 in favor of Blu when Paramount moved
now
4:2 after WB shifted
HD DVD survived earlier how? I know now a few are jumping ship but this could go on longer if it is the desire of HD DVD. HD DVD has two exclusive studios now and at inception they only had one.

Great. But they have one less studio than they had at inception, and that missing studio is the most important studio in HDM. If you think that a format can survive with only two studios releasing on it and/or those two studios will continue to release titles on the format after they're the only two, we can't have a rational discussion.

[BDVrentsBlu-ray]

As stated a couple of times by a brilliant poster in another thread:

"It's a fait accompli."

[Blinx123]

Give up, folks.

They've already started to sell HD DVD players as "upconverting DVD"...

Good joke. But these are upconverting players (better recorders). Your comment just shows that Blu-Ray only user actually don't know anything about HD-DVD and it's current state.

Toshiba has a standard individual case design so actually most of their players are looking nearly the same (except of the measurements of course).

And no. It's not over. Universal and Paramount will release some great flicks this year and Warner isn't as big as some guys here stated.

Some guys here are talking if they were fans of the communism in saying things like "Warner is the only big studio and no other studio does have good releases".

Guys: It's Hollywood not Defa.

[jadedeath]

And no. It's not over. Universal and Paramount will release some great flicks this year and Warner isn't as big as some guys here stated.

Right, HD-DVD just lost a third of the support that their format has, not only that but the studio that had the biggest marketshare of HD-DVD disks sold, and it's 'not as big as some guys here stated'

Hill-arious!

Some guys here are talking if they were fans of the communism in saying things like "Warner is the only big studio and no other studio does have good releases".

Well, HD-DVD guys just lost a big studio and if they feel that Warner is the only big studio that had good movies, they're fully able to come on over to the Blu-team.

Logan

[Rino13]

That is for sure. Toshiba won't make any profit anytime soon like you said. Thats why i keep my point that they dont have anything to lose than sell them at low prices to get more consumers and try staying alive.

they tried this already with the $98 Walmart sale....look where that got them

[loki22]

I concur (a person of reason has joined the room), things aren't looking good for HD DVD right now and could get worse, but they could get better as well. They're not dead yet people.

Uhh, no. That's not what I said. You can continue to to try to console yourself with mere possibilities, in the face of extremely high probabilities, though.

[oscar]

Just look at all the new HD DVD players announced at CES (or lack thereof) to gauge the "health" of HD DVD....

[Blinx123]

For all HD-DVD supporters or Ex-Supporters who want to aboard ship or already did:

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/show...&postcount=134

Patience is saddly something I really miss in our society so I thought I give it a try.

[wentwj]

Good joke. But these are upconverting players (better recorders). Your comment just shows that Blu-Ray only user actually don't know anything about HD-DVD and it's current state.

Nice try but the HD-DVD logo is CLEARLY visible on those players (at least the middle one in the lower right).

[sonydude1966]

Uhh, no. That's not what I said. You can continue to to try to console yourself with mere possibilities, in the face of extremely high probabilities, though.

I will, thank you very much again. Letting this thread go away now. Have a good one. Thanks all for the smackdown.

[Videodrome]

they tried this already with the $98 Walmart sale....look where that got them

Yeah, Universal selling a few extra copies of The Big Lebowski.

[draiken78]

I'm not sure what kind of guarantee you are talking about. An exchange policy for defective product? I think thats pretty much already in place for EVERY PRODUCT ON THE MARKET and its generally handled at the retailer level.

Except when they break a player with a poorly written firmware update and your 30 day return window is expired. Hell, it's been 5 weeks since POTC:AWE was released and they still have no firmware to make it play on the Samsuck BD-P1200.

[MidnightDT]

Oh, yes it is.

Q4 2008. HD DVD will be missing from all retailer shelves. 100% guaranteed.

no chance. and if it did come to that Toshiba would just pay the retailers for endcaps and further promotion in the stores

[dvdvision]

People like movies, not studios. When they see 100 blue boxes and 10 red boxes, that's all they need to know.

It's over. Admit it.

Hello, people have chosen, it's DVD, Blu have lost.

[Blinx123]

Nice try but the HD-DVD logo is CLEARLY visible on those players (at least the middle one in the lower right).

The middle one maybe an HD-DVD player. But the upper one is obviously an HDD recorder (as the feature list states).