Comments on: One Year Later

By: nt300

nt300 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:03:11 +0000

It’s too bad the better format lost. It’s also too bad Sony bribed many companies to stick with Blu-Ray exclusively. They banked on the PS3 and won but at a great loss. Now we see Hi Def Downloads starting to trickle in which will most likely be the winner in the end.

By: Dummy1212

Dummy1212 — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 03:09:01 +0000

one thing about the inetvideo sale. I dont know if this is true for all copies, but i purchased a copy of Letters From Iwo Jima a few weeks ago, the hd version, not the hd/standard combo, and when I received it, it came in the HD only packaging, but upon opening it, it included a combo version disk. not sure if this means much to anyone, but it might be worth taking the gamble and saving a few bucks.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:18:06 +0000

Inetvideo with yet another few HD DVDs in, If you don’t have what they’re depleting stock offers, nows the time!
(Harsh shipping charge of 10.46, slightly bufferred by automatic 15% discount when checking out.)
Plus the more you get the less that shipping is a percentage of the cost.
Good hunting…
http://www.inetvideo.com

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:36:19 +0000

Pravin, if I were to write an article about the format war, would you be willing to post it on your blog?

> I would strongly consider it. Come up with something and I’ll see if there’s any editing help I can provide and we’ll put it up.

By: McCloud

McCloud — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:01:04 +0000

A late adopter to everything HD-DVD … “and loving it”. Picky about my movies but got everything I wanted (and then some) in hi-def, for DVD-bargain-club prices. Built-in up-conversion handles all the rest thank you very much. If HD-DVD wasn’t clobbered by back-room pay-off dealings, I wouldn’t be here.

Blu-Ray? Just another Laserdisc. It probably will putter along as Laserdisc did. “Hi-Def” was never that really that big step up as, say, DVD was to VHS. Symmetry.

DLC? Capture cards will solve that problem. Media is the message. Storage is transparent. Ah-Oom!

By: Pravin

Pravin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:36:40 +0000

Yes, Dan, I should have pointed out that if your provider maintains a record of what you’ve ever purchased, then there’s a good chance that you can just download that material again and it’s not lost forever.

I wonder if our local drives may only need to store the content that we are actively viewing, and only if there’s space will we need to store a larger local library. For everything else, we might just be able to redownload a title we have paid for when we need it again, or explicitly want to download it.

The one drawback is that you may be tied to the service and/or device. Hopefully, upgrading to a new device or computer does not hose you.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:26:31 +0000

Whenever you download something on XBL, you have it downloaded. Meaning if you switched hard drives and recovered your gamertag you’d be able to download that same media you bought for free since it registers your account. So the idea of losing money if your hard drive fries is ridiculous. I am much more worried about Blu-ray’s quality control; which as of now is not so good and gives me no incentive to buy into a format that can barely stand on its own legs.

By: Pravin

Pravin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:09:10 +0000

Macalatus – Another issue with downloads is that the files may not play on a future device or another device than the one they were downloaded for.

By: macalatus

macalatus — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:52:08 +0000

To the rest of you folks championing DLC as the “thing of the future” read this: DRM will be the biggest obstacle. If you think that DRM is tight enough now, it will definitely tighten more as DLC becomes more popular due to people trying “reverse-engineering” the codes or other crazy things for piracy purposes. What that means to you regular consumers? Should your hard drive fail on you, please do not cry about spooning another $18 downloaded version of a hi-def movie because you can’t re-download it for free. Heavens forbid if your hard drive contained an entire collection of $4000 worth of movies goes kaput because that would be another…$4000 out of your pocket!!

By: Buckeye71

Buckeye71 — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:15:04 +0000

I have owned a blu-ray player since May of last year,and like it very much,but I’m certainly not a blu “snob”.
So,I just bought a used A1 player from a seller on ebay for S75.99 including shipping,and four HD DVDs used from Amazon Marketplace for about $28 shipped.Three of them are titles that aren’t available on blu yet,and one (Transformers) I got for the low price of about $4.00 with shipping….that title on blu-ray still runs about $18 or $19 at Amazon and about $24.99 at Best Buy!
So,I am very happy to declare myself purple,and will continue to look for HD DVD bargains every chance I get!

Oh,and to “Just Browsing”,while it is true most people like the color blue,I have to say I much prefer the red color of the HD DVD cases!