I’m only basing my opinion from memory but last time I checked internal PC drives that support HD DVD are slowly running out of stock.

I know there is plenty of support for ripping HD DVD discs as a backup but I’m not sure how I will distribute my digital media in the future or what hardware and software I’ll use to create it.

I currently use a media center PC and an Apple TV to distribute the CDs and DVDs I’ve backed up digitally. I’m not sure what type of Media Bridge or hardware I’ll use later on but I’m sure it will eventually support things like 2160p and newer audio formats.

When the software is released that lets me rip content in a format that lets me use the latest hardware I think that there will be more support for bluray and hardly any for HD DVD. Why not take advantage of the price now? Sure by that time the discs will probably be the same price or less but why wait?

I guess my experience in the home automation industry and seeing lighting and power surges taking out equipment makes me more skeptical about how long a piece of gear lasts.

I thought it might be nice to have the discs to take with me once I have a bluray player in the laptop I travel with or once I purchase a cheap player for my bedroom. Or maybe even take to a friend’s house to watch.

It sounds like a few people here bought an HD DVD player for every TV in their homes including the bathrooms with a few backups to spare. I didn’t realize how many people supported HD DVD technology so strongly.

I wonder if I should sell my minidisc and laserdisc players on eBay. Any takers?

I also have a lot of DVD Audio discs and SACDs but I’m not willing to let go of those. Someday we’ll have lossless audio downloads for just about every song out there, someday.

You are missing the point and are making the assumption that we only own one format. I own 2 HD DVD players and 2 Blu-ray players. I take advantage of any deal I can get on both formats. Is that wrong?
I didn’t go out of my way to buy HD DVD, I already owned them when Toshiba threw in the towel. I also already owned a Blu-ray player at the time. I have purchase yet another Blu-ray player since.
I shop at sites like Amazon, Deepdiscount, and iNetVideo to get the best deals on either format. I praise both HD DVD and Blu-ray for delivering HD to TV sets that were around for a while with no HD content to play.
I saved myself 40 bucks just for purchasing the Ultimate Matrix on HD DVD instead of Blu-ray. Why is that wrong? On the other hand I forked out 70 bucks for Band of Brothers on Blu-ray. Why buy it in regular 480P DVD when I can see this in its full splendor in high def. Had it been available in HD DVD… I would of bough it in that format, but it wasn’t, so I got it in Blu-ray.
Just the facts.

Just stop the whining and crying and just enjoy your toys ok kids?

So you suggest a new type of dvd, where you would need a new player (to read both sides of the disk), and need new disks (cause of the different config of layers)… and then say we don’t need HD-DVD or Bluray cause we need to buy new players and disks for them? wtf?

I truly look forward to the day when we can stream BD/HDDVD quality AV across the net with no data caps. but even then, I would still like to store my stuff locally, because i don’t like relying on the internet for stuff. and with all the DRM and stuff they would put in it, I can guarantee it would be easier to move a disk from place to place, player to player, than a virtual file.

the other big thing is compatibillity, with a physical disk, the industry is less likely to change the format of the movie as regularly. if it was just digital downloads, there would be countless different formats, changing all the time. so if you think the BD spec fiasco is bad, digital downloads would be alot worse.