Is this the death of HD DVD?

[Kev_85]

Transformers - one of the biggest releases for HD DVD - has no lossless audo. Which is 50% of the hi-def experience. The reason - not enough space! We are only is the infancy of hi-def, and already there is not enough space. What will happin when longer films start coming out? There wont be a chance of fitting lossless sound. This is really a joke. HD DVD should be put to sleep, sooner rather then later.

[Mikeesracing]

Can you say Betamax,,,,, I knew you could

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by Kev_85

Transformers - one of the biggest releases for HD DVD - has no lossless audo. Which is 50% of the hi-def experience. The reason - not enough space! We are only is the infancy of hi-def, and already there is not enough space. What will happin when longer films start coming out? There wont be a chance of fitting lossless sound. This is really a joke. HD DVD should be put to sleep, sooner rather then later.

oh god this makes me think that if paramount really is going to release Titanic on Hd-Dvd it will have to have no extras and no good sound and so the only way they could if it was a 2 disc set but that ruins the purpose of these high in GB discs compared to dvd

[bhampton]

The death of HD DUD was last Nov and came in the form of PS3.

What's happening now is an effort to remind the losers that they lost. The HD DUDers are the thickest of sort and they can't take a hint and they hide from the facts but one way or another they will have to deal with it soon enough.

-Brian

[Kev_85]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

oh god this makes me think that if paramount really is going to release Titanic on Hd-Dvd it will have to have no extras and no good sound and so the only way they could if it was a 2 disc set but that ruins the purpose of these high in GB discs compared to dvd

Maby if they go back to black & white they could have lossless sound!

[david2189]

dont think this will kill the format, but it wont help thats for sure

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by Kev_85

Maby if they go back to black & white they could have lossless sound!

Titanic is too long of a movie for a hd-dvd but for blu-ray it would be no problem because the movie itself is over 3 hours just by itself and they wish to put that in a 30Gb disc? black and white picture doesnt sound appealing at all maybe watching the white part would be but not the black and lossless sound? hd-dvd isnt even worthy of it

[Kev_85]

After this, why would anyone choose hd dvd over blu-ray? Its a joke

[lokus]

I don't feel it is the end of HD-DVD. I feel they have a lot invested in this and they won't give up until we are at the 90:10 range. Even then they probably won't give up.

[TruBlu2]

Originally Posted by bhampton

The death of HD DUD was last Nov and came in the form of PS3.

What's happening now is an effort to remind the losers that they lost. The HD DUDers are the thickest of sort and they can't take a hint and they hide from the facts but one way or another they will have to deal with it soon enough.

-Brian

Its funny how the hdduds keep discounting the PS3 effect, when the PS3 effect keeps gaining momentum every week.

They shift the focus AS IF the PS3 doesn't count, which in case it DOES COUNT!!!!

GOODBYE hddud!!!!

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by TruBlu2

Its funny how the hdduds keep discounting the PS3 effect, when the PS3 effect keeps gaining momentum every week.

They shift the focus AS IF the PS3 doesn't count, which in case it DOES COUNT!!!!

GOODBYE hddud!!!!

and yet they call that piece of crap machine called xbox 360 hd-dvd add on drive an actual hd-dvd player even if it cant output 1080p

[Mikeesracing]

Originally Posted by lokus

I don't feel it is the end of HD-DVD. I feel they have a lot invested in this and they won't give up until we are at the 90:10 range. Even then they probably won't give up.

According to the Amazon sales 90/10 might be closer that people think. If another studio could have another sale right after desney it sure would help.

[Go Blu]

Lets not forget the slew of BR Players coming out soon too.
What does Toshiba have....3?

Sam's Club and BJ's both have big end cap displays filled with the BDP-S300/301's.

Then we got the 40Gb PS3 coming soon. Every time the price drops by $100 the units sold per month double.

I would say its looking pretty good so far.

[DragonSarc]

Die HD-dud Die!!!

[gamer4eva]

if we smash HD-DuD in the transformers and the shrek 3 week i don't they'll be any reason left for new adopters to choose hddud and even the backers to continue this stupid fight

[Icemage]

Even with black and white, lossless audio isn't always guaranteed. Take a look at the DD(BD)/DD+(HD) tracks on Good Night and Good Luck, for instance...

[SS316SRV]

I was under the impression that it was bandwidth and not size that was not allowing HD DVD releases to have lossless audio? Either way, it defeats the purpose of the "Look and sound of perfect" (the fact that no industry rep has called them on this is mind blowing).

[UltimateFighter]

but but but...this will all be taken care of with the 51gb disc...lmao

[cawgijoe]

Toshiba will give up when they feel they can no longer make money on HD-DVD. That's the bottom line. No company wants to lose money.

Once that happens, they will turn around and start making Blu-Ray players.

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by UltimateFighter

but but but...this will all be taken care of with the 51gb disc...lmao

yeah by that time we will have our 100Gb discs and why number such as 51? do they think 1 GB more then our 50Gb discs makes much of difference? no it doesnt