What Did You With Your Betamax?

[ADRiiAN`]

I'm wondering to everyone who bought a HD DVD, and if you more than likely, lose the format war and everything goes blu, what you are going to do with all your HD DVD players and disks?

Well this is to anyone who owned Betamax.

What did you end up doing with them?

[mo_jt]

My betamax is still in a box in my basement.

[buckshot]

i found my parents old super beta and sold it on ebay 2 years ago for $400

[Dyana B]

I've kept mine for posterity, much like the first generation dvd player by Panasonic.

[The Don]

I never purchased an HD-DVD player...

[beavis667]

I might buy a HD-DVD standalone to be a dustcover for my betamax.

[TheRealBob]

I knew people that kept their Betamax players and movies for a long, long time. They still worked. For one example, I knew someone that had the Star Wars trilogy on Betamax and would dust off the player every year or so to watch them probably up until three or four years ago.

One thing that puzzles me is how people are acting as if HD DVD players are now set to blow up in two weeks or something with all the talk about useless collections, etc. The things will continue to work for many, many years. Picking up a cheap extra player or two when the fire sales hit will ensure you can play them forever.

If had an HD DVD player and a significant numbers of discs, I'd certainly certainly stop buying more HD DVDs, but I don't think I'd panic like some people are. The aintitcool guy was talking about how he had hundreds of HD DVDs so he's "out" all of that money. Unless he absolutely can't find room on his rack (give me a break), there's nothing stopping him from continuing to enjoy those discs indefinitely.

Hopefully when the dust settles and HD DVD is truly dead (no more discs being made) some companies will make some nice Blu-ray players that support HD DVD playback for those that had collections, similar to how some DVD players (such as Panasonic) support Video CD playback even though that format is dead.

[WesReviews]

I guess this would be the best place to ask this, but... my grandmother recently gave me her old Betamax player. This this is almost brand new. Amazing condition!

All of my old home movies are on Beta tapes, so I would love to be able to watch these on my current home theater set-up. I only have the original power cable, but nothing else.

I'm not the most technical guy in the world, so what do I need cable and hook-up wise to be able to watch my Beta home movies on my Samsung plasma TV?

Thanks in advance!