Why I might be going format neutral soon and might start buying HD DVD movies

[phil]

Go ahead and buy the HD DVD player, if you're a fan of watching those films. No one here is ready to admit it but the chances of HD DVD dying are less likely everyday and you're more likely to see both formats dying due to becoming outdated then HD DVD all of a suddeny dying. As much as people hate HD DVD in this forum I think one year from today you're not going to see any difference. I don't think a year from today you're going to see any let up or any difference in this format war, and the reasons why HD DVD sucks are still going to be up there and basically people are going to be repeating the same things but with a few small alterations, like maybe 6 more months and Paramount will be back or something. But if you wanna watch HD material you should do so NOW. You're more likely to see HD in general becoming outdated and dying then HD DVD dying at this point in time.

I for one own both, and although blu may be superior in this or that form HD DVD visually isn't tha differnt and I'm using a 2 differnt Sony Bravia Monitors as well as a Klipsch surround setup and in my home nobody from the sofa can see the differnce, and really only the differnce is in titles. So if you want the titles go ahead and go for it I say, more power to ya. Be aware though that you're only going to buy about 15 HD DVD's maybe 25 but no more.

And like I said AT this point it's more likely that 1080p is going to die out before one of these formats dies out. There is no sign what so ever that HD DVD is letting up. If anytihng they're going to go all the way to the end even if that end is being second place in sales.

I'm still going to pick up Transformers and Face/Off pretty soon here. And I really don't care if it's in HD DVD, but Face/Off is a pretty cool flick as well as the Bourne Series, Matrix, and Heros. I'm more inclined to buy one of those films then a Blu Ray film I'm just blindly taking a chance on, even if it may become awesome. I just wanna get titles I know for sure I'll wanna watch, that's all.

It's all expensive, and consindering what I invested in both my TV's and sound setup, I could care less if hypothetically I'm hurting Blu Ray and what not by buying HD DVD's I wanna use my Setup to it's Maximum Potential Right NOW!!, and until I see a valid reason behind why HD DVD's hurt my setup then I'll continue to buy both HD DVD's and Blu Ray's at my own discretion. And if HD DVD's die so be it, it's not like my HD DVD's are going to vanish. In the past I've owned Sega Dreamcasts, Sony Mini Disks, and I don't regret one bit owning those systems, I'm use to it. You get media for your system you enjoy when you have it and you move on, you should accept those risks the moment you buy it. If you're remotely at all in the computer world or in electronics world it's pretty much main stream and universaly accepted that these things happen. Did you all start off with HDTV's as your first TV?