Attention early adopters!

[ben7ben3]

Originally Posted by Lee Christie

Because say you were to buy a combo player, ignoring the fact its increadably expensive, say you bought about 50 Blu-ray Discs, and 50 HD DVDs, then when the war is won you'll have 50 usless discs.

Why?... Because even though you currently own a player for them, it'll be unsupported, start to become old and ugly, and when it breaks down you'll have trouble finding a replacment device that reads the losing format. (ever tried to find a Betamax player?... well I haven't but I'm guessing it's difficult)

So I'd say, either pick a camp or stick to DVDs. That's just my opinion.

But from your argument, if you pick the losing side, which COULD be blu ray, then you are out an entire collection...
really, the argument is moot, in my opinion anyone buying these new formats is doing so so that they can enjoy them right now, so that they can see their fave movies in HD right NOW. imo, this war will not be won by even the end of 2009, regardless of studio support on either side. yes, blu ray has its advantages, but so did beta, and the fact is HD DVD IS a good format. it may not be as good as blu potentially, but for the general consumer out there, hd dvd is more than acceptable. i had been a blu supporter, but now i am into hd dvd as well, because i don't see an end...nevertheless, i am hopeful blu will win, so i buy ALL my HD DVD stuff used so as to push my support to the blu side...but that doesn't mean i can't enjoy the hd movies that are out there as well as the blu ones. i think a lot of the people on these forums need to stop being so rude to people who want to get both, who are u to say u are the right one? u really do put a lot of people off to the situation by treating them like garbage just because their opinion is neutral or different than yours.