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Just keep the player and continue to watch the movies you've got. Hell, buy more titles if you can find them cheap enough. It's not going to suddenly become "standard def" just because the format is dead. There are still plenty of people out there with their collections of Laserdiscs, Betamax tapes, vinyl records, and 8 tracks. Go get yourself a back up player at a discounted price and enjoy your HD DVD titles until the next big revolution in home entertainment becames available in the future. At that point your HD DVD player will be considered a novel piece of format war history from days long past, and would make quite the conversation piece at your future cocktail parties.
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To the original poster:
I do find your concern valid about the long-term viability of your HD-DvD wares, but expecting some sort of salvage value/trade-in/rebate/etc is, sorry to say, absolutely ridiculous. You can look into it, but don't expect it. There was no "insurance" with your purchase. It doesn't work that way. Just write it off in your head as an extra expense you paid to enjoy the HD quality sooner. A few years from now it won't matter. Now that I got that out of the way, here's what I would do if I were you. Short run: Very simple, do nothing much for a while. Just keep your HD-DvD player in good condition and enjoy your HD-DvD discs as normal. A year or so from now: BD equivalents of your HD-DvD discs will be available, and disc prices will drop after being more mass-produced - a direct result of the format war being over. Replace the HD-DvD discs one-by-one as your budget, or any advertised discont sale, permits. If you had the budget to buy two competing units of HD-disc-tech at super-high prices then I can't see how this would be a problem for you. Long run (even if your HD-DvD player is finished): Now you can probably replace anything HD-DvD you still have in BD format real cheap. If however an HD-DvD title you have never makes it to BD (although unlikely), by then the technology will be such that you can create a BD equivalent of your remaining HD-DvDs via affordable software to play on your BD player. Simple as that. Then you can go on to eBaY and sell off anything remaining you still have in HD-DvD to hardcore collectors who will drool over this rare stuff from a "few years back" - and in some cases will still purchase it even if you announce it may not be functional anymore. There's some payback for you win-win style. Problem solved. Or at least, that's what I would do. |
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Buying early is a risk...if it wasn't everyone would have just gotten in and then expected an exchange program if the format the chose lost. You can't expect to see too many programs like that, but I think there may actually be a few of them out there...sort of turn in your HD DVD player and save $?...I think I've seen that somewhere.
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![]() I would recommend a combo player if you have the money. If not, just buy a BD player and put it next to the HD player. If a trade-in ever happens, you could either trade them in for BDs and sell all your HD DVDs and your HD player, or you could keep them and let them gain value. When the next big thing comes out, you could sell both and get the money for, let's just say, holographic versatile disc (HVD). Hope this helps you! ![]() |
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I am keeping both my HD players and probably looking to get another BR player (when the 3rd gen players come out).
I also bet that there will continue to be companies like LG (hopefully Oppo) that will make players that cover both formats. Although HD DVD is technically dead -- think that someone will want to tap into the market be at least licensing HD DVD tech and putting it in their players for the hundreds of thousands of folks that have/want/own HD DVD media. |
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