Blu-ray wins

[AMDave]

courtesy of aap

Tuesday February 19, 07:50 PM Toshiba concedes defeat over HD DVD

Toshiba has conceded defeat in the battle over formats for next-generation video.
On Tuesday it announced it would no longer develop, make or market HD DVD players and recorders, handing a victory to rival Blu-ray disc technology.

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[Brucifer]

Maybe it's a win to some. It's a bummer to many due to their investment in the HD-DVD format and their investment in their movie library. I'm getting old. Got screwed with the betamax thing. Now this. But can't say as I've bought or rented a movie in the past year, so I don't think they are going to be getting any big bucks out of me in converting a movie library over to the blueray format.

[Beerknurd]

I don't own either so it makes no difference to me... I don't even have an HD TV yet...

[Bok]

I've kind of been waiting on this personally, before I bought into any of the next gen DVD's. Looks like Blu-Ray it is then..

[sentient_life]

I'm glad I didn't invest in the Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on. I was on the fence waiting for a winner to be decided even though regular DVDs are fine with me. Quite a bit of stuff is transmitted over the internet, so physical media may go out of style in the future anyway.

[NeoGen]

I was waiting too for one of them to step up, and I guess Blu-ray is the one.
I thought HD DVD would win because TV sets advertise "HD" and that could lead people to buy HD DVD as well.

But come to think of it, I don't really want to have to buy my favorite movies every few years because a new kind of media shows up. I'm thinking that the absolute best would be to drop all of these media formats and have everything stored in hard drive. Then, with a media center or gaming console, stream the movie from the hard drive and play it on the TV. As simple as that.

One hard drive of 1Tb could hold all my movies, music, images, etc, and still would have plenty of free space for things to come. But instead of that I got piles of CDs and DVDs laying around the house, some that in a few years from now will be deteriorated and unreadable.

No media format wars for me no more... I'm going digital!

[Mime241]

No media format wars for me no more... I'm going digital!

I am right there with ya, I am sick of storing Hundreds of DVDs/VHS (the VHS tapes aren't mine, they are my wife's, I swear ).

Although, we will see if the market turns in the next few years, I know a TON of people who like to "own" a movie, and to do that it requires something physical such as a disk or tape. This "digital ownership" doesn't sit well with them.

[mitchellds]

Well go get yourselves a PS3, because.... built within its capabilities, is a hardware/software solution(line doubler) that upscales or upconverts normal DVD's to run at higher HD output formats. In some cases at much as 1080p standards. read the below.

Personally doing this myself, I can tell a marketable difference by running my DVD's this way. I wouldn't even consider a repurchase to the blue ray of a already owned DVD unless it was something that I really really really was fanatical about. Right now, I cant think of a example, and I have probably have over 100 dvd's easy.

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9722853-1.html
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3159845