Warner Bros. to back Blu-ray DVD format exclusively

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Published: January 4, 2008 4:42 AM PST

Warner Bros. to back Blu-ray DVD format exclusively

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Move seen by some as an end to the format war; Toshiba, maker of the rival HD DVD technology, vows to fight on.
The party for HD DVD is over, literally

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51 comments (Page 1 of 3)

Take that, Xbots!
by Wookiee-1138 January 4, 2008 6:30 PM PST: Your Trolling days are over.; Reply to this comment

Cool
by brandonh33 January 4, 2008 6:50 PM PST: I cant wait untill all of the 360 and hd-dvd fanboys start showing up this is going to be hilarious. I can see it now. "Its not over consumers are all about price and our cheep peice of crap 1080i unit is $50 cheeper." You know, the war already has had a winner for a while, the only thing that was confusing was when the war would end. Honestly I dont believe hd-dvd is just going to go away, but its going to turn into nowadays vhs and tape, they are still for sell, but nobody buys them and there will be very small supply. When does that happen? I am betting on 1 1/2-2 years. Ahh, I cant wait for the o so sweet fanboy hatemail comming my way, but i speak the truth:); Reply to this comment View all 2 replies
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Sigh
by ylla January 4, 2008 10:14 PM PST: The scary thing is that no matter what site I go to I keep seeing the exact same posts (and posters apparently) saying the exact same comments over and over. Makes me wonder who all the REAL fan-boys are - I'll never understand why people have such odd "loyalty" to technology branding. How many times do you need to say the same thing in so many places? Does it matter THAT much? LOL.; Reply to this comment View reply
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Format War
by wilswong January 4, 2008 10:21 PM PST: Be real Toshiba...bluray is technically more superior won't just you accept that fact and just roll over and die off. I appreciate the fight but those who are technically inclined are not buying HD DVD or Bluray just because you are touting something that is just about the same as a BR Disc without much significance in price reduction. For now i just stick with DVD even with a 500+ lines I can still live with it. If the movie production companies don't make a concerted decision anytime soon, your sales ain't gonna go up!; Reply to this comment

Oh I agree as well.
by ylla January 4, 2008 10:45 PM PST: I wasn't commenting that technology doesn't matter I was actually commenting on the need for an indivudual to post over and over again as if their whole life was hanging on a format war (while insulting others or their choices.) To me I don't see the need for someone to take it SO to heart that they are practically salivating when their chosen BRAND or item is winning. That to me is just a bit silly. All I seem to see is "Xbox" insults or "Sony" insults or "Fan Boy" insults - that suggests to me that a person is attached to a "NAME" rather than the particular merits of a technology. Sorry if I didn't make that clear enough.; Reply to this comment View reply
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Just take one dip and END IT!
by sanjayb January 5, 2008 7:56 AM PST: I really don't care who wins the war. I have no preference. I just want it to end.; Reply to this comment

Hello again
by brandonh33 January 5, 2008 8:57 AM PST: Haha ya sorry about the double post. The story behind it is that I found this article first and wrote up the post but then I looked on the front page and found basically the same article only, it was the one everyone was posting on. So I decided to take the cheep way out and just do a copy paste. Sorry about that but I mean seriously why do they have 2 articles? And to one of the posts on here about the 360, I think you were trying to say, correct me if I misunderstood, that if hd-dvd turns out to be a flop microsoft cant just get a blu-ray disk player for the xbox. Well they cant do that because the main supporter behind blu-ray is sony which happens to make the ps3 and they are not going to give that technology to the console that they are competing with. So the 360/Microsoft is stuck with hd-dvd or nothing. And to Ylla, it seems that you posted the same article on here twice too... I guess we are even now. And the reason I support blu-ray is because it is the superior format of choice. Now that profile 1.1 is out blu-ray is capable of doing everything hd-dvd is capable of doing, only it has much more memory under the hood. I am not just choosing a brand name, if hd-dvd had the superior technology I would root for them but the main fact is that some people just dont get is that the biggest factor to a disk is memory. Yes there are other factors like the burn/read speed ect ect. But there is nothing right now that hd-dvd has the blu-ray doesnt. You guys should be happy of the time period I am giving hd-dvd untill its washed up, because it seems that none of the writers of any of the articles give them that much time.; Reply to this comment View all 2 replies
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i did know blu ray would win from day 1
by zackinma January 5, 2008 9:07 AM PST: how did i know that blu ray would win out from day 1. because of the PS3. the PS3 comes with a blu ray player. M$ may have chosen HD-DVD as their format, but you don?t get a player with the 360, you have to pay extra and buy one. (add on) For the price they charge for the player, you can pretty much buy a stand alone HD-DVD player that is of better quality, the Toshiba A30. Now lets discuss how that impacts the numbers when determining who is winning we need to look at total players sold. that after all tells us how many people are going to buy the movies on the format. Blu ray players outsold HD-DVD players 2-1. I submit that is because the PS3 has padded the blu ray players sales figures. For every PS3 sold, it also counts as a blu ray player sold. Even if the person who purchased the PS3 has no intention of using it as a blu ray player. HD-DVD gets no such love from M$?s xbox 360. Hence blu ray will win out in the end. Good decision by sony to include a blu ray player in the PS3. It may have cost them more money to produce the PS3 and they aren't making any profit on the console sales, but they are going to make 10 times more on movie sales and licensing when the format war is over. Thank god the war is coming to an end. We the consumer have suffered for too long with it. Many of us, myself included had to become format neutral to enjoy all the movies we wanted. now in a year what am i supposed to do w/ this HD-DVD player i paid 450.00 for? throw it in the trash i guess.; Reply to this comment View reply
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So what?
by Dogbert January 5, 2008 10:24 AM PST: I was early to adopt the Xbox 360 and I bought a new HD DVD player for Xmas. The primary use of the new HD DVD player will be to play my DVD library. And let me tell you ? You would have to spend a lot off cash to get an ordinary DVD player who would do the job as god as the Toshiba player (Up scaling). As for the Blu-Ray player, I guess I eventually will buy the PS3 and then I will own a Blu-Ray player to. But as for today the 360 have a good line-up of games and the Toshiba player do a great job playing my DVDs. Hopefully the DVD prices will go down while the studios focus on the HD part of things. Great!; Reply to this comment

Blu-Ray? No thanks!
by trekker4life January 5, 2008 11:07 AM PST: Where do you think the money lost due to Sony's 500 million dollar payoff to Warner Brothers will come from? You... the Blu-Ray disc buyers. You won't see it right away, but just wait until HD-DVD dies. The big winner anyway is DVDs with up-convert players. You can hardly tell the difference between HD and up-converted DVD movies, so why waste the money on anything else?; Reply to this comment View reply
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