The war is over Toshiba quits! Boooyah

[WingZ]

Alright now please put Transformers on blu ray!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080219/ap_on_bi_ge/japan_toshiba


I'll bet this stings Microsoft something fierce!

 

[SilverStone05]

Meh....they'll figure out a way to make some money off of this.

 

[Ultraman]

I'm glad this format war is finally over. Now I can go buy that PS3 I've been wanting to get :smile:

 

[drivingnirvana]

Wth do I do with my 360 add-on if Transformers comes on Bluray?


I'm soooooo glad I got rid of all my 10 HD-DVD's at a good price while the war was at its peak, I saw the end :biggrin:


It think it's time, for those with HD-DVD players, to make some high def movie bargains. Think a lot of chains will be dumping them? Hope so.

 

[WingZ]

Wth do I do with my 360 add-on if Transformers comes on Bluray?


I'm soooooo glad I got rid of all my 10 HD-DVD's at a good price while the war was at its peak, I saw the end :biggrin:


It think it's time, for those with HD-DVD players, to make some high def movie bargains. Think a lot of chains will be dumping them? Hope so.

+1

I've got a Sega Saturn that needs some company:biggrin:

 

[drivingnirvana]

I've got a Sega Saturn that needs some company:biggrin:

lol :biggrin: No really, post HD-DVD bargains everybody, if you see dumping on the webshops!!

 

[NSXrunner]

I'm glad this format war is finally over. Now I can go buy that PS3 I've been wanting to get :smile:

+1 hehe :biggrin:

 

[akira3d]

Yea! I knew Blu-ray would win...it was just a matter of time!

 

[skynet0419]

I always preferred Blu-Ray

 

[Synthesis]

called it

 

[Juice]

If M$ had packed HD-DVD into the X-BOX 360, this outcome would have been very different!

For once, SONY made a wise move. Still, I have come to despise SONY.

 

[4AU4LIFE]

I'm glad this format war is finally over. Now I can go buy that PS3 I've been wanting to get :smile:

I'm with ya !!

 

[matteni]

Actually I believe Sony may be the bigger looser of the two. With AppleTV and other HD (and near HD download services) on the way it won't matter for long. They were just arranging lawn chairs on the Titanic in the end.

Who wants to go to a store or wait for Netflix for a disk you can lose, damage, have to organize, pack, etc when we are on the verge of HD download services and 1TB optical drives to store them on when and if you want to.

Sony lost a LOT of money putting BlueRay on PS3 (which they lose money every time someone buys one). People are not going to replace their collection like they did from vinyl to CD or VHS to DVD. Sony bought the victory but in the end Toshiba has better opportunities and this is all temporary.

Our kids will ask us "dad do you remember when you used to have to buy movies and software on small disks?". We will wonder how we ever got through these dark tech times!

 

[Juice]

I agree with you fully, but others on here will fight you, as they did me in another thread on the same subject. Some people on here think hard media will live on forever.

Whatever.

 

[WingZ]

Actually I believe Sony may be the bigger looser of the two. With AppleTV and other HD (and near HD download services) on the way it won't matter for long. They were just arranging lawn chairs on the Titanic in the end.

Who wants to go to a store or wait for Netflix for a disk you can lose, damage, have to organize, pack, etc when we are on the verge of HD download services and 1TB optical drives to store them on when and if you want to.

Sony lost a LOT of money putting BlueRay on PS3 (which they lose money every time someone buys one). People are not going to replace their collection like they did from vinyl to CD or VHS to DVD. Sony bought the victory but in the end Toshiba has better opportunities and this is all temporary.

Our kids will ask us "dad do you remember when you used to have to buy movies and software on small disks?". We will wonder how we ever got through these dark tech times!

No people don't have to replace their old dvds as PS3 will upgrade to hd quality. Just depends on what cord your using. PS3 Also has upgradeable HD so you can download games and movies. From what I've heard their setting up the PS store so that soon people will be able buy movies from the playstation store. So basically it will be doing the same thing as Apple TV.

The PS3 will be a very usable multi media center for awhile. Your right of course everything changes.

 

[akira3d]

Don't forget that Blu-ray will also have quite a bit of life as a data storage medium. It has certainly had my vote for its larger capacity (over HD-DVD)...can't wait until the recordable flavor becomes as affordable as DVD-R. Unfortunately, my photo archives will soon exceed the capacity of a BD50 (and that's just for the JPEG files).

I'm really not sure why Microsoft didn't opt for either of the HD DVD formats as its data drive...heck, I'm still perplexed as to why they didn't include a hard drive with the 360.

HD online movie distribution will become reality, but requires high bandwidth Internet access. I once downloaded a 1080p version of Top Gear...and it took a few days! I'm sure downloads / streaming will eventually become the model of choice...as I'm sure will be the case for video games as well. But, for now, I'd much rather have the physical media in hand. I'm not selling my CDs either...they've just become backups for the MP3s I've been ripping to my 2TB RAID.

 

[Tony Montoya]

I finally bought an HD DVD player this week. It's like the NSX of DVD players.

 

[robr]

Sony bought the victory but in the end Toshiba has better opportunities and this is all temporary.

not to mention toshiba was one of the three co-developers of the cell processor in the PS3. they won either way.

 

[WingZ]

I finally bought an HD DVD player this week. It's like the NSX of DVD players.

Why because it got cancelled?:biggrin:

 

[ajnsx]

+1

I've got a Sega Saturn that needs some company:biggrin:

Along with my dreamcast, megadrive mega cd, 3do, pc engine and atari Jaguar.:biggrin:

 

[DocL]

Now you can get your XBOX HD-DVD player with six free movies for $50.