Sony is notorious for pushing their proprietary formats (can you say Beta Max, UMD?). HD DVD is cheaper to make, buy and support (I can get combo HD DVDs that play on regular DVD players. I can't do that with Blu Ray!! You are denying yourself hugh sales by not supporting HD DVD as well. Let the consumer decide the format war, not studios!!!
To me it's obvious that HDDVD is the wave of the future. More standardization, Sony has a long list of failures, EL Cassette, MiniDisc, Atrac, the Connect Music store, HDDVD is the evolution we need for HI DEF, it's time to make Christmas happy again and have only ONE Standard HDDVD.
HD-DVD is the clear winner. Lower production costs, lower priced players... and so far superior picture. It's the natural progression from DVD whereas Blu-Ray is not. It's easy for the non-techie consumer to tell that HD-DVD is the upgrade over conventional DVD. Blu-Ray... what's that?
because of affordability and quality. What reason is there for slightly higher storage capacity (irrelevent when considering the picture quality) and a 50% price premium?
I think that if all studio suport the 2 format no one exept pepole that are force to buy bluray in the ps3 would care about bluray and would buy hd-dvd because of the price
It is the more consumer-friendly format of the two. None of our players will have to be replaced as new specs are rolled out, the players are significantly cheaper, and the picture quality actually slants HD-DVD slightly according to the more popular disc review sites, despite Blu-Ray's capacity advantage.
Consider that everyone who buys an HD-DVD player buys HD-DVD's and how well the DVD's are selling in comparison. You have nothing to lose as its more cost effective to produce on HD and I, for one, look foward to having a wider variety of movies to select from in the future without having to buy 2 players.
I hope that studios such as Disney and Fox start making movies for HD DVD, just like Paramount/Dreamworks made the exclusive move. It would be a good decision to have either exclusive or dual backing of both players.
There is enough proof that HD DVD and Blu Ray can both become a new format in its own right. There is enough owners of the new hardware for each side of the war. Please bring 20th Century Fox and Disney to HD DVD. You are loosing on sales if you wont consider it!
Lionsgate is hurting their sales by not releasing on HD Dvd. I'm a hardcore gamer and I own a xbox 360 not a ps3 and I have the Hd Dvd add on. All I watch is Horror and Sci-fi movies and I can't buy any Loinsgate movies in HD.I have lots of friends who are also 360 owners who also have the same issue I have. Broke ass gamers aren't going to buy a blue ray player just for lionsgate films. The xbox 360 add on is cheep. So you can still get HD Dvd with out spending an arm and leg, and still have money for video games. In the end a gamer will go with out movies not video games your really hurting your sale. Just about every movie I go to see in the theaters is a Lionsgate film that I cant buy now.I need Saw on HD Dvd !!!!
I have a huge library of regular DVDs and have started buying only HD DVDs. Please consider releasing movies in both formats. Only then, can we see the real winner to this format war.
I will not let corporate companies pull me in two different directions. Untill these two can get their shit together and either eliminate one of the options or produce a FULL access Dual player (meaning all disk options are a availible) or produce a disk that is HDDVD on one side and Blu Ray on the other I WILL NOT BUY EITHER!!! I will by a HD TV but i will not buy any of this crap till they can figure out how to remove their head from their ass. LISTEN TO THE PAST THE FORMAT WAR OF CD- R's still has messed up this entire system we have today
I currently have both types of player, HD DVD and Bluray and IO prefer the HD DVD format. Please release yoyr movies on HD DVD as I will not purchase them for the Bluray format.
Please choose HD DVD this is truly the only HD support that should be made as the format offers High Def viewing to all and teh Average Joe that is price concious is going to take notice of this when making their High Def disk buying purchases.
