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HD DVD officially dead

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Rex Harrison, Feb 19, 2008.

  1. Pete Incaviglia

    Pete Incaviglia Active Member



    Yes. The big buzz was that whatever the porn industry chose, the rest would follow suit. Like when porn chose VHS over Beta.
     
  2. Pancamo

    Pancamo Active Member

    Wal-Mart chose to only offer Blu-Ray.
     
  3. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    I think Blockbuster and Net Flicks also went Blu-Ray.
     
  4. Pete Incaviglia

    Pete Incaviglia Active Member

    I know Net Flicks did for sure. In fact, I believe they were the first.

    And, as an aside, this really forces the hand of production companies because some chose HiDef DVD and some chose Blue-Ray, not choosing to release their movies in both.
     
  5. fishwrapper

    fishwrapper Active Member

    No. No. No. Netflix offers HDDVD. Trust me.
     
  6. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member



    Yeah, like you really want your porn on HD.
     
  7. Pete Incaviglia

    Pete Incaviglia Active Member

    http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/02/19/blu_ray_takes_the_lead_backed_by_retailers_and_movie_makers/

    Meanwhile, the popular Netflix video rental service will go Blu-ray-only and phase out HD DVD rentals by year-end.
     
  8. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Fair enough.

    All the news coming out of CES this year was about Blu-Ray. The two formats were selling just about equally prior to the convention. Then afterwards it swung to Blu-Ray getting a large majority of the market.
     
  9. fishwrapper

    fishwrapper Active Member

    That's fine. But, you can still receive all the HDDVD rentals you want.
    No doubt, Blu-ray will be the format of the forseeable future.
     
  10. fishwrapper

    fishwrapper Active Member

    Oh. I'm not arguing. You guys are right. I may have misread.
    But, NetFlix still carries HDDVD. Just won't carry new titles in 18 months. They informed me of that by email.
     
  11. fishwrapper

    fishwrapper Active Member

    Sony gets, what Sony wants. Happened 25 years ago with BETA and VHS, even though many say BETA was a better product. (i.e. smaller, cheaper to ship, easier to display, etc.)
     
  12. Rumpleforeskin

    Rumpleforeskin Active Member



    The sperm are so life-like. It's like I'm right there.
     
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