How big of a party should the world throw when HD-DVD is finally dead ????

And by the way, genius..... your calendar is off by a week.....

Your messages are showing up posted on January 20th







"HD-DVD Suxx" HurrayforBlu-Ray.com wrote in message
. ..
I hope the entire planet throws a big-ass party the day HD-DVD is dead,
dead, ****ing DEAD!!!! Good riddance!

VHS took years to kill off Betamax........but now Sony has sweet revenge
and HD-DVD wont even live to see the end of 2008!!!

REJOICE!

P.S. - HD-DVD is same garbage as those ****ty pay-per-view DIVX disc
players Circuit City was trying to sell a few years back

I hope the entire planet throws a big-ass party the day HD-DVD is dead, dead,
****ing DEAD!!!! Good riddance!

VHS took years to kill off Betamax........but now Sony has sweet revenge and
HD-DVD wont even live to see the end of 2008!!!

REJOICE!

P.S. - HD-DVD is same garbage as those ****ty pay-per-view DIVX disc players
Circuit City was trying to sell a few years back

"HD-DVD Suxx" HurrayforBlu-Ray.com wrote in message
. ..
I hope the entire planet throws a big-ass party the day HD-DVD is dead,
dead, ****ing DEAD!!!! Good riddance!

VHS took years to kill off Betamax........but now Sony has sweet revenge
and HD-DVD wont even live to see the end of 2008!!!

REJOICE!

P.S. - HD-DVD is same garbage as those ****ty pay-per-view DIVX disc
players Circuit City was trying to sell a few years back
================================
How big a party will you throw when you find out your 1.0
Blue Ray player will not play any features on newer discs?

"HD-DVD Suxx" HurrayforBlu-Ray.com wrote in message
. ..
So, what are you going to buy: Blu-Ray 1.0, Blu-Ray 1.1, Blu-Ray 1.2,
Blu-Ray 2.0 ... ? Sony loves format wars so much they're going to have
one
with themselves!


****.....I hope you are kidding!

============================
Not at all.
Players cannot be upgraded and 1.1 is here
and 2.0 is coming soon.

Features on the new discs will NOT play on your player.

Good luck.

In article ,
"Richard C." wrote:

"HD-DVD Suxx" HurrayforBlu-Ray.com wrote in message
. ..
So, what are you going to buy: Blu-Ray 1.0, Blu-Ray 1.1, Blu-Ray 1.2,
Blu-Ray 2.0 ... ? Sony loves format wars so much they're going to have
one
with themselves!


****.....I hope you are kidding!

============================
Not at all.
Players cannot be upgraded and 1.1 is here
and 2.0 is coming soon.

Features on the new discs will NOT play on your player.

Good luck.

but the movie still will...

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:18:40 -0800, Richard C. wrote:

"HD-DVD Suxx" HurrayforBlu-Ray.com wrote in message
. ..
So, what are you going to buy: Blu-Ray 1.0, Blu-Ray 1.1, Blu-Ray 1.2,
Blu-Ray 2.0 ... ? Sony loves format wars so much they're going to have
one
with themselves!


****.....I hope you are kidding!

============================
Not at all.
Players cannot be upgraded and 1.1 is here and 2.0 is coming soon.

Features on the new discs will NOT play on your player.

Good luck.

It's not just features that they'll lose. The new 2.0 disc won't play
properly at all from what I read. So they're planning on doing one
version for 2.0 players and another for 1.1 players. The status of 1.0
players was that neither of these new disc would play properly in them
IIRC. To be on the safe side, I'd certainly wait til the 2.0 players come
out. Xbox drives are upgradeable.

--
Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org
My Tivo Experience http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/tivo.htm
Tivo HD/S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm
AMD cpu help http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php

"Lloyd Parsons" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Richard C." wrote:

"HD-DVD Suxx" HurrayforBlu-Ray.com wrote in message
. ..
So, what are you going to buy: Blu-Ray 1.0, Blu-Ray 1.1, Blu-Ray 1.2,
Blu-Ray 2.0 ... ? Sony loves format wars so much they're going to have
one
with themselves!


****.....I hope you are kidding!

============================
Not at all.
Players cannot be upgraded and 1.1 is here
and 2.0 is coming soon.

Features on the new discs will NOT play on your player.

Good luck.

but the movie still will...

==================
Maybe.................

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:36:26 -0800, Richard C. wrote:

"Lloyd Parsons" wrote in message
...
In article , "Richard C."
wrote:

"HD-DVD Suxx" HurrayforBlu-Ray.com wrote in message
. ..
So, what are you going to buy: Blu-Ray 1.0, Blu-Ray 1.1, Blu-Ray
1.2, Blu-Ray 2.0 ... ? Sony loves format wars so much they're going
to have one
with themselves!

****.....I hope you are kidding!

Not at all.
Players cannot be upgraded and 1.1 is here and 2.0 is coming soon.
Features on the new discs will NOT play on your player.

but the movie still will...

Maybe.................

1.1 and 2.0 players will use difference format disc. Only 2.0 players
will play the 2.0 format disc. It's not clear to me if the 1.0 players
will play the 1.1 disc or if they also will need there own format.
Maybe you can make out what they're saying. I know a lot of people are
buying these beta units still and 2.0 (a final release) isn't due out til
October 2008. And I don't think most of them realize what they are buying
isn't even recommended by the BDA group. There's going to be a lot of
****ed off people before this is over.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Blur...nto/1199841379

--
Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org
My Tivo Experience http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/tivo.htm
Tivo HD/S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm
AMD cpu help http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php

"Jim" jimmy AT hotmail.com wrote in message
...

I never have understood the emotional attachment and personal sway people
show when discussing electronic hardware.
Do they own stock in companies involved? Are they part of a competing
development team?
What causes it to become personal and starts the insults flying?

Sometimes there are good reasons, but the supporters of BluRay don't really
have many good ones, in my opinion.

Some reasons people like HD DVD are similar to why some people like
open-source software (such as Linux): more control for the user/consumer,
not shackled or spied on by major corporations (at least as much). Blu Ray
has more DRM and region coding and less consumer-friendly features than HD
DVD (as well as higher manufacturing costs for both discs and players, which
would likely lead to a persistent slight increase in prices compared to HD
DVD, minus the competition between them). At least for now, Blu Ray is also
appearantly much more difficult and time-consuming for individual digital
filmmakers to encode movies for. In addition, the Blu Ray spec is still a
moving target with lots of existing and impending incompatibilities, and
lots more reported problems with playback and features not functioning
compared to HD DVD. Basically, it's still not feature-complete, and those
features that are supposedly complet are not fully tested or refined, so
anyone buying a Blu Ray player now (other than possibly the PS3) is likely
to be disappointed in the future (if not right away). People don't like to
be conned, which is largely what's happening with Blu Ray being pushed out
prematurely.

In exchange, Blu Ray has slightly higher capacity (not much of an issue for
movies, as it appears HD DVD has sufficient capacity for great-looking
hi-def movies + extras, and still has the option of more layers in the
future) and bitrate (not an issue at all for hi-def movie playback, either
is sufficient). All things considered, I could see how Blu Ray might be a
somewhat better recordable medium for data storage (ie, computer backup),
which has nothing really to do with consumer playback of pre-recorded
movies, but that's about it.

So those backing HD DVD are concerned, at least in a small way, about the
direction of our society, more than the pure technology. And since consumer
adoption of technology often works sort of like a landslide, momentum in the
direciton of Blu Ray could doom us all to more "shackled and spied on" media
servitude, rather than a direction of increasing freedom of creativity and
entertainment.