To HD-DVD or NOT HD-DVD

[Marco33]

Since you need an HDTV to take advantage of the "new" HD-DVD format (yes, I'm sure you can watch it on a regular TV) and HDTV's hold a small % of the market, I don't see the HD-DVD format taking off.

I do own an HDTV but I am NOT excited about re-buying my favorite movies over again in HD-DVD format. I think a lot of consummers will feel the same.

[ChrisX]

It is too early to say whether HD-DVD will or won't take off. Blu-ray is the other DVD recording format.

There will be a war of differing formats, Blu-ray and HD-DVD recorders and they differ in some important ways.

One got a bigger recording capacity and the other with today’s DVDs.

Check out: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2004-02-18-dvd-feud_x.htm

I feel HD-DVD got the edge due to having backward compatibility with today's DVDs. However, this one might end up just like the Beta VCR.

I’ll go for HD-DVD for the moment.

[jeex]

i said this before, and i'll say it again..

hd-dvd will turn in to what laser disc did.. although laser disc had superiour audio & video quality while vhs was around, people had adopted vhs.. dvd has been around, what almost 10 years? i say its got atleast another 10-15 years before something else comes around and dethrones it..

dvd will be even more popular once dual layer burners come out.. and i'm pretty sure someone will create some free software to copy your dual layer discs (dvd decrypter)..

vhs looked okay on regular tv's, but compared to dvd it was crap on a stick.. the same will hold true with hd-dvd & dvd on hdtv's..

[ChrisX]

I do own an HDTV but I am NOT excited about re-buying my favorite movies over again in HD-DVD format.

You won't need to re-buy your favourite movies over again as a HD-DVD recorder can play them.

This is one advantage that HD-DVD got over Blu-ray.

Check out: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2004-02-18-dvd-feud_x.htm

Chris

[ChrisX]

DVD will be even more popular once dual layer burners come out..

This is what I am waiting for, a dual layered DVD burner.

This will be a double time or a double data space for me.

[Rookie64]

Since you need an HDTV to take advantage of the "new" HD-DVD format (yes, I'm sure you can watch it on a regular TV) and HDTV's hold a small % of the market, I don't see the HD-DVD format taking off.

I do own an HDTV but I am NOT excited about re-buying my favorite movies over again in HD-DVD format. I think a lot of consummers will feel the same.

I've been collecting for 25 years, and I'd say only about 20% of my collection is even available on DVD...so it'd be an impossible task to replace it all with HD-DVD. I'm also not too thrilled with the idea of having to replace all my DVDs.
It's gonna take a good few years to win me over with HD TV - right now, I'm not interested.


I think it's gonna stay in the minority for quite some time.

I wasn't won over by Laser discs in the '80s either - and happy I never bothered with that.

[Marco33]

You won't need to re-buy your favourite movies over again as a HD-DVD recorder can play them.

I didn't mean to imply I would buy them over because I wouldn't be able to play my regular dvd's. I just ment I wouldnt buy them again cause I already have them in DVD.

I did start collecting way back when VHS was the "thing". However, I did realize very quickly that tapes would not last. The quality would drop every time you watched them.

For all intents and purposes, dvd's will last forever. That's why I made the inverstment to start collecting them. Since they will last a long time, I don't see a need to re-buy them again.

JeeX has the right idea. HD-DVD will go the way of the Laser Disk. HD-DVD is what dvd's SHOULD have been 10 years ago. Consummers are set in their ways, They will stay with DVD. I know I will.

[ChrisX]

You won't need to re-buy your favourite movies over again as a HD-DVD recorder can play them.

I didn't mean to imply I would buy them over because I wouldn't be able to play my regular dvd's. I just ment I wouldnt buy them again cause I already have them in DVD.

I see what you mean, you wouldn't want to re-buy on what you already own DVDs into HD-DVD.

To re-buy them would be a waste of money and I've done this on several occasions during a 20 year period just like this: Beta, then VHS, then LD and then upgrade to DVD.

I don’t think I’ll ever re-buy them into HD-DVD and enough is enough on re-buying the same titles over and over again.

Better to buy never before seen films on HD-DVD.

[Marco33]

Better to buy never before seen films on HD-DVD.

I can see that.

I don't see myself backing up HD-DVD's though.

How about you?

[ChrisX]

I don't see myself backing up HD-DVD's though.

How about you?

Not me, I'll be getting a dual layered DVD burner for the PC and I am not even considering a digital video recorder as yet.

I rarely record anything from TV and I am still on the good old VHS VCR.

[Faustus]

Not gonna take off. The difference is just not enough for your average consumer. Its the next LD.

[flaninacupboard]

for me there's no real point to a HD system.

Anything not shot on a hires format won't benfit from HD-DVD. a good example, i've been buying the DVD's of Babylon 5 as they've come out. the show was shot on a few formats, seemingly 35mm film, 16mm film, some form of video and then the CG scenes. the 35mm scenes look good on DVD, but you can tell it's film. the 16mm scenes are quite grainy, the scenes on video are plain horrible. they're soft, the colours aren't good, they're just generally crap. worth buying on HD-DVD? no way.

In fact the only thing i would be interested to see on HD-DVD would be the lord of the rings films. nothing in the last decade has been as visually appealing or detailed. i nearly suggested the matrix as well, but thinking about it, anything above DVD quality would be a distraction - the problems with effects would become -very- apparent.

One area i can see HD being useful is games though. you could aim better, see further ahead in driving games, and there'd be less jaggies.

[kamuixtv]

For data storage, yes for HD-DVD or blu-ray.

[Hardcoreruss]

If you ask me this format is too close timewise to when dvd came out. Everyone has just switched over to dvd and will not want to buy new hardware and all the films again.

I think we will start seeing a new format between 2010 and 2015 take over properly from dvd.

As others say this will be the new laserdisc.

[Conquest10]

Yup, too soon. People that got their HDTVs and need their fix will run out and buy these. But is it really worth it? Like flan said, there aren't too many out there that are worth going up to HD for. I guess if you want to see the film grain even clearer.

[Dr. DOS]

In 5 years ..... whether Bluray or HDDVD's something will be out there for a 20k bitrate. However the encoding chips will need liquid nitrogen cooling towers to keep them from melting.