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No. Im still content with the everyday dvd. Maybe next year when the price of the set tops go down.
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I'll wait until there's some compelling reason. From what I've read so far it might be a loooooong wait.
Edit: Yippie, a short poll for the front page."Shut up Wesley!" -- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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Wow! 85% so far will wait! I am shocked. I guess I shouldn't be though, after all the trouble settling on a single standard and all the DRM nonsense. I am waiting. I bet they will both fail unless the DRM is removed. People like to *own* the movie they just bought.
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It depends on features and price. If there isn't alot of features or the price is over a grand for a decent one I'll probably wait. I do plan on getting one at some point this year though.
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Where's the no, never? :P Not unless they force out DVD as DVD has done with VHS. I'm still not convinced yet they'll be any more popular than SVHS was compared to VHS.
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Originally Posted by lumis
i plan on getting a revolution on launch day though..still a sucker for nintendo.LifeStudies 1.01 - The Angle Of The Dangle Is Indirectly Proportionate To The Heat Of The Beat,Provided The Mass Of The Ass Is Constant. -
No, I will wait
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86% of people that voted either are waiting or don't know what it is (or are just being sarcastic ) this tells me that the companies need to iron out things, specifically DRM......i think one of the main reasons that dvd was such a success is primarily because it can be copied relatively easily for the most part.......i think if there was a known way to copy the discs, that poll would swing considerably in a differant direction.....
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So assume most of you have don't have a 1080p projector/ tv...
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A newly built WalMart by my neighbourhood..
Every second person is walking out with a cheaply priced DVD player..
I have a hard time believing the average Joe, is gonna run out and buy himself an HD DVD player anytime soon... -
No way. I've been moving away from discs and to HD (hard drive) storage, then using the EyeHome to play everything to my TV.
Of course, Apple will have all of this integrated in the next "mini". -
Originally Posted by Baldrick
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My "HDTV" is an 800x600 projector connected to my PC. It's a significant improvement over SDTV, but not quite HDTV. I love HDTV, I want it to grow in popularity, but I want a better way to archive it rather than Blueray or DVDHD. Too bad DVHS didn't take off. It seems ideal except for being on tape. Maybe that's why it failed.
Darryl -
I'm very excited for HD-DVD and Blue Ray but hardware prices are going to be way too high this year since it is the 1st year and I don't make all that much money so I will be waiting.
I did just buy a 51" 16x9 HDTV for Christmas 2005 so maybe I'll get HD-DVD or Blue Ray as a Christmas 2006 present (to myself) but most likely I will wait until sometime in 2007 ... perhaps my tax return that year.
I will definately be buying fewer regular DVD Video releases. In fact I recently made the decision to only buy "fringe" titles such as imports or those released by small labels. I'm into horror movies so that accounts for a lot of releases.
But Hollywood blockbusters on DVD Video ... not for me as this stuff will be comming out on HD-DVD and Blue Ray. I also will definately hold off on any double dips as I noticed there are some re-releases in the works (a bunch of Stanely Kubrick stuff is comming out again soon which is wave 3 now for regular DVD Video).
I'll get by for now by renting those big studio DVD Video releases then buy the HD-DVD and/or Blue Ray version once I get a player.
So for me no HD-DVD or Blue Ray in 2006 and as for regular DVD Videos I will be renting more and buying less.
- John "FulciLives" Coleman"The eyes are the first thing that you have to destroy ... because they have seen too many bad things" - Lucio Fulci
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Nope...probably never will. I don't even have 5.1 and do not long for 5.1 or surround sound. There are much more important things in life.
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Originally Posted by hech54
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I am curious though ... for those who intend to get HD-DVD and/or Blue Ray ... even if you don't intend to get it RIGHT AWAY ...
Is this changing your buying behavior now with regular DVD Video discs?
As I said I will not be buying any DVD Video release that is on a major label (Warner Bros, Fox, MGM, Universal, etc.) because we all know that they will be re-releasing everything on HD-DVD and/or Blue Ray so why buy it now when you know that you will be buying HD-DVD and/or Blue Ray even if you plan to hold off the first year.
I'll be renting much much more and only buying "fringe" titles such as those released on small lables or maybe some imports of stuff you can't buy in the USA.
- John "FulciLives" Coleman"The eyes are the first thing that you have to destroy ... because they have seen too many bad things" - Lucio Fulci
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Originally Posted by FulciLives
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Originally Posted by Baldrick
I take it you are not joking?
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No sale here. I'm still waiting for HDTV to drop in price to a reasonable level. Maybe when most of the programming I watch is in HD format... Wait... The movies I watch are all form pre widescreen days and thus are 4:3 ratio to start. I watch a few TV Shows... I suspect that they are shot widescreen for the HD feeds and also that the action is planned for a 4:3 SD Tv set since that is most of the audience right now.
Lately I've been watching old British TV/Movies off of DVD. The Sweeney, Dad's Army, A bunch of old Sid James series, 2 point 4 Childern, Two in Clover, And the ever popular Carry On movies series. Red Dwarf, Brittas Empire, Thin Blu Line etc. All as far as I know in Sd ratio and for that my 32" TV is fine... And sized properly for the room it is in.
So No new format for me.
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Originally Posted by TBoneit
I was looking at these recently as I was shopping for a HDTV this past holiday season.
I did end up going with a 16x9 HDTV eventhough I thought I would hate the bars on the side of 4:3 material but as it turns out it really doesn't bother me much at all.
My only slight regret is that my HDTV cannot do 1080p but right now very few HDTV's can do 1080p and those that do are far more expensive than what I bought due to what I could afford.
Since the HD-DVD and Blue Ray formats support 1080p my suggestion to those who have yet to buy an HDTV is to wait a bit longer as I imagine HDTV's capable of 1080p will become more common (read cheaper) but as of now they are damn expensive.
Although having said that I highly doubt that 1080p "down coverted to" 1080i will look "bad" ... just not as "good" as it could.
- John "FulciLives" Coleman"The eyes are the first thing that you have to destroy ... because they have seen too many bad things" - Lucio Fulci
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No, I wait until the film industry offers all movies as DRM-free HDTV internet download. Recording HDTV from DVB-S would also be O.K. Then I will store my complete audio/video collection on HDD or HVD (holographic versatile disk) and play it via a streaming client.
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Nope! No HDMI or DVI on my current HDTV set, only Component. I can't afford to upgrade both.
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DRM protected BluRay and HD-DVD will have the same success as SACD and DVD-Audio.
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Originally Posted by LloydAZ
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Unfortunately the Spatz box, that decrypted HDMI, will no longer be sold because Spatz Tec wants to avoid a lawsuit.
http://not-hdtv-ready.pixelzauber.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=233&view=previous&sid=3063...04cd4c9cb3a346 -
Originally Posted by FulciLives
Perhaps with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD these will finally come out in digital form? If so, that might be some incentive, but as it is now one of the reasons I do any video conversion at all is to back-up some of my obscure VHS and Laserdisc releases onto DVD so they'll stay viewable until somebody actually releases the movies I've been waiting for.
A few examples of movies I'm still waiting for on DVD that I fortunately have on VHS and/or Laserdisc:
* That Hamilton Woman (Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh)
* Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
* Bedazzled - in NTSC, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore original
* The Incredible Shrinking Man
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Originally Posted by Guy_Fawkes
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