[360] $1.99 360 HD-DVD Player

Originally Posted by Cat9

So it looks like this thing is going to go down in price fast. ($50 at the moment). Is there a good reason I should pick this up at this point? Will it work on a PC, and for other uses?

Take a look in your local stores. See how many linear metres of racking they devote to Blu-Ray. Take careful note how it's about four times as much as they devote to HD-DVD. There's no reason to get this dying format. There may be a few exclusives now, but Laser Disc had exclusives too. For the most part they all got released on DVD later.

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Originally Posted by Megalith

Personally, I want people to buy it just so they can get a laugh at how many titles on HD-DVD have better quality and features than the Blu-ray versions.

Assuming for the sake of discussion that this is true, would you put that down to poor quality transfers which could have been improved by greater expertise or to the superiority of HD-DVD?

I'm curious to know what you think. Will we reflect on HD-DVD as the Betamax of its time, or was it a technical failure as well as a commercial failure?

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