Blu-ray and HD DVD Discussion Thread

Well, it's too bad HD DVD is done since that's what I decided to invest in early on, but I'd rather have a Blu-ray-only future than a future with both formats eventually supported in all players and all studios releasing titles in both, since as much as I wanted to, I couldn't see HD DVD taking the full win in the end.

Anyway, selling some of my HD DVDs on eBay and in the market for a used 60 gig PS3 now. Already bought all the Pirates movies since I couldn't pass up some good deals, and anticipate being able to go full-on Blu-ray in the coming months. I'm not going to stop buying HD DVDs until they're completely gone since I'm don't care about having some obsolete discs laying around in the future (finally bought Batman Begins and Transformers), but anything that is on both formats I will buy on Blu-ray now.

I'm honestly amazed at how so many claim that the difference between DVD and HD/BD isn't as big of a deal as VHS to DVD. There is a huge, amazing difference. After accepting that the future is Blu, I find joy in going back to looking for deals on old movies and giving thousands of dollars back to movie companies for rebuying stuff in HD that I've already bought before. At least now there will no longer be the worry of investing in the wrong format and having it all be wasted. Digital downloads can't take over this market. I would never buy a single digitally-delivered movie that I can't feel like I truly own or have on a physical disc, and find it absurd that "experts" claim the mass market would adapt such a method of buying movies. I'm curious what the next format could even be like. 1080p with lossless sound is about as good as you can get, so what else could a new format offer other than increased storage space for more special features, multiple lossless language tracks, or combining multiple movies on one disc.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I can understand the average person becoming comfortable with rentals and individual song purchases, but full HD movie downloads for purchase would come at a significantly higher price. Your average person can throw a buck or two away here and there, but I doubt they'll throw away twenty or thirty bucks when the time comes to choose between buying a movie/tv series on a physical disc that they can keep, collect, organize, take to their friend's/family's house, in favor of DRM-filled expensive digital files with heavy restrictions and the risk of hardware failure or other issues essentially taking away their property.

Perhaps the popularity of iPods and digital downloads of music may suggest this isn't true, but I simply cannot see the same thing happen to the movie industry. Problem with music is people just don't care as much as they used to, and not very many people really want to be forced to pay $13 for 12 songs when they only really want 5 songs on the disc. This type of nonsense doesn't happen with movies, and it's just easier and more logical to maintain a library of movies than music CDs.

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