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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jul 18, 2014 15:38:23 GMT -5
I do. Thank God I never had any.
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Jul 18, 2014 15:39:07 GMT -5
Pepperidge Farms remembers
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 15:50:13 GMT -5
Pawn shops with tons of useless players remember
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 15:52:09 GMT -5
Microsoft remembers.
They backed the HD-DVD instead of Blu-Ray on the 360.
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Post by Spider2024 on Jul 18, 2014 15:52:10 GMT -5
I wonder, do later model 360s even recognize them?
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jul 18, 2014 16:04:57 GMT -5
True story: At my bookstore, I ran the DVD section for years; we had a good bit of theft in that section, even from the clearance section. I tried not putting any HD-DVDs out at all, but occasionally I would throw a couple out in the remainder shelves just to fill space. One day, I had a work cart full of DVDs with HD-DVD King Kong (2005) on top. After this one guy browsed through the cart and left, I realized he had stolen the Kong disc. Couple of days later, I'm working around the same spot and he came in again. I went to alert my manager that a known shoplifter was in the store, and when I got back, he had already left and I'll be damned if that Kong disc wasn't sitting right on top of my work cart.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jul 18, 2014 16:08:08 GMT -5
I wonder, do later model 360s even recognize them? Well the 360 never read them itself. It had the little mini-me HD-DVD player you had to plug into the 360. If the later models lacked the port that said player used, then they wouldn't. If they do have the port, then maybe? |
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Post by Hawk Hart on Jul 18, 2014 16:23:13 GMT -5
I remember when you could cop like every HD DVD for like $2 on Amazon and the 360 player for around $20 and my buddy bought a f***load of them. Good times.
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Post by Spider2024 on Jul 18, 2014 16:32:44 GMT -5
I wonder, do later model 360s even recognize them? Well the 360 never read them itself. It had the little mini-me HD-DVD player you had to plug into the 360. If the later models lacked the port that said player used, then they wouldn't. If they do have the port, then maybe? Oh, I never knew the HDDVD player was an add-on, I thought you just pop the disc into the console like the DVDs and music CDs. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 18, 2014 17:00:36 GMT -5
Well the 360 never read them itself. It had the little mini-me HD-DVD player you had to plug into the 360. If the later models lacked the port that said player used, then they wouldn't. If they do have the port, then maybe? Oh, I never knew the HDDVD player was an add-on, I thought you just pop the disc into the console like the DVDs and music CDs. Nope, it wasn't a native player. |
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Post by kidglov3s on Jul 18, 2014 17:16:43 GMT -5
HD-DVD wasn't all that bad, brought some cool movies into homes on disc in 1080p years before they would appear on Blu-ray.    Dune wouldn't be released on Blu-ray in the US until 2010, Mallrats until a few months ago, and there's still no domestic Blu-ray for Streets of Fire (though there were international releases last year that essentially reused the mediocre HD-DVD transfer). Really the problem wasn't with HD-DVD so much as it was with the companies getting greedy and not going in on a unified standard from the beginning. |
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Post by turkeysandwich on Jul 18, 2014 17:44:13 GMT -5
I've still got about 50 of them. I have a HD-DVD/Blu Ray duel player, so until that dies I'm not going to upgrade them to Blu. Most of the Kubrick's I have are HD-DVD, I have a lot of movies on HD-DVD I really had no interest in, mostly because I would buy them because I could find them for $1 and $2 a piece once the format died.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Jul 18, 2014 17:53:47 GMT -5
The movie player add-ons for Xbox are dumber than the Sega CD and 32X ad-ons for the Genesis because you COULD just go out and get a stand alone DVD and Blu Ray player.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 18, 2014 17:59:59 GMT -5
The movie player add-ons for Xbox are dumber than the Sega CD and 32X ad-ons for the Genesis because you COULD just go out and get a stand alone DVD and Blu Ray player. WEll you didn't need it for a DVD player. But at the time even getting the console and add on was cheaper than buying a Blu Ray player. |
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Post by Von Wagner's Brownies on Jul 18, 2014 18:02:02 GMT -5
I actually got Hot Rod on HD DVD as a Christmas present........I still have yet to see that movie.
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Post by xCompackx on Jul 18, 2014 19:40:34 GMT -5
Was there any real difference between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray? I remember the commercials for the HD-DVD players but I don't remember them ever saying what the benefit to choosing them over Blu-Ray was, which kinda seems like the point when you're trying to compete.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jul 18, 2014 20:12:39 GMT -5
my friend bought one from the Blockbuster we worked at for like 30$ and then went to Best Buy and bought an assload of them on the cheap when the format failed.
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Post by kidglov3s on Jul 18, 2014 20:17:09 GMT -5
Was there any real difference between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray? I remember the commercials for the HD-DVD players but I don't remember them ever saying what the benefit to choosing them over Blu-Ray was, which kinda seems like the point when you're trying to compete. Huge difference in storage capacity, with HD-DVD having around 15gb per layer and Blu-ray around 25gb per layer. The greater storage capacity was why I chose Blu-ray as more likely to win as things really got started with them around 2005. The counterpoint to this was apparently "Initial indications were that DVD Forum member Warner Bros. and other movie content production companies were firmly in the HD-DVD camp, since it would allow Hollywood studios to repurpose their content one more time without having first to incur high investment costs in transitioning to brand-new replication equipment. In effect, the similarity between HD-DVD and the then current DVD manufacturing processes made it much less expensive to adapt production lines for producing HD-DVDs than it would be to adapt for BD production." www.pctechguide.com/blu-ray/blu-ray-vs-hd-dvd-the-war-of-the-blue-laser-optical-disks |
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Post by xCompackx on Jul 18, 2014 20:33:01 GMT -5
Was there any real difference between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray? I remember the commercials for the HD-DVD players but I don't remember them ever saying what the benefit to choosing them over Blu-Ray was, which kinda seems like the point when you're trying to compete. Huge difference in storage capacity, with HD-DVD having around 15gb per layer and Blu-ray around 25gb per layer. The greater storage capacity was why I chose Blu-ray as more likely to win as things really got started with them around 2005. The counterpoint to this was apparently "Initial indications were that DVD Forum member Warner Bros. and other movie content production companies were firmly in the HD-DVD camp, since it would allow Hollywood studios to repurpose their content one more time without having first to incur high investment costs in transitioning to brand-new replication equipment. In effect, the similarity between HD-DVD and the then current DVD manufacturing processes made it much less expensive to adapt production lines for producing HD-DVDs than it would be to adapt for BD production." www.pctechguide.com/blu-ray/blu-ray-vs-hd-dvd-the-war-of-the-blue-laser-optical-disksI see, thanks. In that case, I can see why some movie studios were so behind HD-DVD, but the smaller storage compared to Blu-Ray doesn't seem very useful. |
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Post by turkeysandwich on Jul 18, 2014 22:00:49 GMT -5
I remember thinking at the time that HD-DVD would win out because when I would talk about it to people who really weren't in the know, they understood the concept of a "high definition DVD" (the name itself tells you it's a dvd, but it makes the picture high definition) than having to to explain what a blu-ray was.
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