Comments on: Death blow to HD-DVD? Target chooses Blu-Ray

By: FG

FG — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:03:43 +0000

I avoid shopping target 100% of the time beings they do not support our vets over homosexuals and/or Sony also gets avoided for just plain ignorance Trying to pull a microsoft on everyone with the blue ray like they did back with the CD compact disc . NO one company should have control over any one product with 100% control . This is why multiple format players is the publics best choice , Everyone should boycott both these formats and HDTV’s altogether .. Until a organization can develope a multi format player that can play every format . I am not rebuying all my media all over again for the 3rd time .. I will keep right on using what I have until I die . This useless buying of Useless products that nobody needs is the most childish thing Ive the general public argue over since beta vs Vhs or 8 track vs cassette . it’s just stupid !!

By: FarmerBob

FarmerBob — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:12:31 +0000

How can you equate LaserDiscs with Beta tape. Two different genres and two different things. LaserDisc was not a flop as Beta was. It was just a precursor to DVD. It had it’s time and place. But was never pushed aside by another format. I still have a top-of-line Pioneer LD player and it gives about the same that I get from DVD. Including Optical out for multichannel audio.

If there is a video format graveyard? Then isn’t it the DVD that is heading for it too? And what about VHS?

By: joeylang

joeylang — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:41:54 +0000

Blu-ray all the way. i have a ps3 and i have a few blu ray movies and they look incredible. I wouldnt have either if it wasnt for the ps3, but i am pulling for sony just because i feel they ahve had a tough string of things recently and need a win on their hands. I hope ps3 and blu-ray do incredably well this holiday season.

By: betches

betches — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:22:13 +0000

im getting the 300 on blu ray

By: Kevin®

Kevin® — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:52:26 +0000

Neither! I’ll wait till the price is reasonable and then buy whichever format still exist. Like it was said earlier, two formats is just dumb. Fanboys need to get a life. Lets get a standard HD format already.

By: alpine

alpine — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:26:34 +0000

I hope that this is wrong. HD-DVD all the way. I hope Sony and their blu-ray crash and burn while the playstation sinks into oblivion!

By: August

August — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:39:06 +0000

Sigh…

Another day, another inaccurate BGR story.

Keep ‘em coming.

By: mikeyp

mikeyp — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:51:55 +0000

ppcmd they both can play standard dvd

i choose online delivery rather that these.

By: Wild Bill

Wild Bill — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:26:43 +0000

Didnt Blockbuster opt for BlueRay over HD-DVD too?

So HD-DVD is now the BetaMax of the hi-res DVD’s.

—* Bill

By: Charlesa

Charlesa — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:23:43 +0000

Here’s to The Simpson’s Movie on Blu-Ray this November!

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:59:00 +0000

You know,

I wish this BR vs. HDDVD would produce a winner already. I’m not dropping money on either format until there’s a clear winner. By all accounts BR is technically the better format (long term) but it a looser on the basis of:

1. It’s made by Sony. (remember the rootkit fiasco?) and…

2. The DRM on HD-DVD allows for a managed copy BR doesn’t (last I heard.)

By: ppcmd

ppcmd — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:56:07 +0000

HD-DVD it my choice. It can run standard DVD’s so its not obsolete in my house which has a lot of DVD’s. BluRay no thx.

By: victor

victor — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:30:04 +0000

I personally don’t see the need for a hd format on a disk when the logical step would have been digital (hdd) as mention before. But I guess if I had to choose Blu-ray I like sony’s design better.

By: Tande

Tande — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:00:53 +0000

Like DanITman said, at the very least the story is misleading.

Sony bought out an end cap for the season and thats about it. The HD camp was quick to point out that X-Box drives will still be in the stores and both still availible online. Movies in both formats will still be availble in store and online.

By: Geniuz

Geniuz — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:08:17 +0000

Blu-Ray ALL DAY!!!!

By: DanITman

DanITman — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:06:34 +0000

You should rerun this story as it was false. Target still plans on providing HD-DVD. Engadget has the correct story.

By: Salvador Bobadilla

Salvador Bobadilla — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:48:05 +0000

I can care less now what Sony gets with this store chains suckas. I have a HD DVD player with my xbox 360.

All i care right now is that next week the movie “300″ is coming out on hd dvd format, and its the only thing it matters.

Blue-Ray’s in time would get blue balls, and HD DVD would get the gir.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:45:34 +0000

Both suck, I don’t understand why they had to develope two different types of high definition formats.

Thank god I have a Playstation 3 AND an Xbox 360 otherwise I wouldn’t of had bought either of them..

By: mikeyp

mikeyp — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:34:58 +0000

yeah i choose neither too, I will keep renting HD movies on my xbox live and avoid the whole mess. Eventually I hope to either see xbox with more HD movies or AppleTV – either would work for me and would be my choice over a player with loose disks.

By: CGun

CGun — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:25:49 +0000

which do I use? Neither. Too cheap to buy a player since I don’t want something that’s going to be rendered obsolete in the near future. I guess Blu-Ray since I’m going to get one of them thar PS3s someday too.