You mean like vinyl is still around and being used for sale of recorded music?

In that case, there is a perceived benefit of being easier to "scratch" than CDs when DJing.

"vinyl is still around and being used for sale of recorded music" vinyl has a long history of existence and was about in every US household. There is no way that HD DVD can claim any market similar. That doesn't mean it can not exist in some limited market, maybe like in the jungles ;-)

I bought a vinyl in '04. :)

I bought a lot of vinyl in 74. :-)
Was trying to remember the last vinyl I bought for playing vs for the sake of collecting. Other than the Eagles special order new album...I don't think I've purchased any vinyl since the early 80's.
Bought a few HD DVD's in 07'....and will keep them for my museum of "bleeding edge" mistakes that I've made.

"bleeding edge" I think most of us have travel that road more that once. I very guilty of just collecting technology gadgets just for temporary amusement. Not the best use of spare coin.

I'm no artist but here's my take on it...
http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q136/goshep/LastStand.jpg

I STILL can't get links to work :/

Goshep, try this http://www.myhax0r.net/LinkCreator.zipEasy Link Creator[/link] it makes it easy peasy.

Thanks Alan!

Here goes nothin.....

http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q136/goshep/LastStand.jpgPRESTO![/link]


Woohoo! It works it works! I'm gonna have all kinds of fun with this!

Thanks again.

You're welcome.

Thanks for the thanks.

Alan

goshep, don't you want to use ... ?
[[/b]img=/img]

So that the image displays as such ... ?
Image

Jonathan,

I was using "href" but I guess that was the right text in the wrong situation. HTML may as well be Latin as far as I'm concerned. I'm about as fluent in either.

HD-DVD will be around for a long, long time.

I don't consider 3 weeks a long, long time.

@Terje:
I don't consider 3 weeks a long, long time.
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^^^ And according to industry insiders, posting on Blu-ray.com forum, it will be maximum of 6 weeks, not more, when official "Death Certificate" to Toshiba will be issued.

And picture worth a thousand words.

Word on the street is that Toshiba will officially kill HD DVD this week and release all the studios from their contracts at the same time. This includes Warner.

Well, Toshiba management has already said that production was going to stop, but the big news is the Toshiba board of directors are now meeting, and currently "planning out" the new corp plan. This redirection is so big, with so many contracts,that the board must officially signoff on it. Many Toshiba manager heads will probably roll for being talked into the MS and Intel alliance without more $$$ guarantees from them. MS was the major reason why most of the studios walked and if the many rumors about MS talking Toshiba into not joining BD in the beginning is true, then the Toshiba board is going to demand accountability, from their people and MS----this could be real interesting the next couple of years.

Get over it fool.

To clarify my earlier post.

HD-DVD equipment will be playing existing HD-DVDs movies and(regular) DVDs until the day they wear out.

Just out of curiousity,

Apit, Mozart Man, Fred, and Terje,

Right now I personally have around 300 SD DVD discs and around 50 HD DVD discs the former being my current preference due to low cost.

John

@craftech
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Just out of curiousity,
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What difference does it make?

Do you want me to type the list of movies on Blu-ray that I own?

I know for sure that you are burning 3x DVDs (HD DVD content on red laser DVDs) with your DVD burner;

On the other hand I author videos in Blu-ray format and burn them on Blu-ray disks with my Blu-ray burner, and those disks play on Blu-ray players (including PS3).

@craftech
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Just out of curiousity,

Apit, Mozart Man, Fred, and Terje,

How many Blu-Ray movies do you each currently own?

Right now I personally have around 300 SD DVD discs and around 50 HD DVD discs the former being my current preference due to low cost.
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What difference does it make?
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Read my rather simple and very short short post again. Just a rough number will do.
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I know for sure that you are burning 3x DVDs (HD DVD content on red laser DVDs) with your DVD burner;
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Really? You must know something I don't. I am not burning Blu-Ray discs nor HD DVD discs - just my personal favorite at the moment - SD DVD discs. In fact, I son't even have an HD camera - unless you know that I have one. If I do, can you tell me where I misplaced it? I'd love to use it.

I take it you resent the question Mozart Man? If so why?

John

Just out of curiousity,

I have about 800 SD DVD's, including box sets, so the number of actual movies is probably closer to 900. For BR, well I just bought my first discs last week: The Searchers and Rio Bravo. I've also just ordered the Blade Runner box set. I don't have a player yet, but I bought CDs and DVDs before I had players for those. As I've said, my stance has been that I believed Blu-Ray would win, not that I *wanted* it to win. It wasn't a matter of picking a favorite, it was predicting the outcome. And I did a pretty good job-- I said shortly after the holidays we'd have a winner, and we did, on January 4th, and elsewhere I'd said (when the Paramount flip happened) that that would allow HD-DVD to drag on a little longer, "probably till around March." :-)

Fred

Just out of curiousity,

Apit, Mozart Man, Fred, and Terje,

How many Blu-Ray movies do you each currently own?

Right now I personally have around 300 SD DVD discs and around 50 HD DVD discs the former being my current preference due to low cost.

John

I have about 800 SD DVD's, including box sets, so the number of actual movies is probably closer to 900. For BR, well I just bought my first discs last week: The Searchers and Rio Bravo. I've also just ordered the Blade Runner box set. I don't have a player yet, but I bought CDs and DVDs before I had players for those. As I've said, my stance has been that I believed Blu-Ray would win, not that I *wanted* it to win. It wasn't a matter of picking a favorite, it was predicting the outcome. And I did a pretty good job-- I said shortly after the holidays we'd have a winner, and we did, on January 4th, and elsewhere I'd said (when the Paramount flip happened) that that would allow HD-DVD to drag on a little longer, "probably till around March." :-)

Fred
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Nice collection of SD DVDs. I thought mine was large at around 300. Now that you are starting to get into Hi-Def you will begin to notice that all Hi-Def discs are not created equal. That was my biggest disappointment. Many of the SD DVDs upconverted look as good as many of the average HD DVDs or Blu-Ray discs. We watch both in our home theater with the other fifteen regular guests. One of them brings his PS3 and the Blu-Ray movies. That's how I know the hit or miss nature.

So how about Terje, Apit, and Mozart Man? How many Blu-Ray discs do you own? I forgot Jonathan Neal since you started the thread. How many do you own?

John

"Just out of curiousity,

Apit, Mozart Man, Fred, and Terje,

How many Blu-Ray movies do you each currently own?


Right now I personally have around 300 SD DVD discs and around 50 HD DVD discs the former being my current preference due to low cost."
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??? are we on the AVSFORUMs???? A lot BD disks, over 30 BDs as gifts this last Christmas(a few repeats. just never returned them), and a couple of HD DVDs. Have very large libraries-of- VHS tapes, SD DVDs, Laser discs, Betamaxs, ---there are a lot of repeats between laser discs =vhs=dvd and BD now-----

I think upscaling to 720p is OK, but upscaling to 1080p just is not here when compare to 1080p material. Comcast HD cable is marginal at best, tho, I do watched a few shows weekly.

Built my "first" really big home theater in 88. Many think I'm excessive in my "toys".

I think the real question is "how many large screen 1080p movies do you watch?" -- not much---time management.

I have learned to limit my and everyone else's time in front of the big screens thru out the house or "nothing" gets done. "A" students become "B" ones really fast with the flicter of the large screen. The same "Time" problem exist with Internet gaming and Chat rooms. But I still keep the "Toys" and getting new ones ( a little slower now) .