I feel stupid asking this but will normal DVD still be coming out or are the companies that exclusively went BluRay gonna make me buy the BR disc?

DVD will remain while HDTVs settle down and the prices drop on both the TVs and BR players. Then like VHS the DVD will slowly sell cheaper and cheaper until they bring in no profit. But thats something that won't happen until 2015-2020.

It may take longer for DVDs themselves to go though. They are only just starting to replace PC CDs.

quote Motorway Maniac

DVD will remain while HDTVs settle down and the prices drop on both the TVs and BR players. Then like VHS the DVD will slowly sell cheaper and cheaper until they bring in no profit. But thats something that won't happen until 2015-2020.

It may take longer for DVDs themselves to go though. They are only just starting to replace PC CDs.

quote Motorway Maniac

DVD will remain while HDTVs settle down and the prices drop on both the TVs and BR players. Then like VHS the DVD will slowly sell cheaper and cheaper until they bring in no profit. But thats something that won't happen until 2015-2020.

It may take longer for DVDs themselves to go though. They are only just starting to replace PC CDs.

quote ChiroVette

quote Motorway Maniac

DVD will remain while HDTVs settle down and the prices drop on both the TVs and BR players. Then like VHS the DVD will slowly sell cheaper and cheaper until they bring in no profit. But thats something that won't happen until 2015-2020.

It may take longer for DVDs themselves to go though. They are only just starting to replace PC CDs.

I don't know that standard DVD will last until 2015. That is another 7 years.

why talkin bout my weight? just bc it's like i'm anorexic...geez!!

haha anyways, idk. i heard awhile ago paramount said it was going to Blu-ray and that pretty much it was over. so where u guys got this whole new idea that it's over. i def do believe blu ray won a long time ago... when paramount or whoever it was went with blu ray. they were the biggest company or somethin so if they went to HD, hd won, if they went to blu ray, blu ray won. they used both n then decided on blu ray only.

i'll see if i can find that article....


edit: ok... so it wasn't paramount. it was warner bros. source

We already knew that months ago...This thread is about Toshiba announcing that it is no longer going to be producing HD-DVD and was backing out of the format war. Thus officially ending the Format War.

Koloth don't you you think VHS was dead a good bit before 2004. I can't remember anyone buying vhs's anymore.

forgive me for being dumb but wat are main differences between the 2 formats? is storage capacity similar? etc....

quote Existenz

quote guticb

360 + 2 years of live comes out more than a PS3.

Xbox 360 20Gb = $388
WiFi Adapter = $100
Play and Charge Kit = $20
Blu-Ray Add-on = $130

Total = $638

Xbox 360 Elite = $525
WiFi Adapter = $100
Play and Charge Kit = $20
Blu-Ray Add-on = $130

Total = $775

Playstation 3 80Gb = $648
Playstation 3 40Gb = $399

And both SKU's come with all the stuff you would have to buy, not to mention the 40Gig comes with Spiderman and the 80Gig with Motorstorm, i didn't add on the Xbox Live yearly subscription even though Xbox is nothing without it.

Not turning this into a console war, just stating the facts, before anyone says... The Blu-Ray add-on wouldn't do a lot to the overall price or something like that.

quote JakeDaSnake

forgive me for being dumb but wat are main differences between the 2 formats? is storage capacity similar? etc....

quote maddoggydog

Koloth don't you you think VHS was dead a good bit before 2004. I can't remember anyone buying vhs's anymore.

quote Motorway Maniac

Blu-Ray 25GB and 50GB SD Data MAX

Xbox 360 20Gb: $388
2007 Lamborghini Gallardo coupe to get to Best Buy to buy the 360: $180,050
Blood of Christ that I use as fuel for my car: $1,000
Slave boy I purchased to carry all four massive discs Lost Odyssey is on, as well as switch the discs every ten seconds the game prompts you to do so: $300
Damage done to house after 360 exploded due to hardware failure: $5,780
Second Xbox 360 20Gb: $388
More fuel, of course: $1,000
Protective bullet proof glass installed around 360 to protect innocents from its hardware failures: $150
Sneak King: $5
Funeral for my mother when she attempted to insert Sneak King disc into 360 when Bill Gates came back from Larry L's house with a blood stained shirt and proceeded to bludgeon my mother to death with a large wad of cash he stole from us: $15,000

Total: A bajillion dollars

Used PS3 from Gamestop with no controller, stripped harddrive and no games: $100
God giving me an approving wink and thumbs up as I walk back home from the store: priceless

Total: $100 and a ticket to Heaven

I hope I've ended this argument once and for all and shown you that the 360 is, without a doubt, more expensive than the PS3 once you factor in the death and mayhem it causes.

This message was edited by lordmachao on Feb 26 2008.

quote jeterocks

We already knew that months ago...This thread is about Toshiba announcing that it is no longer going to be producing HD-DVD and was backing out of the format war. Thus officially ending the Format War.

SD won't just die in '09. Analogue broadcasts are whats going to come to an end. SDTVs will still be around. However if you have one you will need a digital converter box to continue to recieve signals. HDTVs are at an advantage because they already use digital signals. And most people will likely just buy a new TV rather than getting an additional component to fix the problem. Of course if you have cable or satillite there is no problem as they already handle digital signals.

But just because we convert to digital doesn't mean we are going to convert to HD.