Quote Originally Posted by DemonEyez
you would think so but blu-ray movies are out selling hd movies worldwide..
also go to dell. compaq.. hp.. nearly any comptuer site cept toshiba and "build" a pc and u can add a blu-ray burner but no HD burner.

Like i stated in an earlier post blu-ray is being highly adopted for data storage because they have a full working BD200 disc. Aka 200gb. At HD can't get their HD51 workin.. 51gb they have been trying for 2 years.

But its not about the name honestly.

VHS to DVD? they didnt go for SVHS.. or SDVHS.. super.. or super duper.. i know i made it up and it sounds stupid.. but they switched.

As for more news in regards to this btw::

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VP of marketing for waner bro's resigned last night. He was a key proponent inside warner for HD dvd and kept trying to push warner towards HD only. His resignation tho does not mean warner will go blu-ray only either. They stand firm on their TotalHD solution. Aka both systems.

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Unconfirmed but repots from china are indicating a 199$ blu-ray player to hit walmarts shelfs for the holiday season as well as indications that walmart may only stock blu-ray hardware and no HD hardware at all other than the 360 add-on.

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That walmart thing if confirmed would be the end of it honestly. Walmart/sams alone pushed vizio into the no. 1 selling lcd in the US. And vizio's PicQuality is pretty bad. But price and the fact that so many people just buy at walmart/sams did it. That would be pretty huge.

Also along with michael bay voicing his discontent over the decision sources close to steven speilberg said he is considering selling dreamworks animation studio's which he built up. Why not just leave? If SS just leaves paramount keeps the entire movie catalog. Except for those SS directed himself. If dreamworks is sold, SS keeps the entire movie catalog. Along with SS james cameron is apparently displeased as well.

Turns out this move could be a huge mistake for paramount.

In another turn, Weinstein, who brought you movies like grindhouse have showcased their next movie debut's in regular dvd and blu-ray only. Which is a switch as their previous release was in HD and regular only, not blu-ray.



Also to QD. Yeah the toshiba does a good job of upconverting. For those thinking the same thing be wary of other companies "up-converting" alot of companies use a brute force method and dont use a proper logic chipset for the conversion. Aka the toshiba one does a nice job but ones like the phillip's are just garbage.

Anywho just passing along new's being reported via various other forums if anyone's interested in this kinda thing.

Good points all. not to forget that both Target and Blockbuster are aimed to support blue ray discs exclusively.

i think it is a huge mistake on Paramount's part, in not taking into account what the CONSUMER ultimately wants. The 'pay under the table' is the final insult, but may also show that blue ray keeps trending positive agains hd-dvd, and it may have been a desperate 'push' to keep the war going and try to keep the hd-dvd ship afloat.

I guess the war will be raging on for a bit longer... sigh...