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As many of you know, the Asylum is indeed the final arbitrators of all things arbitrated. Our collective word is law, now until the dawn of eternaty. It's what we do.

Anyways...

Wait 3 years for the price to be reasonable, **** will have sorted itself out by then. That or you can dust off your beta max and join a hudderite colony.

HD-DVD players prices arn't THAT bad. Plus I mean you can always wait for the 45NM HDMI xbox360's Oh wait.. I said the no no word...

Edited, Aug 27th 2007 2:39:21am by nLoD

I thought it was going to be HD because that's what the **** industry was going with, but looking at the numbers it looks like BluRay might actually pull it off.

more and more companies are moving AWAY from BR and towards HD-DVD. there are plenty of reasons for this, some of it is incentive money from the Toshiba backed group, others are the fact that Sony is a nasty company to do business with and more and more people/companies are shying away from all the bad press that Sony is getting and giving them.

the BR disk has its advantages over the HD-DVD, but when you look at the total picture with company support, media support, it is still a toss up as to who will win. i hope it is the HD-DVD

ROFLMAO

HD-DVD because it rolls off the tongue easier, because yes, most people I've seen/met/interacted with will choose something easier to pronounce over something with better quality.

Unlike back in the 1980's when there was Beta vs. VHS, the **** industry doesn't carry quite as much weight as it did then, thanks to the internet. So honestly, I disagree with the opinion that HD-DVD will win because of the **** industry putting itself behind that particular format. I also disagree with the (somewhat) stated opinion that Blu-Ray will win because of the fact that more people rent Blu-Ray from Blockbuster than people rent HD-DVD from there.

There isn't a clear winner right now, if only because of the simple fact that there are too many companies backing the two different methods. Unlike the Beta vs. VHS, it's not a question of real discernable quality (for VHS it was longer tape, but crappier quality, and for Beta it was shorter tape, but higher quality) unless you really are paying attention to that sort of thing. I myself can't tell the difference between the two on a HD TV most of the time.

Honestly, I think the winner will be whichever format is able to put out the cheapest player by this or the next holiday season for shoppers to pick up. The more households you can get your player into, the bigger marketshare your product will grab when it comes to new movie releases.

Voted Blu-ray simply because they have all the momentum right now. If they keep that through the holiday season it'll be tough for HD-DVD to come back.

Blu-ray, even if only because otherwise my PS3 sort of loses a big part of the attraction.

But as someone already stated, too early to tell. Sure, Paramount now only supports HD-DVD, but analysts stated that this was way too soon to make that move.

Best quality is not a guarantee (as the VHS victory has shown), prices are a good help. Blu-ray is expensive, the player and the movies themselves.

Anybody else remember the nasal drone of the nerds who would point out that "Betamax is technically superior to VHS"? Yep - they had the lastest technology and were unrepresentative of the buying power of mass markets.

HD-DVD, dumbasses.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but this was my first thought as well.

Nexa