I’ve chosen a side in the dvd war
I’m now the owner of a PS3. Went looking for a high definition dvd player and the best price I could find was $325 for a decent Toshiba. I decided to drop another $174 and get a PS3, which includes a Blu-ray player. So fuck HD-DVD, long live Blu-ray.
So far Sony, Blockbuster and Samsung are on my side. Microsoft becomes more of an enemy.
Picked up The Fountain as a test movie and thoroughly enjoyed it. Five movies came with qualifying players, but that offer forced me into choices such as Stealth, Resident Evil 2, Underworld Evolution or Stir of Echoes. I went with a sweaty Kate Beckinsale.
August 7th, 2007 at 2:21 am
Enjoy your no games with that PS3. You didn’t look hard enough at HD DVD players. You can find a Toshiba A2 from time-to-time for $199.
The only movie that I can’t get on HD DVD that I really wish I could is Casino Royale. I watched The Fountain on HD DVD. The high def didn’t make it make any more sense.
And Blockbuster is only kinda on the side of Blu-Ray with 25% of their stores going Blu-Ray first (despite the Blu-Ray fanboy take on what it meant.)
August 7th, 2007 at 2:23 am
And I don’t think M$ is really against BR as much as they are for neither format gaining complete dominance, hence the half-assed support of HD DVD. They want to skip the high def discs and use their codecs to stream high def video.
August 7th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
yeah I got to Blockbuster for the first time last week in a few years and was surprised to see the HD-DVD area.
Agreed, physical discs shouldn’t matter in a few years. They shouldn’t matter already if various companies had their shit together.
I joined the Blockbuster All-Access, it rocks. I’m going to probably drop gamefly as I can just swap out games or movies 10 feet from my apt now.