Comments on: HD DVD Loses Format War – Plans For Trek On Blu-ray (and HD DVD) Unknown [UPDATED]

By: Mark Mark

Mark Mark — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:55:16 +0000

Like Sony’s Beta format before it, Blu-Ray was the obvious choice based on the quality (and certainly quantity) of the media itself, marketing not withstanding. I’m a Blu-Ray adopter via Sony’s PlayStation3, and I absolutely love this format. There’s enough space on Blu-Ray discs to put multiple versions of films, high-quality audio soundtrack choices like Dolby TrueHD and uncompressed 5.1 PCM tracks, as well room to for digital copies of the movie itself that you can copy directly to your PC or iPod. The future of Blu-Ray is great, and those of you who haven’t moved to hi-def movies will be absolutely blown away once you do.

By: Ian Leahy

Ian Leahy — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:54:19 +0000

I personally bought both and I am still happy with my HDDVD player as it is good quality I can convert blu ray to hd dvd on my pc anyway and Blu-Ray is just something extra and more expensive. Still I am asking my m8’s what they have and alot arent even aware either format exists, I think this is down to stores having such a massive selection of DVD’s and only a very small selection of hi-def disks. This is particulary true with HMV.

By: Blagnarok

Blagnarok — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:38:40 +0000

It’s obvious why HD-DVD lost i mean “HD-DVD,” what a mouthful!

I think we can all agree that if it was mearly “HDVD,” or “High Definition Video Disk,” it would have done much better in the marketplace.

After all “Blu-Ray” is just so much easier to say than “HD-DVD.”

“HDVD” rolls of the tounge much nicer.

By: Steve Short

Steve Short — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:42:30 +0000

Today Best Buy is selling HD-DVD FIRST SEASON STAR TREK for $99.99 some $40 or $30 less, but on the back it reads you can play it on a DVD players also is this right? (HD-DVD and DVD)? But I think I will wait for HDTV and Blu ray prices to come down next year .

By: Todd S.

Todd S. — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:21:59 +0000

How about releasing Star Trek – Remastered on standard DVD now and then on whatever high def format that Paramount’s little heart desires somewhere down the road?

As for me buying into Blu Ray… I’m going to wait until the Blu-Ray camp gets their act together and finally releases a Profile 2.0 spec player and drops the prices on the hardware a bit more. I picked up an HD-DVD player about a month ago when the prices were slashed in half (yes, I figured the end was likely near for the format) and to be honest high def doesn’t look that much better than DVD on my 46″ HDTV. I’m in no big hurry to buy into Blu ray at the current prices for hardware and software.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:42:41 +0000

Good lord, the fight to be first, and to say nothing but being the first is so retarded. Some sites make a rule against that, and I now know why. With that bitching session out of the way, I like this site a lot, I find it one of, if not the most reliable place to get Trek news.

I found the whole format war silly, and never got any of the new stuff (didn’t know what one I’d ever get anyways) as it was expensive. The HD Stuff looked cool though, I’ll give it that, I never understood what the difference between the formats were. It’s to bad to cancel the rest of the series over this.

Sorry if this doesn’t make sense (lord knows it didn’t say what I wanted it to say) I was pretty tired when I wrote this

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:14:01 +0000

Blu-ray is superior. Yeah right, that’s why there are class-action lawsuits in court right now because of Blu-ray’s build specifications. Seems tons of consumers bought Blu-ray players that will not play certain Blu-ray disc & because certain promised features do not function. The build specification was supposed to be finally squared away but the new players have been delayed again. So even though HD DVD is dead I would not recommend buying a Blu-ray player. Kind of sad because at least the HD DVD players worked correctly right out of the box with all of the features. Am sure those Blu-ray people are not going to be too thrilled at the thought of having to buy yet another machine just so the disc will play correctly. After all that’s why the class action lawsuit was filed. Seems crazy that the studios would choose Blu-ray over HD DVD knowing full well about these problems & looming lawsuits. Seems pretty crazy seeing as how the player that worked correctly was also much cheaper to purchase. Seeing as how the economy is sliding into a serious recession I don’t see Blu-ray taking off anytime soon. Overpriced buggy junk with overpriced blank disc & movies. I will just keep my HD DVD player and use it for regular DVD since the regular DVD’s look far superior on this player than my standard DVD player. Seriously $30.00 for a stinking movie that’s been recycled for years is totally insane. I will just skip high definition video disc & wait for the next format to replace it & only after it’s long settled. Not an early adopter. Only reason I bought an HD DVD player was that I needed a new DVD player (up-converting deck to upstairs HDTV gave up the ghost) & I got the Toshiba cheaper than I could get a really decent up-converting player. Seriously do not feel the need to run out & buy a Blu-ray. Kind of have the feeling that Blu-ray is probably dead as well unless the industry simply wipes the shelves of standard DVD & tries to force it on people. By the time Blu-ray gets their act together downloads will be almost ready to replace it. So I see Blu-ray as having a limited future. Doubt seriously it will have a long run like standard DVD as the writing is already on the wall.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:02:10 +0000

#180….yep.

http://www.blu-ray.com/players/

By: YUBinit

YUBinit — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:14:10 +0000

Oh I realize I dont have to have Sony to play BluRay. Are you sure about Philips/Magnavox? DAMN… my high def tv is Philips. LOL

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:31:23 +0000

177 Sean: Blu-ray isn’t a hardware monopoly like Toshiba’s HD DVD. You have Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, Philips, Pioneer, Sharp, Denon, LG, etc all fighting to be the Blu-ray player you purchase. Pricing, features, quality differ, that is true competition. Prices will fall, but not at the unrealistic rate that HD DVD was at (Toshiba was losing millions).

178 YUBinit: Look at all the brands I listed. You don’t have to have a SONY Blu-ray player. Myself I have both a PlayStation 3 and a Panasonic BD-30.

BTW: Panasonic is majority patent holder on Blu-ray technology.
The Blu-ray Disc Association core membership was Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer and Philips. The press likes to boil it down to Sony because they are the most famous, which the HD DVD group (Toshiba, Toshiba, Toshiba, Onkyo & Venturer players made by Toshiba, XBOX add-on made by Toshiba) used to spread misinformation.