Video Asylum

TVs, VCRs, DVD players, Home Theater systems and more.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

Well, Ole, I'm heading out today to buy a HD DVD player!

Posted by jsm on December 1, 2007 at 11:52:16:
Since I can buy one for significantly under $200 (roughly the cost of taking my family out to dinner in a good restaurant these days), and there are now many titles in that format I wouldn't mind renting, why not? The PQ is so good that at this level of investment and at this stage it's hardly worth even worth arguing about which is better. Just four of us going out to the movies three or four times can cost more than the player. I certainly won't cry if BD wins in the long run, but for me the significantly larger investment in a player with a format that isn't yet standardized seems silly. The BD people should get real. Sony did the right thing when they got together with Phillips at the introduction of the CD and agreed on what is now the RBCD standard, avoiding a repeat of the VCR fiasco. For the very few movies that might interest me that aren't out on HD DVD, but only on BD, upsampled DVD looks more than acceptable to me with my Oppo player.

Ole, you can quote all the statistics you want, but so far we are in the early stages. If the HD DVD players prices stay cheap or gets even cheaper, say near $100, and BD players don't get close to that, I think it will be all over fairly soon, at least in the US. It seems like everybody is buying HD TV sets these days, and they are going to want a HD player once they realize how good they can be. If they can be had for $100 or so, the average buyer won't care in the least if it's BD or HD DVD, and they will fly off the shelves.

Well, I'm off to the store!

Joe