Why did the HD DVD die? I liked it better than Blu Ray and even had a HD DVD drive for my Xbox 360.
>>64416191
>HD DVD drive for my Xbox 360
Theres your answer retard
>>64416191
I have one too because my dipshit brother thought it was the future. I also have on HD DVD Troy, King Kong, and Transformers...
PS3 had a lot to do with it.
I never owned a player but for some reason own an HD DVD of Army of Darkness
Entirely because Microsoft didn't make the 360 drive an HD-DVD drive. That's it.
>>64417072
I started buying a lot of them on Amazon for pennies
I have matrix trilogy, and shit tons of others
Was it higher quality.
PS3 had a blu ray player at a time where it was the cheapest blu ray player available.
This is literally it. We could all be watching ugly ass red cases today and HD DVD would still be around. Oh well. Nobody cares.
Pioneer didn't push the marketing well enough. And by 'well enough,' I mean 'at all.'
>>64416191
bluray choose the porno
>>64416967
This, buying a $200 addon to the 360 to play HD movies was not exactly a good idea.
BD held more data per layer (15GB vs 25GB) and Sony learned from their mistakes with beta. I think the BD association was larger and more aggressive than Toshiba. Supposedly the BDA gave Warner Bros $500,000,000 to ditch HD-DVD, an amount Toshiba and its partners simply couldn't match.
>>64417246
Plus the fact that DISNEY supported bluray pretty much sealed the deal.
>>64417226
the human eye can not tell the difference between HD DVD and Blu Ray. Anyone who says you can is a meme,..
Will a updated PS4 be released to help push ultra HD blu-ray?
>>64417226
Blu-ray could hold 10 more gigs. I don't think there was much of a difference in quality. PS3 really helped the format out. If 360 shipped with HD DVD they may have survived.
HD DVD had a hard life. Betrayed by all the studio jews on its side.
>The cities of Universal, Warner Bros. and Paramount Pictures
>cucks actually think their pstriples and xbox's had anything to do with blu ray beating hd dvd
I collected both (disposable income is great) and HD-DVD used to load quicker, had no region locking and the Toshiba player I had had excellent DVD upscaling.
The first wave of Blu-ray players were garbage, slow, expensive, discs were shitty MPEG-2 encoded transfers and it wasn't until just after the format war that Blu-ray became usable.
had more space than hddvd
>tfw all your favorite movies are obscure 80s horror films that will never get a proper blu ray release
>you have to watch them in standard def on your 60 inch tv for the rest of your life
holy shit this hurt so much
they look so god damn bad
>>64417325
Doubt it. The Blu-rays require HDMI 2.0 for HDCP 2.0 or higher. Don't even think it can decode HDR format either.
It's dead on arrival.
>>64417226
no.
Basically Harry Potter won the format war for blu ray:
> “Warner Bros.’ move to exclusively release in the Blu-ray disc format is a strategic decision focused on the long term and the most direct way to give consumers what they want,” said Meyer. “The window of opportunity for high-definition DVD could be missed if format confusion continues to linger. We believe that exclusively distributing in Blu-ray will further the potential for mass market success and ultimately benefit retailers, producers, and most importantly, consumers.”
> “A two-format landscape has led to consumer confusion and indifference toward high definition, which has kept the technology from reaching mass adoption and becoming the important revenue stream that it can be for the industry,” said Tsujihara. “Consumers have clearly chosen Blu-ray, and we believe that recognizing this preference is the right step in making this great home entertainment experience accessible to the widest possible audience. Warner Bros. has worked very closely with the Toshiba Corporation in promoting high definition media and we have enormous respect for their efforts. We look forward to working with them on other projects in the future”.
>>64417372
They did.
>>64417397
Shut/scream factory are doing pretty good job of remastering a lot of obscure horror stuff
>>64417209
This. That external HD-DVD drive you own for your 360 is actually a big part of the reason why the medium failed, OP. Microsoft sold that thing for $199 USD as an add-on for their console without realizing that the lowest common denominator of people were more likely to gravitate toward their competition, which included the media player by default and was a better value ($499 + $199 USD for Xbox 360 and HD-DVD add-on, versus $599 USD for PS3 with built-in Blu-ray player).
Video games and porn really do set the course for media formats, it seems.
I love watching movies with lossless surround, watching Netflix is like having sand thrown in your face and ears.
>>64417502
It's not really Netflix fault the cable Jew throttles speeds.
>>64417551
That's true.
I am looking forward to UHD Blu-ray. Would love to see some of the older 70mm stuff transfered onto the format. If remastered right you'd get a cinema quality experience.
>>64417486
>>64417397
yeah, how obscure we talking here? i love old ass obscure horror and have no problem finding blu ray releases of em.
>>64417372
nigga it's basically what validated the 'PS3 has no games' meme when people had more movies to watch on it than games to play
>tfw this shit movie was your first blu ray
>>64417408
>The Blu-rays require HDMI 2.0 for HDCP 2.0 or higher
Why would 4K Blu-rays require HDMI 2.0? HDMI 1.4a already supports 4k at 24 and 30Hz.
The real problem is the PS4 and Xbox One's BD-drives won't be able to read the 3rd and 4th layers of a BDXL disc. They also don't have hardware HEVC decoders but this would be less of an issue given both have GCN GPUs.
>>64417766
>Shit
>>64417766
That movie isn't shit. It's a great satire of Days of Thunder.
>>64417614
check the site they have done stuff like death spa which was only available on VHS before they did a bluray release.
also arrow video if you a brit tend to do lots of 80's horror stuff
>>64416191
>two thumbs way up
What self respecting reviewer speaks like this?
At a time when most people had neither, Playstation 3 gave everyone a Blu Ray player.
>>64417838
A paid one.
>>64416191
Disk rot.
>>64417875
Well, you're not wrong
I have more than a few HD DVDS and half of them seem to be affected by some residue in the cases. Discs in seemingly perfect condition rendered unreadable. Would not recommend HD DVD even as a stupid novelty unless you find them for so cheap that it doesn't matter if they work or not. Many of them likely won't.
I still have a few
Porn chose blu ray. Simple as that.
Tfw get a 15GB PS3 for your 14th birthday along with this http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1567770207/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?qid=1451805799&sr=8-7&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=blu+ray and this and now they are both extrememly rare http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001EY5VMS/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?qid=1451805870&sr=8-6&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=blu+ray+movies&dpPl=1&dpID=51QdMRVLrtL&ref=plSrch
>>64418110
>15GB PS3
You mean the 20GB model? Probably only had 15GB of free space at launch.
>>64418047
I wouldn't mind buying a HD-DVD player today and getting cheap HD-DVDs but seeing as I already have 4 devices that play Blu-rays, it would be a dumb purchase.
>>64418179
You can pick up HD-DVD players for peanuts, anon.
>>64418242
Especially the add on ones for Xbox 360, they cost next to nothing.
>>64418242
I get that but I don't know where I would put it, my TV has too many devices connected to it as is, and almost all of them can play Blu-rays. I don't need another HD video player.
Are UHD Blu Rays going to be big, or will it be as much of a waste as my 4k TV?
>>64418316
I have the Xbox 360 elite though so that white HD-DVD player will look ugly.
>>64418358
The format will not be popular but if you buy a new 4K Blu-ray player it might be worth it in with some films.
PS4 and Xbox One won't play 4K Blu-rays without a hardware refresh (could happen) and the new Nintendo console certainly won't play it given they've never even supported DVD.
>>64418358
They'll be a lack of true 4K content for a while, as HD TV shows aren't in 4K generally, and a lot of movies are only in 2K. Ironically, older movies shot on film (especially 70mm) will probably make better use of the format. 4K Lawrence of Arabia would be awesome.
Sony always wins, baby.
Sony always wins.
>>64418110
What the fuck, why is that movie so expensive
>>64418451
>hemorrhaging cash and selling off various departments and subsidiaries
>always wins
>>64418451
>Betamax
>Minidisc
>UMDS
>>64418358
Would be worth buying if they release a Malick collection or Leone
>>64418451
>gets hacked
>considered a win
>>64417372
Blu ray literally didn't exist anywhere but in PS3 at first.
>>64418628
>>64418627
literally kings in japan
>>64418627
It's only five-hundred-million dollars.
>>64418627
>>64418628
>>64418667
We're in the money,
The skies are sunny;
Old Man Depression, you are through,
You done us wrong!
>>64418846
>Wii U
>ever hitting 22 million units sold
Best format.
>>64417158
samehere. But I gave it to my brother, and he wonders time to time where the fuck it came from.
>>64417766
Best PS3 game to be honest.
Well, dual-layer BD is a thing, for starters. No such thing as a dual-layer HD-DVD.
>>64416191
HD-DVD wasn't future proof. Sony was smart this time and license super cheap Blu-Ray format and got bigger vendor adoption. Which lead to the porn industry adopting it early.
Im sure its been said already but Blu Ray had more support at release and won porn.
HDDVD was a better technical format, though.
>>64421251
>HDDVD was a better technical format, though.
In what way was it better? Highest capacity you could get out of HD-DVD was 30gb, compared to BD being 50gb.
>>64421362
That definitely was not true at release
>>64417502
Netflix is fucking garbage, at least with Hulu you get Criterion releases which somewhat redeem the service, but Netflix is literally mainstream Hollywood jew produced trash: the streaming service.
PS3 mostly
they actually talked about this in tropic thunder
if Xbox had NATIVELY went with HD DVD it would have been an interesting battle
>>64421653
Yeah, Netflix is a wasteland of content now.
They spent too much money on making their own shows instead of using that money to actually buy existing content.
>>64421251
I don't believe this porn meme, the margin of PS3 users and people who are still using physical porn releases to fap to must be like 1 percent, no self respecting male, not even the worst betas actually buy porn anymore.
>>64421800
you would be surprised how shitty internet is in first world countries anon
>>64418526
$13 ... ?
PS3 is why.
>>64423423
This
Get rekd xbots.
>>64417072
I remember Troy looking amazing on HD DVD.
The Training Day hd DVD looked better than the Blu Ray because the BD had a shitty mpeg2 encode. Shame my HD DVD copy had disc rot, an issue all of the Warner Bros discs have
Hd DVD of Darkman was great
>>64418088
this, just like the vcr cassette vs. betamax
>>64417877
What's wrong with his jaw?
>>64418088
If there's ever another format war, will porn really matter?
I mean, maybe in 2006, but the internet is a whole different beast compared to back then.
>>64425568
He didn't have one anymore. Cancer is a bitch.
Didn't the porn industry decide on using blu-ray instead of HDDVD? Often heard that was a deciding factor in the race.
>>64417766
I'm struggling to even remember what my first Blu Ray purchase was. I remember definitively that Clockwork Orange was my first DVD purchase which I bought with a player after saving up from my first job 15 years ago. No idea about Blu Ray though.
>>64416191
Porn. Same with VHS.
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Post GOAT PS3 games.
>>64418110
>that pic
So who's Andy Dwyer?
>>64417766
>SHAKE'N'BAKE
>>64418451
Their cellphones sell like shit, must say they have great quality tho
>>64416191
I wrote a paper on Blu-ray for high school in 2005. This was before BD was even released in the US. Even then I predicted it would beat out HD-DVD. and sure enough years later I was right.
any questions?
>>64417334
>If 360 shipped with HD DVD they may have survived.
but ps3 still would have done better than xbox as it always has done.
sony won the console war because of their breadth and scope of organisation across different industries that allowed them to suffer significant losses on the path to market domination
at the time microsoft was a joke up against apple and google
>sonyggers actually think the ps3 helped anything other than just get them fat
>>64421714
No one wants to sell because studios are holding content they believe would make more elsewhere. Also, the studios have a piece of Hulu, unlike Netflix.
>>64416191
Because Sony and the blu-ray consortium promised more DRM on blu-ray hardware and discs. This got them them more studio support.
>>64418779
Sony are dead in Japan, japs rather buy and korean tv/phones than sony, thats how dead they are. In video games Nintendo sell way more than Sony do there.
>>64416191
>Why did the HD DVD die?
Because it was inferior to bluray in every way from storage space to a/v quality to durability.
>I liked it better than Blu Ray
>HD DVD drive for my Xbox 360
That's called post-purchase rationalization. This thread is pretty retarded OP.
>>64418735
No, it's just that the PS3 was cheaper than every standalone player for a long time.
