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Paramount seals Blu-ray sweep

Paramount is announcing new HD DVD releases. After Toshiba officially quit the format. Either colossal incompetence, magnanimous goodwill, or blatant legal maneuvering. I don't think it's the first two.

Toshiba got nothing (yet). Their main financial incentive is to stop the operating losses in the HD DVD business. (Surprise, surprise, $99 players with 7 free movies works out to be quite a bit below cost.) Now, somewhere down the line Toshiba might dip their toes in the Blu-ray IP pool by...

The final collapse of HD DVD is like a domino chain reaction. We don't know if Paramount or Universal are the next dominoes in line, but rest assured they're all falling over.

Is this the best you can do? Draw a false generalization based on one high-end player? I wish allargon and all the other DVD-bloods would make an appeal to DVD manufacturers to lowering the effing hardware costs--seriously--$2k for an upconverting DVD player? Marantz America | DV9600...

Hybrid CD/SACD are common enough that you probably have a couple in you CD collection without even realizing it. (i.e. the Rolling Stones catalog reissues)

You can easily get it in Blu-ray as Warner holds the international rights and does not implement region coding. Amazon.co.uk: Beowulf [Blu-ray] [2007]: DVD: Ray Winstone,Angelina Jolie,Anthony Hopkins,Robin Wright Penn,Brendan Gleeson,Robert Zemeckis

You should look into get a 20GB or 60GB PS3 since you mention CD playback is important. Those models also have SACD support which was removed in the later 40GB and 80GB revisions.

Units: 66 - Blu-ray Disc - 16,496 units 34 - HD-DVD - 8,639 units Revenue: (What the retailer's really care about) 84 - Blu-ray Disc - $6,033,540 16 - HD-DVD - $1,182,248 How is this good news for HD DVD again?

At least go back and get it price matched. Circuit City has clearanced their HD DVD players so you likely have a $50-$100 credit waiting for you depending on what model your purchased.

"If you truly believe HD DVD is cooked--which, unfortunately, I do--the smart move is to get what you can for what you've got while the gettin' is still relatively good." - David Carnoy Executive editor, CNET Reviews HD DVD: Buy, sell, or hold? - Fully Equipped - CNET reviews

It's not one particular store. Even die-hard HD DVD guys like Kosty are admitting that the clearance tags are in their store.

Let the images speak for themselves. High-Def Digest Forums - View Single Post - Circuit City: 3rd-Gen HD DVD players on Clearance

Are you that desperate? The physical layer of the disc has more than enough error correction as does the HDMI transport.

No, but what's your plan for 3-5 years from now when your HD DVD player starts skipping, refusing to play certain discs, etc. and eventually fails? Do you really expect anyone to be around producing HD DVD players so you can buy a replacement and continue to enjoy your library? Will you...

For what it's worth, here's a direct quote from an NPD vice-president confirming they track Amazon sales. "In any given year, we typically add a few retailers and lose one or two," explained Martin Zagorsek, Vice President, Games & Software at The NPD Group. "This year both the adds (e.g...

Fail. That was added by the author of the story, Nate Mook. Stephen Baker, the VP of industry analysis at NPD, did not proffer any quotes relating to Amazon.

Yeah, he gets a little hyper. But seriously, there's a lot of people with the perception that there's no way HD DVD can win now and Toshiba and Ken Graffeo are being sore losers.

I love the infinite optimism of HD DVD boosters. What Warner says: Catalog releases will be delayed by 3 weeks as part of their efforts to favor Blu-ray. What HD DVD boosters hear: Wahoo! 3 more weeks of support, today. Tomorrow they'll come around, fire the executives that decided to back...

29 of 40 Paramount releases are available on Blu-ray. 3 out of 7 Dreamworks releases are available on Blu-ray.

Actual Numbers The Digitals Bits just posted the actual standalone unit numbers, let's see how Baghdad Vurbano spins these: January Week 2: Blu-ray Disc - 21,770 units HD-DVD - 1,758 units - LOL :p Month of December: Blu-ray Disc - 115,132 units HD-DVD - 76,148 units

At this point the remaining HD DVD boosters are playing the part of Baghdad Bob. While everybody else sees their brick and mortar retailers adjusting shelving to favor Blu-ray, they swear that their Best Buy is a 50:50 split, the HD DVDs are flying off the shelf, and the Blu-ray racks are dusty...

False. Anchorman was never released on Blu-ray.

I'm more annoyed by vurbano starting a dozen threads a day than anything else.

So what? They're the only manufacturer of their format. Toshiba led the Amazon rankings the entire holiday season too. The HD DVD boosters crowed that as proof that HD DVD dominated standalone sales. Then Toshiba's own slides proved that back in reality Blu-ray, with their broad CE support...