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I still think I made the wrong decision and went with HD DVD, but only time will tell. I'm not buying them both.

I'll continue to buy HD DVD's until the end, but I'm really hoping blu-ray dies in the end]]>Oct 5th 2007 2:57PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/
you would be better off just waiting til combo units dropped and then getting one........aside from my PS3 I would never my a Blu-ray player or HD-DVD player separately........]]>Oct 6th 2007 10:30AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/
studios will blame CE companies, CE companies will blame studios.. just one big happy family hahah.. ]]>Oct 5th 2007 3:14PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/
Gotta love it.]]>Oct 5th 2007 3:24PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/
The funny thing is that despite what all the HD-DVD supporters tout as a finished spec the Blu-Ray system has been dominating the format war.

Shouldn't HD-DVD already have won?

It's a double-edged sword when problems occur with Blu-Ray.Because your saying to yourself even with all these problems HD-DVD can't take the market share for themselves.]]>Oct 5th 2007 3:31PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/
You are absolutely right that HD-DVD should have won this war by now and the only reason it didn't is because of the PS3. Had Sony only included a DVD drive in it then blu-ray would have very little installed base.]]>Oct 5th 2007 3:39PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/
Same could be said for Blu-Ray.. Especially with all the Blu-Ray fanboys always claiming the format war has been over, etc.. Yet BD can't quite pull it off can they?

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Whoever said most consumers would be happy with upconverted DVDs might have been on to something...]]>Oct 5th 2007 4:13PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/Oct 5th 2007 4:21PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/
You're blaming HD-DVD on skipping/freezing when you are getting scratched discs from netflix? That doesn't seem a very fair judgement.]]>Oct 5th 2007 4:21PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/
I am just saying that HD DVD has gotten a lot of complaints about disc-play issues. I don't recall ever having an issue with DVDs from Netflix (when the disc is in one piece heh heh) and Blu Ray has the armor coating. Not to mention many issues with disc play issues on the Xbox add-on. Many disc issues were fixed with firmware updates, but that isn't any different than Fox's dilemma.

FWIW it was almost 8 months before I had issues with Netflix months, and now I have had several, all from fairly new releases.]]>Oct 7th 2007 8:57PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/Big effin' deal. This impacts two Blu-ray player manufacturers...LG and Samsung. It does not impact Sony (including the PS3), Panasonic, or Pioneer.

This kink is nowhere near the monumental impact that was "The Matrix" when it first hit DVD. There were plenty of DVD players - generally the cheapie ones - that wouldn't play it properly, including ones that were still on the retail shelves.
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Consumers say, it's not our fault if you can't sell the buggy coasters you call movies...]]>Oct 5th 2007 8:45PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/
Hey, Fox said no such thing! Read the Video Business article in question. Fox is quoted as saying: "We are releasing more and more advanced interactive titles, and consumers should lobby their hardware manufacturers to release firmware upgrades post haste."

BD+ has nothing to do with interactivity. BD-J has. In other words, Fox is blaming BD-J and does not mention BD+ at all.]]>Oct 6th 2007 6:45AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/Oct 6th 2007 7:40AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/Ohh no, then why did VB say this.

"It’s unclear what specifically is tripping up the players, Fantastic Four does boast some of Fox’s most advanced technology yet, including BD-Java-powered extras and BD+ copy protection."]]>Oct 6th 2007 11:25AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/Oct 6th 2007 12:19PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/
Still, this is stupid. Given that there are like ten models of either format of HD disc players, I think it's realistic to expect studios to do a cursory test of their discs on all the relevant players, especially when you are putting out a previously unused feature or pushing the boundaries of those features, though I should say "feature" as DRM is not a feature that benefits me, and I don't think it really benefits studios either in my opinion.]]>Oct 7th 2007 2:04AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/Oct 7th 2007 10:41AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/Oct 5th 2007 4:22PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/Oct 5th 2007 7:13PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/That is just fine "loading" performance.
Does no one remember when DVD rolled out? It was YEARS before you could get a player that would play all the new discs with "seamless-branching" and other technologies.
The new HD players are selling faster than DVD at it's launch, there is way better title availablity than when DVD launched and the players are much more reliable than when DVD players first launched.]]>Oct 10th 2007 12:05AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/
with that said, i'm not going to fight this format war... i'll be a double agent get great movies now.]]>Oct 10th 2007 12:59PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/10/05/fox-says-its-not-our-fault-if-you-cant-play-our-movies/Oct 11th 2007 1:30AM