http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/ Engadget HD Comments for HD DVD's online content reaches 30% of owners, on average http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/Dec 4th 2007 11:23AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/Dec 4th 2007 11:34AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/
I say buy them only for the content on the disc…]]>Dec 4th 2007 11:35AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/
But I'm already Blu.. so it doen't matter.

Go!Blu Wuhu!]]>Dec 4th 2007 11:39AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/Dec 4th 2007 11:42AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/
- Genuine laugh out loud moment there.

Your delusion is genuinely hilarious.

The game console format is not taking the adult a/v market, HD DVD quietly continues to do so as prices continue to fall to the point where SD DVD pricing and HD DVD pricing are indistinguisable (making the choice of a new SD DVD player pointless).
That is the HD DVD strategy.

This comparison between the 2 is laughable.

UMD outsells both high def formats combined (just as VHS video tape did until very recently) but it is of no consequence either.

So big deal, the PS3 format sold a few more PS3s and the game console owners bought a few more discs.
It really doesn't matter in this.

Blu-ray is driving up a dead-end, game consoles don't spread very far being gamers.
That's the truth of the matter.]]>Dec 4th 2007 11:42AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/Dec 4th 2007 11:43AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/Dec 4th 2007 11:55AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/
Imagine anyone calling the game console format for what it is.]]>Dec 4th 2007 12:02PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/
The downloadable Transformers features are actually pretty cool. One of them is a GPS to show you where the action is, along with a pop-up video-like commentary under the video.]]>Dec 4th 2007 11:44AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/Dec 4th 2007 11:45AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/Dec 4th 2007 11:51AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/
I still have plenty of storage on my machine. I've downloaded the Locator feature on Transformers, all of the Shrek the Third content, and I still have loads of space left.]]>Dec 4th 2007 12:08PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/
Happy Holidays, Sybil. Did you enjoy Turkey Day? I love how you knock Red's ability to do many things out of the box that your Profile 1.0 Blu player can't. Did you already shell out another $500-600 for a Profile 1.1 player yet? Or are you waiting for Profile 2.0? I'm sure as soon as you do, you won't wait to tell us all about it!

BTW, did you watch "Hot Fuzz" yet? Get over the title. It's a very funny movie.]]>Dec 4th 2007 7:42PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/
What is with this bizarre and unfounded presumption that adults don't play games?]]>Dec 4th 2007 1:06PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/I'll go for the movie only and don't actually care about downloadable content.
I can access downloadable content by using the browser of my PS3 or my laptop.

Thumbs up for Blu-ray ;-)]]>Dec 4th 2007 12:07PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/Dec 4th 2007 12:45PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/
I'll stick with the movie itself in the best possible picture and sound, and that is Blu-ray. Uncompressed on 86% of releases (see formatwars). Hd-dvd is around 26%. I know where I am getting my money's worth. Plus, I couldn't have lived without Cars, Ratatouille, Die Hard, Pirates and Close Encounters No way!

I see the software sales for Thanksgiving week were 73% blu-ray and 27% hd-dvd. Even the 150 million Paramount deal with Transformers and Shrek 3 could not stop the big blu sky. Blu's numbers got even better during the release of these 2 titles.

In 2008, blu-ray players will match hd-dvd players in price. All special features will be the same, but the content advantage, which is most important, is in blu favor. You have the catalogs of 20th Century Fox, MGM, United Artists, Disney, Touchstone, Miramax, Columbia Pictures, all exclusive to blu. Content is the big factor, not player price, and blu-ray has it!]]>Dec 4th 2007 12:16PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/
Until (if?) Blu-ray gets them, then they're staggeringly 'advanced', amazing and so incredibly useful & cool.

Yeah right.

The game console format, always 'going to', sometime next year, perhaps.]]>Dec 4th 2007 12:19PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/
"My format is better than your format."
"No, my format is better than your format."
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
"Yeah, well, my daddy can beat up your format!"
"Nuh uh. My daddy can beat up your format!"

Pathetic.]]>Dec 4th 2007 12:35PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/Dec 4th 2007 2:27PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/
That is a seperate issue.

The fact remains that the PS3 is primarily a kids/adolescents game console.

....and that Blu-ray is utterly dependent on it; without the PS3 Blu-ray died long ago.

Blu-ray is a game console format, not a serious contender for the adult a/v market.
All the relative gains and progress they tout is just them driving ever further up that deadend.
It's about as significant as UMD sales numbers in the end. ]]>Dec 4th 2007 5:45PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/
Having to download it everytime(as the built in storage does not hold much) seems ridiculous.

Not to mention I don't know anyone with a network port in their living room. ]]>Dec 4th 2007 1:26PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/Dec 4th 2007 1:57PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/12/04/hd-dvds-online-content-reaches-30-of-owners/
You BR fans amaze me, 'BR is soooo much better because it does not have next generation features and we don't want them'.
The facts are all BR players are poorly specified & obsolete 1.1 spec, and it's far more expensive then it's opposition,...WTF????

There would be no format war if it was not for sonys greed, sony and the BDA created this mess, they have snowed you all with a ridiculously over priced DRM infested DVD player, yet you all defend it as if some one was attacking your homes or something, why?? I just don't get it

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