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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
redshift @ Feb 8th 2008 5:53AM
Blu-ray will have run its course soon.just a matter of time as HD DVD grows even further as a format with ever more features that bluray is trying desperately to catch up,sadly they have tried and tried and keep failing at it,yet keep charging customers a premium.You can keep fooling the public only so long before everybody just says
'p*** off Sony'or bluray for that matter.
There will be more combos entering the market as it will be a good for HD DVD
DrXym @ Feb 8th 2008 6:40AM
Supporting HD DVD does not mean the format is going to some a lazarus magic act. Lots of computer players support DVD-RAM too, but who cares about that format?
John B @ Feb 8th 2008 8:22AM
A "lazarus act" implies that death has taken place, which is not the case, as much as you keep wishing it would. It would be more accurate to say that dual drives will take HD DVD from "critical" to "stable" condition.
DrXym @ Feb 8th 2008 9:19AM
John B, HD DVD is as good as dead. If you prefer not calling it dead, then terminal is all you could claim.
A hybrid drive will not change that situation one jot. HD DVD support might sway some people who have existing HD DVDs but for most people it will be a non-feature like DVD-RAM support is in existing DVD drives.
John B @ Feb 8th 2008 10:06AM
Jesus, your desire to be a vulture knows no bounds.
Last I heard, Paramount, Universal, and the BBC are still releasing for HD DVD. That hardly makes it a dead format -- yet, and that's all that I was saying. Your continual lust for its death (as opposed to a more respectable position of cohabitation, e.g. DVD+/-R) shows your own blindness and bias like just about no one else on this place.
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