http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/ Engadget HD Comments for Poll: So, what are you HD DVD early adopters going to do? 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/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/Feb 16th 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/Feb 16th 2008 12:45PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
No it isn't and Sony is letting their game division slide because they are pushing Blu-Ray so much. Since their launch, they have already had 4 different SKUs and that was before it was even out for a year. They are stripping out backwards compatibility and telling people that if they want to play older games that they have get a PS2 when backwards compatibility was a major thing when the PS2 game out. It is like Sony saying "Screw you if you want backwards compatibility, go buy a PS2 to go with that $500 paperweight."]]>Feb 16th 2008 12:51PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/Feb 16th 2008 12:58PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
Lets put it this way. I have a 360 and that is going to get all the games I want. I have supported Playstation in the past and I know that my system gets very little use till I get a new game and then once I finish that, it goes unused again. For me, the PS3 would be a paperweight most of the time as I do not buy movies that often and I am just going to start before HD-DVD dies completely.]]>Feb 16th 2008 1:09PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
Unless you were a super early adopter (paying 400-500+ for your HD player) I really don't see the big deal at all.]]>Feb 16th 2008 1:19PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
But the PS3 is an extremely capable, multi-talented and reliable device. Its equally at home playing games, or movies and I don't see the conflict in Sony promoting a device that does more than one thing and does them all well.

I have to wonder when / if Microsoft will produce a Blu Ray add on for the 360. If they had brains they'd revamp the Elite and build-in a Blu Ray drive. The PS3 is cheaper than an Elite and does so much more. Microsoft need to fight back because their lineup is starting to look pretty ropey.]]>Feb 16th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
i'm not mad i didn't wait out the fight. i'm more mad that i'm on the losing side =(]]>Feb 16th 2008 1:30PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/excellent point. blu-ray add on would keep me from getting a ps3. what if they released a combo drive? that would ease the pain =)]]>Feb 16th 2008 1:34PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/excellent point. blu-ray add on would keep me from getting a ps3. what if they released a combo drive? that would ease the pain =)]]>Feb 16th 2008 1:34PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
The 360 has Bioshock, Halo 3, Gears of War, and Mass Effecta along with 3 Jpn style RPG's. Other then that, their games are all meh, or multi platform like COD4.]]>Feb 16th 2008 2:00PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
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Well I am sorry Static, I am not made of money like every other gamer in the world. The money I make has to be put aside so that I can get the hardware and software that I need to move forward and make more money, especially when Apple is way overpriced. I am not part of the consumer group that can buy a HDTV and turn around to buy a PS3 with 30 movies right off the bat. I waited because I could not afford a PS3 and I still think that Blu-ray should have not been forced on gamers when a majority do not have HDTVs.


@Cheese Head

I understand that you and many other consider it a good value. For the time being I can live with multiplatform games and exclusives to the 360. Most of the games I play are because I can play with my friends and I only have 1 friend that has a PS3.
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Regardless, I'm not sorry I bought the HD-A2. It's STILL the best upconverting SD DVD player I own. Just putting that out there considering they're about to be $4 LoL]]>Feb 16th 2008 2:42PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
MEANWHILE, I went purple last December with a Panasonic DMP-BD30K. All hooked into a Denon 3808 which will turn any of it into lossless audio. I would have gone with a cheaper Onkyo (also handling all lossless formats), but they don't play well with DirecTV DVRs.

And I will probably snap up any closeouts on HD DVD. Any disc I want and can get under $10 is worth any risk. By the time there's a problem, BDs will be cheap, or so they tell me. I fully expect that my A35 will last quite some time, and that Toshiba will have replacement HD DVD players available if I need one.

SONY sold it's last Betamax deck in 2002, 15 years or more after Beta "died." I would expect the same support from Toshiba.

I really don't understand the article's view that HD DVD adopters need to melt their discs and players down and switch. Purple is still an option, shading to blue.]]>Feb 16th 2008 2:46PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/Feb 16th 2008 2:48PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
I am pretty sure that at the rate we are going, by the time it dies on me, digital downloads would be what everyone is doing as much as I hate to think it. If it breaks it breaks but I tend to keep my stuff in working order longer than most.]]>Feb 16th 2008 2:51PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/You just get more choices.

But in Europe we can only buy the 40 GB, in US both 40 GB and 80 GB, and in Japan 40 GB.
Yes that's alot ;)]]>Feb 16th 2008 2:53PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/Feb 16th 2008 2:56PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/Apple gets criticized for a price drop on the iPhone because it retroactively penalizes early adopters.
Sony drops some backwards compatability and gets critisized because it penalizes people who couldn't commit and were waiting for a price drop.
Which way are we going on all this complaining?
If you jumped on the early adoption bandwagon of blu-ray, congratulations.
I remember when my mother paid $600 for a VCR. I hear VHS is going the way of HD-DVD now. I think she might be complaining about being an early adopter of video tech.

Whatever Mom. Suck it up already



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For example: why does PS3 support TrueHD and not DTS-MA, when DTS-MA is the favored blu-ray disc format? To fully play discs on a lot of BD players (not just PS3), you need to spend about $1000 on a proper AV receiver form Onkyo or Denon.

The HD-A35 and XA2 both had all audio formats decoded inside, so all you needed was a 5.1 amp.

As usual, this ability is still in blu-ray's future.]]>Feb 16th 2008 3:11PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
That was 15-20 years after Betamax was dead. They did this to support their millions of Beta customers, not because they were still trying to "win."

Why do people think that Toshiba is so stupid as to piss off their last supporters? They will be making a HD DVD player well into the next decade, so that their customers have a way to get replacements.

And there is always eBay, where you can STILL get a working Betamax player.]]>Feb 16th 2008 3:17PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
If you are made of money and have unlimited space for stuff feel free to accept it. I still honestly think Sony has made some big mistakes so far in changes they have made just so they could push Blu-ray when it was going to be around as long as the PS3 was anyways.]]>Feb 16th 2008 3:17PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
There's only the little issue that overall the Sony gaming division is creaming MS's gaming division in total number of units of consoles sold. They recently started turning a profit overall and most indications are that they're making a profit on each individual PS3 now (or at least, not losing money) due to many cost saving initiatives. There's also the little issue of both PS units outselling the 360 last month. There's that one other point that now that BD won, a lot of mainstreamers sitting on the fence as far as which console to buy will get the one that also gives them a better movie experience. Or they will buy the PS3 solely as a BD player and possibly discover the pretty good to awesome games available.

Other than those minor points tho, you're totally right. Sony is screwing over their game division to push Blu-ray.]]>Feb 16th 2008 4:02PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
It's almost like the stock market! Maybe best to include your Xbox360 with your HD-DVD before that one becomes obsolete as well, it might convince some retards to actually purchase your HD-DVD.]]>Feb 16th 2008 5:29PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/I'm a sony consumer.
I'm on my third ps2. When this ps2 dies, maybe i'll get a fourth one- maybe not.
Prices drop. Hardware improves and gets cheaper. That's the nature of tech.
By the time the PS3 game game developers catch up to the possibilities of the cell processor, ps3's will be cheap enough that by waiting for the good games i'll be further out ahead by buying a ps2 and a ps3 than if i had spent $600 on a 60GB but since i've got a working ps2 i'm ahead already.
It's not sony that's screwing the early adopters.
The early adopters were rewarded by sony with a ps2 backwards compatible machine.
Why is it no one applauds Sony for that.

Early adopters were rewarded for purchasing a machine that helped sony win the "format war" and those of us that wait get a cheaper gaming machine and an improved Blu-ray player - but no hardware decoding for PS2. It's a trade off.
Sony and LED manufacturer Nichia have already come up with a smaller laser. IBM's new 45nm Cell will use about 40 percent less power than its 65nm predecessor. Both of these advancements make the playstation3 form smaller, cheaper and/or cheaper to run.

It's us late adopters that screw the early adopters. Not Sony.


(On a sidenote, now that my quest to find a a copy of Fatal Frame was succesful, my need for a PS2 will drop exponentially once i've finished it.)





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I got in to HD DVD originally because got a great deal on an HD-A1 (under $100 off ebay). I figured, I can enjoy my current collection with decent upconverting, and enjoy HD rentals from Blockbuster online which I was already paying for anyway (and which they haven't dropped yet) and when the format war was settled, I would just go from there.
The only titles I've purchased were The Bourne Trilogy, the Matrix trilogy, 300, and Transformers, and those were all on some kind of discount, so I don't feel like I'm losing a whole lot of investment.]]>Feb 16th 2008 8:09PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/Feb 16th 2008 9:02PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/





]]>Feb 17th 2008 12:55AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/I have to wonder when / if Microsoft will produce a Blu Ray add on for the 360. If they had brains they'd revamp the Elite and build-in a Blu Ray drive. The PS3 is cheaper than an Elite and does so much more. Microsoft need to fight back because their lineup is starting to look pretty ropey.
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They would only put an external drive for that as blu-ray would be incompatible with EVERY single Xbox360 game made so far.

The biggest thing that disapoints me about this. I still need 2 products to play DVD's and BRD's Wich is a huge pain in the ... I preferred the HD-DVD option because you only needed one piece of hardware, as HD-DVD players were backwards compatible with DVD's, BRD's are not compatible.
Bad choice on the Studio's as they are really choosing the brand most likely to fatten their back pockets.]]>Feb 20th 2008 1:01AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
Kick-ass BluRay player + WiFi streaming media player + next gen console = $399. That's not bad at all.
If MS were to add an external BD player to the XBox, you'd have to spend like $700 to get the same at the PS3. Xbox with Harddrive + Wifi card + BD add on, etc...]]>Feb 17th 2008 6:44PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/Feb 16th 2008 12:45PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/Make things hard for consumers and someone will make it hard for you.]]>Feb 16th 2008 1:21PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
As a PS2 and XBox360 owner, a PS3 could be possible. But not until a firmware upgrade that lets PS3 output pure bitstream via HDMI (DTS-HD MA Bitstream for example). Hell, I might even accept internal encoding output (of DTS-HD MA) as LPCM via HDMI (as my Onkyo TX-SR875 would work with that).

Amazing to me that Sony has been pushing HD audio quality of Blu-Ray, but doesn't even fully support it out of the box.]]>Feb 16th 2008 1:27PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
The PS3 will never be capable of bitstreaming HD audio unless they change the hdmi 1.3 port to a newer one. And who cares if the PS3 decodes it?]]>Feb 16th 2008 2:13PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
Optical perhaps?

The PS3's HDMI is HDMI 1.3a, is this not capable?]]>Feb 17th 2008 8:19AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
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As for the HD DVDs themselves, I'm hoping to capitalize on Netflix and retailers ditching HD DVDs in an effort to get some titles for cheap (Heroes S1 and Battlestar Galactica, anyone?)]]>Feb 16th 2008 12:46PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
I also got my PS3 from my fiance this past X-mas, so this news doesn't sting having both players already. I also put off buying any movies for either format until recently, so my total investment 'pre-fallout' is minimal.

If anything, I look forward to getting some great deals on cheap HD-DVD discs. I can always plug the drive to my PC and rip them to another format later when physical media becomes 'so last gen'. I just hope the lack of competition doesn't have us remembering the good ol' days when Blu-ray movies were 'only' 30 bucks.
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I have both players... the future is NOT on a disk. I could care less who wins or loses... downloads are fine for me with my 70" 1080p upscaling TV.
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Now a couple of years later with a broken laser disc player which nobody can repare anymore I am stuck with an investment in laser-discs, no longer have a player, and those titles I had on laser-disc are now so dirt cheap, that it doesn't even justify reparing the laser-disc player OR picking one up cheap on ebay.

Bottomline, it is money lost investing in a format that is declared dead.

Only way around it would be to hook a HD-drive up to your mac or PC and back-up those titles for years to come. No idea if that's possible though.

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Plus, they'll go great with your LaserDisc collection.]]>Feb 16th 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
If you have a lot of HDDVDs (50+), you may be better advised on getting a cheap HD-A35 so that they can be played in style, and keep your current player as a backup.

And of course, move to blu.]]>Feb 16th 2008 3:21PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/ Blu-Ray and that I can snag a 360 HD add-on USB drive, and that it keeps working until BD burners are more reasonable in price ;-) After all, eventually I'll want a nice BD drive for backups and whatnot.

Remember, that's not piracy. As screwed up as US law is now, and as much as studios state otherwise, it's okay to back up the media I pay for, and I would consider a conversion of obsolete discs to viable disks to be protection of investment. Not that I have that many discs, but I don't intend to re-purchase stuff like King Kong, Serenity, and the Harry Potter titles I have.

And what am I planning to do? As you can see, it's not to get rid of the player--far from it. I have a feeling that manufacturers and retailers are going to want to unload Profile 1.1 players before you know it, and I've changed my mind about waiting for Profile 2.0, really. After all, from what I've seen of the live features on HD DVD, and guessing that it'll be a similar situation for BD Live, I don't really give a rip if my player can order, say, custom Dumbledore's Army ringtones, so a Profile 1.1 player would be perfectly acceptable...hopefully not too many people will catch onto that, or we won't see firesales LOL

Does anyone else out there feel that, in the rush to outdo each other, these two (soon to be one, I suppose) formats gained a lot of pointless features?

Here's hoping the Tolkien estate does NOT get the LOTR BD set axed. The DVD edition has neat features, and I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do with an enhanced feature set.]]>Feb 17th 2008 2:08AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/Feb 17th 2008 12:31PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/
I plan on keeping and using it as a DVD player until Blu-ray is under $150.]]>Feb 16th 2008 12:49PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/02/16/poll-so-what-are-you-hd-dvd-early-adopters-going-to-do/Feb 16th 2008 2:18PM