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Warner Backs Blu-Ray. End Times For HD-DVD?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sure-why-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The NY Times reports: In addition to Apple, Warner Brothers is now going to throw its weight behind the Blu-ray format for high-definition disks. Warner has been the only major studio to publish its movies in both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. Today, the studio announced that from now on, it would only issue movies in Blu-ray. Richard Greenfield, the media analyst with Pali Research, wrote that this marks the end of the format wars: "We expect HD DVD to 'die' a quick death.""

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  1. Re:Dear Hollywood by nagora · · Score: 2, Funny
    DVD is good enough for me. I've yet to impressed enough with HD to replace my tv or media

    Indeed. I was in Curry's yesterday and walked around all their HD TV's, playing HD sources. Talk about unimpressed! What is the point? I have a 22-year-old CRT TV and the picture quality on it is not even apparently lower than most of the LCD/Plasma screens I saw yesterday and those that were better had such a small advantage that I'd have to win one for it to be worth upgrading.

    TWW

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  2. Re:Sony formats by sgant · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, Sony needs luck...poor poor company. On it's last legs...barely alive....struggling...

    Oh wait...Sony?

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  3. Screw Blu-Ray... by yeremein · · Score: 2, Funny

    Screw HD-DVD too.

    I'm holding out for Gamma-Ray.

  4. Well guess what ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    YOU wasted 99 bucks. Sucker. But you can enjoy your free copies of HDDVD "Gigli" and "Flashdance" for at least 4 or 5 years until the thing takes a crap.

    1. Re:Well guess what ? by IrquiM · · Score: 2, Funny

      $100 is a lot! A lot of beer! or just over 1 hour overtime at work

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    2. Re:Well guess what ? by clang_jangle · · Score: 2, Funny

      nobody in their right mind would buy a 1950s TV set for everyday use.


      I watch my 1956 Philco exclusively, you insensitive clod!
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    3. Re:Well guess what ? by dangitman · · Score: 2, Funny

      Both had their advantages and disadvantages, and they were never as hugely different as many fanboys of both formats made them out to be.

      Wait, this crap has fanboys??? Ye Gods.

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  5. Ever Try To Fit A Hard Drive In A DVD Tray? by Skeetskeetskeet · · Score: 0, Funny

    WD40 helps, but not much.

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  6. Hell Freezing Over? Sony Actually WON!? by StCredZero · · Score: 4, Funny

    A Sony format WON!? Did Nostradamus talk about this? Maybe Sony Blu-Ray DRM is the "Seventh Seal?"

  7. sure they look fine... by Reverend528 · · Score: 4, Funny

    DVDs look great on my HDTV (40" LCD).
    Sure they look fine, but they don't support the 96 kHz audio sampling rate. By sticking with DVDs, you're missing out on a vast spectrum of inaudible sound.
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    1. Re:sure they look fine... by antibryce · · Score: 2, Funny

      That added spectrum sounds like nothing else. I can't wait till a remastered version of John Cage's 4'33" is released for it.

  8. Re:Hell Freezing Over? Sony Actually WON!? by The+Clockwork+Troll · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am a big fan of their screwdrivers work. My understanding is that they had a lot of influence over the design of the popular cammed cross tool.

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  9. Re:I knew it... by Mex · · Score: 4, Funny

    What?

    NO! Don't be a pawn! Do not wait for these wars to be over! You are essential to success! Be a soldier, mister! Drop down and give me 20 (dollars) for your old movies that you had to buy again!

    Only YOU can decide who wins this war!

    - This message brought to you by the MPAA. Buy more movies plz k thx bye

  10. The truth about this war by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think we all should acknowledge the naked truth about this format war.

    Blu-ray is winning against HD-DVD because it has a cooler name and a cooler logo.

  11. Re:Hell Freezing Over? Sony Actually WON!? by SP33doh · · Score: 2, Funny

    just like spdif (Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format)

  12. UOP: Press a key, see a Danish letter by tepples · · Score: 2, Funny

    [With DVD] I don't(generally) have fast forward through ten minutes of outdated ads Instead, you may have to sit through them. On some discs, pressing next chapter, search forward, menu, or title during the commercials results in a big Ø in the corner of the screen.
  13. Re:It's assholes like you by MBraynard · · Score: 3, Funny

    So you got burned on betamax, did you?

  14. Re:Hell Freezing Over? Sony Actually WON!? by Nazlfrag · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, we here at slashdot have forgiven Microsoft all their evils. That borg look we gave Bill is just because robots are cool, almost as cool as Microsoft. 2008 will be the year of the Microsoft desktop as we wipe linux off for the awesomely secure power of Vista. Sony taught us that it is right and good that powerful multinationals treat their customers as criminals, as it should be. All is well in slashland, all we need now is to bring the ponies back.

    Oh, and Cthulu needs not the puny votes of mortal flesh.