Best Buy’s push Blu-ray to the forepart
this is stupid. best buy’s been push blu since the first. and they and everyone else cognizes it… wherefore bother denote it nowadays?
Its been all over for about a days today. Wherefore is this surprising to anyone?
what a happenstance… the BEST Purchase advertizing is as well forced to the top of your site right nowadays !!
To get all the fretful HDDVD fanboys cry. It’s Monday, we need something to express joy at.
Not surprising but an official end would be decent and hopefully inexpensive Blu’s would postdate.
@Bob
OMG Engadget-gate.
Shameful!
*looks with partiality at his USD 59 hd-upconverting Videodisc player*
@Ryan Trevisol
@PeterF: I’m shot you do not have one, or a nice show. A good upscaling player more often than not industrial plant better than the reinforced in scaler included with your display, the outcome is not as crisp as dead on target HD but it’s way better than SD on an HD display.
Upscaled Videodiscs are %100 watchable.
The but want to get certain the client is getting the ‘best buy’ and in this instance, it certain the hell on earth is.
Let’s realize Nfinity spin this!
Na Na Na Naaaa, Naaa Naaa Naaa Naaa, Hey Heyyyy, Full by!
You lost a “Hey”
and it’s “Pass” lol
…or, in this example, “buy.”
Good, Best Purchase? Get locomoting with the HD-DVD discounts then.
They may end up pull one of those moves from Preponderating when they locomoted Red exclusive. Think? Overriding jerked all their titles off the ledges and retailers’ warehouses.
Full riddance HD DVD.
court!! were so close i can savor it!
PWNED!!!
Anyone checkered extinct how little the HD-DVD pic part of the HD Endcap is acquiring at Wal-Mart as good?
Today I merely need Universal to realize the light so I can get a remade BSG on Blu-Ray… HD Videodisc variations looks worsened than the unities on UHD…
“…’an mixed bag of HD Videodisk products’ will rest…”
“An variety” will stay until they eventually clear extinct all of their older stock list. Then the balance of that potpourri will be USD 9.99 next to the minute Seagal consecutive to Videodisk flick.
You mean I ca not bask Seagal on the big screen any longer? What has the macrocosm come up to?
Eventually soul who takes account the dory thing.
Unless they get the industries to assist toned the costs of the ironware, what precisely makes BB “encouraging” Blu-ray do? Nowadays convey down the monetary value!!
This only way that I’ll have to hold off until mid-2009 or posterior to get a cost visibility 2.0 BD player. Oh, good. Sayonara, beloved HD Videodisk.
June 21 really… some 2.0 participants were proclaimed at CESs this twelvemonth due to let go of at the USD 300 mark.
USD 300 is not a mass-market acceptance price.
Profile 2.0 entrance market @ USD 300? Not big, I’ll bite on one of those when they drop some other USD 100.
Simply die HD-DVD Die Nowadays!
I dealt my xbox 360 hd dvd addon about five hours earlier the annunciation that Warner was travelling BR exclusive… for only all over USD 130. (In order to give an extra bill, that days)
To the eBayer who occupied hd dvd addon: Bad. 
Wait, so is *this* the final nail in the casket for HD-DVD? I’m so bewildered…
Nope, it’s one of the coffin-bearers falling the already nabbed coffin.
I wonder how voguish of a relocation this is, regarding I about ever buy precisely the opposite of what the Best Purchase idiots propose to me. HD DVD’s replication is on.
You mean you do not buy Goliath Cable and a two twelvemonth warrant for everything you buy there? Profanation!
But the existent query is what about Electrical circuit Metropolis?
Who yields a turd about the numb-nuts at Electric circuit Urban center in any case? They need to go the CompUSA route and vanish.
today thats what i call a secret plan ender to the HD Videodisk camp.
good riddance HD-DVD. having to set up with the cretin fanbois on either face of this format war while the consumer was the only one acquiring cheated has travelled on retentive enough. today please..toshiba. get it official one time and for all so we can all go before and savor our high def DVDs.
Good, we’re not moving to realize lots of B1G1 free gross revenue on Blu-ray disks for a while…
HD-DVD being a legitimate rival, while drawing out the warfare unnecessarily, at least assisted convey prices to a reasonable level.
So I was meter reading this Blu-ray player article this morning time saying that there are three Blu-ray “profiles”: 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0
It states that most Blu-ray participants on the marketplace nowadays (salvage one) are Profile 1.0
Sony’s PS3 is Profile 1.1, but with an approaching microcode update will support Profile 2.0 (too cognized as BD-Live). Yea, we cognise it’s the inexpensive Blu-ray player uncommitted (unless I lost something), but with the power to update your microcode to back up BD-Live/Profile 2.0, it’s besides a voguish buy for future-proofing. Simply an FYI for those, like myself, made not cognise about these ‘Profiles’.
(Note: I say this article in today’s San Jose Quicksilver Intelligence)
No Delirium tremens 4 U…
Profiles are unquestionably perplexing but the way to seem at is that touchstones develop all over time - 802.11, USB, Firewire, Bluetooth etc. Blu Ray profiles are back compatible. You can buy a player nowadays and be certain it will play future disks but lack some functionality or you can hang up on and buy a player that supports a posterior visibility that makes everything.
In person I consider web support is a waste of clip unless it supports mandatory negociated copy. I do not really understand any benefit in lease Warner, Sony, Walter Elias Disney or whoever cognize what I’m observation, or for them to force some lousy line shop onto their disks.
I ca not realize myself selecting a PS3 merely to act Blu-Ray movings only. Given it’s inexpensive nowadays than former blu-ray participants, but I genuinely do not want a Blu-Ray player with a bluetooth distant comptroller that makes not user interface with my existent equipment. Do I in earnest want to go back to having multiple remote controls? And what’s with the curving top?
I believe the best matter to do right today is held back until stand alone participants are far inexpensive.
May be it will be a small just to send about “Urged gift for Valentine’s Hour interval from Hick” ?
They made all over at engadgetHD.com
I simply standard the electronic mail from Netflix a few transactions ago that they were locomoting Blu-ray exclusive.
I have both HD Videodisc and Blu-ray, and I conceive it’s truly unfortunate that HD Videodisc will be travelling the way of the fogy. There are facets of HD Videodisk that are sympathetic to me - first of all it was the in agreement upon spec by the international Videodisk syndicate. The specification for HD DVD appears and I believe is more highly and unchanging - at this point. I’ve had got no job acting HD Videodiscs, with the opposite being dead on target of Blu-ray.
I’m not some HD Videodisc fanboi, but Blu-ray merely has not been as likeable to me. So nowadays what? There are rather a few big-name titles that are HD DVD-exclusive… it would appear legitimate that lots of of those titles will use up A Retentive Clip to transmigrate to Blu-ray, only because the studio apartment makes not want to assist in the previous decease of their own discriminatory and contractually sprang HD standard. Of course of instruction at some item we’ll realize those titles on Blu-ray, but I’m guess at least some other twelvemonth or two at the earlier.
I’ll use Blu-ray alone today because I have to, but there is a relentless vocalization in the back of my mind that maintains locution, “if we could have only deposited to one format from the setting out, then all this money and attempt exhausted by both manufacturers/makers and consumers could have been exhausted far more expeditiously and efficaciously.” Of class that may not be dead on target, and is only surmise, but it looks middling legitimate.
What do you guys believe?
I consider that you are one of the few really insightful subscribers on this web site.
I but wish HD-DVD would have been more winning for price. I in person have dozens upon rafts of early thing I would instead pass my money on than locomoting HD. Nowadays that the far more expensive of the two formats looks to be the superior, it simply way I will be holding back until it is utterly necessary (say when my TV dies) to kick upstairs to HD.
For shame though, that the data format less friendly to independent product is the one being stock for the most (ostensibly) by a postdating that by and large touts itself as being the most indie-friendly crowd.
The Videodisk Assembly (it has not been the “Pool” for a while today) is not some UN-sanctioned, internationally-recognized touchstones physical structure. It’s but a grouping of fellowships - letting in Sony - that acquired unitedly to get an optic disc format about 15 months ago. The fact that they then well to get some other one makes not get them some form of legitimate inheritor to Videodisc.
The Blu-Ray Record Connexion, in fact, has plenty of of the like fellow members as the DVD Meeting place - admitting initiation fellow members Sony and Virgil Garnett Thomson, who unitedly came up up with the technical facets of Videodisk in the first place. If you want to speak about ancestry, Blu-Ray has more of a title on being DVD’s true inheritor than HD-DVD makes. Toshiba has ever been the primary angel of HD-DVD, and they were ever a secondary player in the DVD Meeting place earlier that.
I’m not gonna bother dealings with any of your former items because it would simply occupy excessively tenacious, but I get ill of indication how HD-DVD should have gained because this group of societies that first contrived Videodisk besides excogitated HD-DVD. Because a) it’s not truly dead on target, and b) even if it was, who the snake pit cares? There’s no official sanctionative for the DVD Assembly, it’s simply a clustering of corps that acquired unitedly for the intent of net. The Blu-Ray Record Connexion is perfectly no dissimilar.
I neither have a Blu or HDVD player shortly, but I’ll say ya what…everytime I understand an article on Engadget about the high definition format war, I Ever go to the inputs and say them. It’s better amusement than those subtitled Japanese shows on G4 and Spike TV! Maintain it up guys, cause I’m acquiring my money’s worth all over here! Oh…and by the way, Blu all the way! I saw this coming up when both data formattings were acquainted!