What are your HD DVD memmories.Anything worth owning there, any curiosity?
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HD DVD sucked. Real chads went all in on D-VHS.
The biggest misstep was that they pushed DVD too early. They were eager to make money and DVD with menus and special features felt futuristic, but if these morons had waited a few years we could have made the jump to HD straight from tapes, and people would have adopted it more widely. Instead what happened?>DVD doesn't become accessible until 1999 and isn't even the majority of movie sales until 2001 >by 2004 they're already pushing a new HD format that they had specced a year prior, btw you need a different player for this>consumer adoption is low especially because your video quality has outpaced TV screen tech>studios don't even bother getting behind HD-DVD en masse as Sony reveals Blu-ray and most would wait for a format war to shake out>2006-2009 is a format war for what's basically a niche market, nomovies and people don't even realize they own Blu-ray players in their PS3, meanwhile everyone just keeps buying $15 DVDs>by the time Blu-ray has the whole market by the balls, streaming is here to eat it's lunchJust stupid, people would have survived just fine watching VHS on their tube TVs into 2004, at which point the whole industry could have gotten behind hidef discs. Of course, Sony was being greedy with Blu-ray but that's besides the point, a format war wouldn't have been so catastrophic with such a leap in tech.
>>219241947>The biggest misstep was that they pushed DVD too early.stopped reading right there the only reason they lost is because blu ray was backed by sony and sony also has a movie studio so when it came time for the then 6 or so major movie studios to choose what format to support sony already had their own before even having to worry about the others. and the ps3 also supported blu ray. basically sony used their other divisions to quicken the adoption of blu ray by consumers whereas microsoft didnt have the same conveniences
HD DVD just makes me think of Jay Baruchel's rant in Topic Thunder. He adlibbed this whole speech about HD DVD being superior Bluray but by the time the movie came out it had clearly gone the other way so they had to edit it so he favored Bluray.
I don't know anyone personally that ever had one of theseit was dvd then straight to Blu-ray
>>219241991Yeah, I can tell you stopped reading because you didn't even understand the crux of my argument. Sony backed betamax and owned their studio back then too, but it didn't matter. It almost wouldn't have mattered for BD, HDDVD had more studios behind it with better IP to begin with, but they defected once it was clear dedicated player sales were stalling out and at least the PS3 was a trojan horse. Again, Sony was desperate to push the format via the console but most people didn't know or care that they had a BD player. Microsoft wasn't the major backer of HD-DVD anyway, the format was created by the DVD consortium, mainly Toshiba and Phillips. The 360 had it's peripheral player released simply as an answer to the PS3, not because MS had a monied interest in it. My point was that DVD was pushed very quickly by every studio because the discs were cheap to make but that was a mistake, because it caused a shift in formats that was then immediately superceded by HD formats, which became a big ask for both studios and consumers to get behind. If DVD has been left as a niche LD-esque format for collectors and Toshiba/Philips/Sony had convinced studios to stick with tapes while they made HD possible, adoption of the standalone players would have been better. Instead we were being asked to buy a brand new player and more expensive movies three years after already buying new players and movies, for a format that could display images at resolutions that were nearly 3x higher than the average consumer's TV could even display. Waiting until 2004 to push a new gen on people would have aligned with the wider shift to 720p flat panel tech, and future proofed the format. Instead, Blu-ray took over right as 1080p was becoming passe.>>219242196That was Justin Long.
>>219241236get some rest anon, u look tired
>>219242333Thanks for spying on me, I will.
What's the last movie you watched on VHS? For me it was Home Alone 2, by myself in the basement. I knew it was the last time I'd be watching that tape... it felt bittersweet.
>>219241236I bought a player when the format was already on the downslope and bundling several movies with the purchase of a player. The best thing I can say about it is it does a great job upscaling regular DVDs. I made regular use of the player until Netflix ended their DVDs by mail business in 2023.
>>219242642Street Fighter Alpha or II in a garage. Still will but I need to set up my things.
my only "memory" is there's still a bunch of shit only available in 720p because it was only re-released on hddvd and that's the most it could hold
UMD was robbed
>>219241236I pirated some encodes.
>>219241236Got a huge haul for cheap back when blu-ray was still expensive
>>219242642Demons 2.
>>219241236Challenging the giants of disc media was a retarded idea. There's no way to even get started competing at their scale and expertise.
I got an HD-DVD copy of Planet Earth for my birthday. We didn't even have an HD-DVD player so I could never watched it. When my family finally upgraded, we went with blu-ray obviously.
>>219241686This was the superior format.
>>219249488Toshiba was one of the optical media giants at the time, the issue was that the DVD Forum was loaded with cheapskate retards who wanted HD DVD because it was cheaper to make DVD-9s and use existing laser tech than commit to the Blu-ray group. Yet they still chose to invest in BD and try to push it as a format for recording while HD DVD would be for prerecorded media, all because studios like Warners didn't want to lose at most 15 cents per copy on manufacturing BDs instead. Meanwhile BD was being backed by every electronics company on the Forum besides Toshiba themselves and would have hit the market first had Sony not insisted on their disc caddy autism for several years.
>>219251863See >>219250999Caddies are sovl
