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BD v. HD

roguerower

roguerower

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Like my post below indicates, I got the LG BD/HD/DVD burner disk drive. I've been watching BD disks and they've been amazing but looking on amazon they are expensive. HD on the other hand are cheap now that they "lost" the format war. Is the quality worse or can I buy the cheaper disks and and not notice anything?
 
By HD do you mean HD-DVD? There not really that much of a difference if any between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. Just use the HD-DVD if your player supports it.
 
Unless you're a shut in I don't see the point of buying HD DVD at this point. Sure I own an A3...and I have some movies for it when it was still in the running. However the fact that those movies are tied to the set that player is connected to and that I can't lend/bring them over to a buddies house to watch is annoying enough that I would not consider buying more movies on HD DVD.
 
Originally posted by: PurdueRy
Unless you're a shut in I don't see the point of buying HD DVD at this point. Sure I own an A3...and I have some movies for it when it was still in the running. However the fact that those movies are tied to the set that player is connected to and that I can't lend/bring them over to a buddies house to watch is annoying enough that I would not consider buying more movies on HD DVD.
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Yep, agree with all that, no upgrade path means there's really no point in buying HD-DVD now, unless you plan on porting your current HD-DVD solution to all of your future A/V solutions in the next 5-10 years.

To the OP: If the price of BD are prohibitive (Amazon typically has the best prices imo), I'd highly recommend subscribing from Netflix or Blockbuster Online. For a little less than $20 a month (1 BD a month), you can have up to 3 movies out at a time. I probably average 6-9 movies per month depending how diligent I am with watching and returning movies, which is far cheaper than buying everything I want to watch. Now I only buy my favorite movies and rent the rest.
 
I was an early adopter of Blu-Ray, but I bought two HD-DVD players for about $100 each about a year ago, and have been enjoying HD-DVD movies from $5-12 ever since (as Fry's closes them out).

Yes, it is a serious consideration that the format is dead, but Blu-Ray doesn't appear to be coming down any time soon, and I now have about 40 movies in HD-DVD that I paid about 30% of what I would have paid on Blu-Ray.

And by the way, don't expect Blu to last forever...particularly if they keep movie prices high while on-demand/downloaded movies are coming on fast. Sony could screw up a 2 horse caravan.
 
Quality is the same. I still buy HD DVD for my BH200, but then I have a plan to convert to BD when/if the HD DVD player dies. Conversion via xBOX 360 HD DVD drive.
 
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