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Both formats failed in the marketplace because neither achieved "critical mass."

Anyone wanna buy a thousand or so Laserdiscs... cheap?

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It sure seems like the hardware vendors have chosen blu-ray. Look at the number of blu-ray players that are announced, add the number of blu-ray burners, and now add apple. ]]>Jul 11th 2006 8:11PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/11/selectavision-videodiscs-vs-laserdisc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/11/selectavision-videodiscs-vs-laserdisc/
You all and your fancy anamorphic widescreen and 7.1 surround sound!

I can take a head off with my laserdisc, what can you do with your puny HD-DVD or Blu-Ray?!]]>Jul 12th 2006 10:34AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/11/selectavision-videodiscs-vs-laserdisc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/11/selectavision-videodiscs-vs-laserdisc/CED failed because RCA failed to deliver on its promise of $5 titles.

My dad bought a CED machine over LaserDisc circa 1982 because of the problems that were associated with LaserDisc at the time. Of course, VHS crushed CED, even though CED had better picture quality. The "flipping" was annoying, but *Star Wars* and *Empire* certainly looked much sweeter on CED than on VHS (of course).

Oh, the memories.]]>Jul 12th 2006 12:43PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/11/selectavision-videodiscs-vs-laserdisc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/11/selectavision-videodiscs-vs-laserdisc/CED failed because it used a vinyl(!) disk inside, which wore out after numerous viewings.]]>Jul 12th 2006 3:31PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/11/selectavision-videodiscs-vs-laserdisc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/11/selectavision-videodiscs-vs-laserdisc/
HD DVD is the Laserdisc in this parallel and Blu-ray is CED.

Laserdisc won and was successful prior to DVD being releases. Laserdisc grew and lasted some 13 years after the death of CED.

It's just a fun parallel. The meek will inherit the earth.]]>Jul 13th 2006 12:03PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/11/selectavision-videodiscs-vs-laserdisc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/07/11/selectavision-videodiscs-vs-laserdisc/Its not valid because technically speaking, CED was inferior to LaserDisc. CED failed. HD-DVD is technically inferior to Blu-Ray, and thus using that example, HD-DVD will fail.
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HD-DVD is made to fit in the whole screen of a HD-TV. Yet a Blu-ray DVD still gives you the Whole thing.

I really don't think HD-DVD will cause too much of a problem since it is so close the format of regular DVD anyways.

The next thing to come is going to be NON-moving parts movies/albums. Just plug in your card into your combined music/movie player.]]>Sep 13th 2006 3:44PM