HD DVD to start promoting HDi with logo
By Ben Drawbaugh 
posted Sep 20th 2007 3:05PM
posted Sep 20th 2007 3:05PM
posted Sep 20th 2007 3:05PM
The percentage of sales people that recommend Samsung HDTVs.
Salespeople are also becoming less likely to recommend LCD sets over plasma sets, which goes against the industry trend.
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why would someone throw down money for a dying format anyways?
And because Disney helped create HDi and really loves it?
Oh my gosh - you should email Paramount and let them know they made a mistake! And Universal too!
maybe it's just this logo, but I can see they are going for that old digital fade sort of like IBM or some other 1970s-1980s logo, but I think they did it wrong, line weight looks inconsistent.
I agree, and I think they should make the logo bigger!
http://www.underconsideration.com/MaketheLogoBigger.mp3
@ Jack
Maybe because it really isn't a dying format?
"Regardless of what you call it, it has proven to be the best interactive layer in the format war."
Who are you and what have you done with Ben?
"Who are you and what have you done with Ben?"
*laugh* Someone obviously stole his account. We should send an email to Weblogs and inform them. ;)
Funniest song in a while.
:)
I enjoy HDi and It looks as if HD-DVD exclusive/neutral studios do as well. :)
-dad
Poor Jack. Hug that PS3 a little closer; it's lonely. For a real gauge of which format has done the best job of capturing the enthusiasm of the people buying this stuff, hunt around for theater-oriented forums which have sections for both of the competing formats. Especially the forums which indicate how many people are actually busy in what sections. AVS would be a good place to start.
Honestly the simple truth is most people don't care about U Control or even most of the extras that come on DVDs, HD-DVDs or Blu-ray discs....they just want to watch the movie. When you look at it from that point of view its not hard to see why Blu-ray seems to be doing better in the number of discs sold since more studios are supporting it.
Well, I don't normally ever explore the extras on DVD--but I do with HD-DVD. I don't know if it's because of the interactive way things are put together, or because it's hi-def, or because I paid $20 for the disc...but I do enjoy the extras quite a bit--and my wife really loves the extras as well. The primary reason that Blu-Ray is selling more media, is because of the number of people with PS3s. Over recent weeks, though, Blu-Rays lead has been waning. Lately, it's been closer to 1.5:1.
Personally, I prefer HD-DVD. Still, it's beginning to look as though both formats may survive--and that's fine with me.
Wow, I like how Blu-ray tools start justifing how U Control and interactive features don't matter in order to justify their $600 brick of a player that will become obsolete by end of this year.
First of all, it's absolutely self-centered and hypocritical, not to mention completely false, what you just said about all these interactive and additional features. They are not IMPORTANT to YOU but are sure more important to majority of people as they WOULD NOT BE INCLUDED on discs in the first place.
We are suppose to go next generation, get connected with online encyclopedia, expand out knowledge about the specific topic or movie you just saw and expand our library and all this without the need for stuffing everything on one disc. You approach is actually very typical of a Blu-Ray person in denial, which is pretty much everyone out there. Sure there are people like I am who actually both and let me give you a piece of information, 90% of people I know who are format neutral prefer HD DVD both audio/video/interactivity wise. So go figure.
Why Blu-Ray is winning is because they are literally paying every single person, retailer and media outlet to FORCE consumers to buy Blu-ray. If it was just on the merits of the format there wouldn't be this war to begin with.
Playstation 3 as shown everywhere IS the ONLY reason why Blu-Ray exists. The charts that show Blu-Ray player presence on the market is like 99% PS3s and 1% standalones. Absolutely ridiculous and as an individual bought the Playstation 3 in hopes to play cool games like be did on Playstation 2 they were forced to pick sides. So yeah, that advantage is not so clear anymore, especially when we know that from sales advantage that was screamed about from Sony (4:1 in sales) from the beginning of the year (read Casino Royale)to 3:1 and 2:1 over the course of time. Let me enlighten you that last MONTH even when HD DVD had one week of no releases, Blu-Ray has not managed to go over 1.5:1 in sales over HD DVD.
What you think will happen when holiday season comes. If there is no crippled PS3 for $399 (which is still just a rumor), you can say BAH BAH to Blu-Ray by year's end.
I do think both formats will survive. So pick the one you like and be happy with it.
I love all the interactive features
Bit of anger? Why do you care? It is just a format.
@Nfinity
Dude get a life....not one person in this thread has tried to justify anything to do with Blu-ray. Go out and breath some fresh air man....you really need it.
As far as how many studios are supporting what, dvdempire has it 31 for HD, 29 for BD.
http://www.dvdempire.com/Content/Features/hidef_wars.asp?view=1
Oh, and note the disk sales break is now a lot more even now that the BD Paramounts are sold out.
This new logo may seem redundant, as HDi compatibility is mandatory to get to put the HD-DVD logo on a player.
But in fact, it's not, just because, as a lot of people don't know, it is NOT mandatory for a player to be BD-J compliant (I wonder why...) to have the right to but the Blu-Ray logo on a player.
I just see more consumer confusion with this stuff.