http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/ Engadget HD Comments for HBO hops on bandwagon, also going Blu-ray exclusive http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 10:04AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 10:04AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 10:11AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/
Widescreen or not its way better than Sopranos ever was.]]>Jan 10th 2008 10:24AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 10:36AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/
just get the DVD........up-conversion looks good enough for that........]]>Jan 10th 2008 3:45PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 4:03PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 4:04PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 4:04PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 11:11AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/
For the record, I'm now 1-2 with format wars: picked Betamax, DVD (vs. DIVX) and now HD DVD. How's your format war record?]]>Jan 10th 2008 10:43AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 10:53AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 10:59AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/
This is the only format war I've been able to actually buy something for seeing as how I was only 6 When Betamax died........lol]]>Jan 10th 2008 3:51PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 11:01AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 11:15AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/
At least I won't have to read anymore immature rants with "HD DUD" in them by posters whom you'd think have stock in Sony and the BDA. I guess the new thing will be "My Blu-ray player is better than yours!" ]]>Jan 10th 2008 11:29AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/
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...anyway the rest of my comment from above got cut off somehow. Let me finish my sentence

If you haven't been reading the CES news, there is a whole plethora of new blu-ray players coming and some are going to be sub $300 and if you are a home theater nut, then $300 shouldn't be a problem, otherwise you need a new hobby...]]>Jan 10th 2008 11:59AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/
Truth is Joe Consumer is perfectly fine with DVDs, or for that matter, upscaling DVD players. That's what we're all finding.

Plus, Blu-ray is being successfully perceived to be a videophile format. Like Laserdisc, it's been successfully recieved by just the minority of users who are interested in high-definition discs.

HD-DVD however is not. It is being perceived as a successor to DVD, a format that many people exceedingly comfortable with right now (see RoughlyDrafted article on Why Lo-Fi Is The New Hi-Fi). It's strength is that it speaks best (compatibility and price) to an audience which is still showing indifference to the format war (since current DVD players offer the *best* compatibility and best price).

Basically, HD-DVD *competes* with DVD in buyers' minds more than Blu-ray does. In the studio's mind there's no point in continuing the war by getting behind two camps if one of them seems to confuse the established and well-performing standard DVD market, and this way they can streamline disc manufacturing and subsequently have a clearer marketing message.]]>Jan 10th 2008 1:40PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 1:47PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 11:30AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 11:35AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Cheers]]>Jan 10th 2008 11:54AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/More info:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120570/]]>Jan 10th 2008 12:07PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/
Microsoft tried their damndest to get their claws into this whole thing, all for naught.]]>Jan 10th 2008 12:06PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 5:56PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 12:19PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 2:03PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 12:25PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 12:28PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/Jan 10th 2008 12:29PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/01/10/hbo-hops-on-bandwagon-also-going-blu-ray-exclusive/
Is this codec better because you say so? Many posters on forums such as AVS disagree with this, and hoping Warner (not "Warners") drops it simply because they're Blu-ray exclusive sounds amazingly fanboyish and unnecessary at this point.

I suppose you're hoping Universal and Paramount/Dreamworks follow suit, as most of their titles use VC-1. All I know is that the VC-1 HD DVDs I own from all three companies look stunning and will continue to whether or not I decide to "go Blu." An argument over coding is probably just as silly as the storage space issue, so I'd rather not get into one.
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