I'm going to sum up the comments section for the next guy:
"HATE HATE HATE, WHINE, I'm RICHER THAN YOU, HATE HATE."
Ok, let me just put it this way for you all:
Right now you can get a 1080p player and a library of 150 movies on Amazon for really cheap. In fact, if you were going to actually purchase all the movies we have been kicking around here, the amount you save on buying an HD DVD player and the movies on HD DVD that are also going to be on Blu-Ray will probably make up the cost difference of a BD player. At the cost of $120 for the player, and $15 for the movies (compared to $30 for the BD movies), buying the player and all 150 titles will cost $2370, compare to $4500 for BD discs alone.
Of course, you probably do not want 150 movies if you even own that many. So lets say you'd want twenty. Thats $300 in movies on HD DVD and another $120 for the player. Or $420. A BD player will cost you at least $400 ($399.99) right now, and 20 movies $600.
So lets say you buy the HD DVD player and get all the movies that are on it plus what will be on Blu-Ray, which offers (as far as the end consumer is concerned) the same video and audio quality (storage capacity is not even met on these discs yet). As I have stated, 150 movies plus player is $2370. Equivalent number of movies on BD (without player) is $4500. Hence, someone could actually buy an HD DVD player, watch plenty of movies for a long time, still have incredible visual and audio quality, and have money left over to buy a BD player when the prices come down.
The HD DVD will never sit on your shelf with Beta Max (until we all get HD VOD and discs go away completely). In fact someone would be quite happy purchasing it right now. And get plenty of usage.
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I'm going to sum up the comments section for the next guy:
"HATE HATE HATE, WHINE, I'm RICHER THAN YOU, HATE HATE."
Ok, let me just put it this way for you all:
Right now you can get a 1080p player and a library of 150 movies on Amazon for really cheap. In fact, if you were going to actually purchase all the movies we have been kicking around here, the amount you save on buying an HD DVD player and the movies on HD DVD that are also going to be on Blu-Ray will probably make up the cost difference of a BD player. At the cost of $120 for the player, and $15 for the movies (compared to $30 for the BD movies), buying the player and all 150 titles will cost $2370, compare to $4500 for BD discs alone.
Of course, you probably do not want 150 movies if you even own that many. So lets say you'd want twenty. Thats $300 in movies on HD DVD and another $120 for the player. Or $420. A BD player will cost you at least $400 ($399.99) right now, and 20 movies $600.
So lets say you buy the HD DVD player and get all the movies that are on it plus what will be on Blu-Ray, which offers (as far as the end consumer is concerned) the same video and audio quality (storage capacity is not even met on these discs yet). As I have stated, 150 movies plus player is $2370. Equivalent number of movies on BD (without player) is $4500. Hence, someone could actually buy an HD DVD player, watch plenty of movies for a long time, still have incredible visual and audio quality, and have money left over to buy a BD player when the prices come down.
The HD DVD will never sit on your shelf with Beta Max (until we all get HD VOD and discs go away completely). In fact someone would be quite happy purchasing it right now. And get plenty of usage.