What gauge were those wire coat hangers? :P

I might have to pick some of those up.

I was told more or less the same thing, though not in that level of detail, when I contacted Netflix.

I do wonder though why they can't buy the discs on their own. From what I understand, Netflix has to buy Weinstein DVDs rather than get them through the studio because of the agreement Weinstein has with Blockbuster, but I don't recall there being this bad of a problem with those titles.

I suspect we're only hearing part of the story too. Netflix is not going to come out and tell their customers they are partially at fault.

Chinese manufacturers decide to bypass Blu-ray and HD DVD, altogether offering their own HD format on players that price their Japanese CE competitors out of the market. They sign-on all the major film studios making their format the first to do so.

Fanboys from both camps gloat when their opponent loses.

What about the Panasonic's 1.1 profile player?

@Mike

In this case, region coding is a good thing, because it allows the high def version to be released day&date with DVD, whereas HD DVD will have to wait until later because the studio does not want the disc version available in markets in which it is still playing in theaters.

You don't have to look far to find fanatics on both sides. A good number post here, particularly ones who were banned/suspended from AVS.

Hmm. Universal titles when visiting the BDA site? Foreshadowing? :P

So when a silver medalist looks up at the gold medalist does he also say, "yeah but you only won by .20 seconds, keep patting yourself on the back"

Sunrise Earth? Really?


...I guess if I had a random flat panel hanging in a hallway that happened to also be connected to a Blu-ray/HD-DVD player, then I might just buy that title.

I don't know about their thoughts on HD DVD or Blu-ray, but if these people are just now looking to buy their first HDTV, based upon the survey questions and results, they are not being honest with themselves or the survey:

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I like being aware of new technology, but I
typically wait until the price starts coming
down and I know the product works well. 67.3%
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By the time I purchase a new technology,
many people are already owners and the price
has dropped enough for me to be interested. 21.3%
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Those two percentages should really be reversed based upon the descriptions.

HDTV has worked well for years and the price is not starting to come down, it has been dropping for years. Many people are currently already owners (15-20% of US households with a estimated 90-110 million total US households) and price has significantly dropped.

I'd even argue that the surveyed popultion if non-owners of HDTVs fall into the last category or somewhere in-between (for HDTV) because HDTV is by no means new. I mean we're at the point in which some retailers no longer even sell the technology it replaced, in this case analog tv's.
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I never buy "new" technologies, because by
the time I buy (or someone else buys it for
me), everyone else already has one and it is
no longer considered "new." 1.4%
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Of course in our society of keeping up with the Jones or at least appearing to keep up with the Jones, few would want to admit that.

Now before someone spins this the wrong way (as is becoming commonplace here), it does not mean a thing about the character or quality of citizen these people are. All it means is they were slower to adopt HDTV (and possibly other technology) than others. It does not make them a lesser/inferior person, nor does it make the the early adopters superior.

It does not even say anything about their income level, because priorities play as much a role in purchasing as income does. I have relatives many times more wealthy than I am who do not own a HDTV. My manager's manager just bought his HDTV this year. It simply is or was not a priority for them.

@wysiwyg

I suspect, in the context of this article, the term fanboy was used because only the HD DVD fanboys would be "tittering" whereas regular HD DVD supporters could probably care less.

Plus everytime this site tweaks some overly sensitive fanboy's nose they get more posts and probably more hits as well.