A nail in the coffin for HD-DVD???

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Originally Posted by KeithTN

I believe the blu ray has been cracked...

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That's what Chris thought, but he wasn't 100% sure on that...

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Originally Posted by JeffFlanagan

Unless you're part of the scam, you're being used by people who don't give a damn about you.

The industry's interests are to squeeze us for every penny they can.
If they had their way, copyright would last forever, and we'd pay every time we watch a movie.

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I don't know what you are up to my friend but what ever it is you are drinking I'd like you to reduce it by half, walk at least 2 miles everyday, and get 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep every night. :)

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Originally Posted by Earl

I don't know what you are up to my friend but what ever it is you are drinking I'd like you to reduce it by half, walk at least 2 miles everyday, and get 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep every night. :)

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About three beers at that point, and yeah that was a little strong.

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

God Jeff, you sound exactly like my boyfriend. I can only handle so much anti-corporation, anti-government, anti-walmart, anti-industry speeches in one day. (not to say you touched on the last 3)

Point is, who cares? If we don't pay them to watch their movies, where will they get the billions of dollars to make more?

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Your boyfriend probably makes some good points, but I'm not one of those extremists. I have no problem with someone making a profit. The problem comes in when they start taking rights and capabilities away from all of us and treating every customer as a criminal. The technologies that I buy should work for me, not for some 3rd party.
Things have been trending in a bad direction with extended copyright and DRM taking away our rights to our own culture and many people aren't even aware of it.

Quite honestly I haven't put enough effort in either to care much. I manage a video store, maybe once a week we get a single customer who asks us if we have Blu ray or HD-DVDs. Now my store personally doesn't but then again we don't have a high demand for them.
I haven't switched and most likely won't, I have over 500 DVDs, many out of production and I have no desire to switch formats.

I sooooo told you so. Blu ray all the way baby!!!!
http://truemors.com/?p=25552

Actually at this years CES everyone expected microsoft to announce that they were coming out with a Xbox360 with a built in HD-DVD player. What they didn't expect is Warner Brothers and Paramount (has a contract to follow Warner Brothers) To come off the fence and go to Bluray. I sell electronics and although they are over double the price our Bluray players are on back order and we have HD-DVD players on the shelf and they come with two free movies. Also Bluray movies are typically cheaper or at the same price as HD-DVD movies with more storage space. Also as for Beta Vs VHS I've always been told that the reason VHS won was because of record time. I think Sony Learned its lesson.

I have been waiting to see who wins. I updated my home theater system last year and my buddy who did my system told me to hold off until someone wins the battle, still waiting.

I did get a HP laptop that plays Blue Ray dics but haven't been able to make it work, does anyone know if I need a specific program to play them?

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Originally Posted by West Coast Jungle

I have been waiting to see who wins. I updated my home theater system last year and my buddy who did my system told me to hold off until someone wins the battle, still waiting.

I did get a HP laptop that plays Blue Ray dics but haven't been able to make it work, does anyone know if I need a specific program to play them?

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You dont have to wait anymore... Toshiba has pulled the plug ;)

As to the laptop, mine came with the necessary drivers and programs... I dont remember what it's called, but you should be able to download them.

Of also I'm at work and saw on G4tv that Walmart has dropped HD-DVD players and movies as well. Oh and there was an announcement a while back that Microsoft would put a Bluray player out for the Xbox 360 if Bluray won soooo.