HD-DVD Backers Switching to Blu-Ray?

AWWW crap... now what am I gonna do with all these HD dvd's that I bought???
ARRRR!!!

use them as coasters for your table.

mckracken -

Continue to watch them, of course. The question is, what are you going to do when you HAVE to buy a Bluray player?

I'm currently sitting pretty with a PS3 and a humble collection of 12 Blurays.

As a note, I'm not sure how HD-DVD ever really had a prayer. Sony's established Playstation customer base automatically meant that the PS3 would sell quite a bit, thus putting a huge number of Bluray players into the homes of consumers. That's a huge leg up in the HD format war.

Well, if nothing else, we'll finally see an end to all the griping and whining and "my format is better than yours."

Sony was long overdue for a win, what with Microsoft and Nintendo kicking it's butt in the next gen console field.

I'm predicting we'll see talk of a new format before 2010.

And I thought porn would end the war. Porn solves everything.

This is just one guys opinion but I think Sony felt they *had* to win with this. I love what my PS3 is capable of, but they dropped the ball on it from the business side. They needed Blu-Ray to win (I know it isn't over yet, but it appears to be soon) in order to keep the PS3 viable for its functionality if for nothing else. God knows people aren't buying it for its game selection.

Merin, are you serious? 2010? That's way too soon. Unless the next format is a Holodeck, most people who just bought a Bluray player in the past few years is going to upgrade again in 2010.

yeah the same selection is horrible man i love my 360 but im probably gonna have to break down and get the PS3
Jeremy lesser in HD is more than bluray~~

SPortwarrior: That's exactly what Iw as saying at the very beginning. Now had MS taken a financial hit on the Xbox 360 and done it in a joint venture with Toshiba and included that in the machine from the get go, we'd very likely be having a VASTLY different conversation today.

As for the remark of Porn jumping to the HDDVD, that may be true but who wants to spend $100+ for a porn film in HD? I'm as big a fan as anyone else but I really don't need to have the quality of video so good that I can see her kidneys during some of the shots. Nor Do I really want an HD shot of some dude's manhood filling her out like a job application.

On a side to that the highest grossing porn film Pirates, is getting the BluRay treatment. Vivid Entertainment (?) want to release on BD. That was announced before Christmas so that very well could have been the beginning of the end.

Glad I stopped buying regular DVDs and waited for this HD format issue to get settled. I believe its obvious now that Blue Ray will be the winner. Just a month or so more and I can actually buy a new movie for my collection.