Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
they really have to lower the players prices, and the cost of the movies as well as the costs of HDTV sets or it will end up being a niche market like laserdisc was, while vhs was the mainstream. instead of vhs dvd will be mainstream for instance when put up against the HD stuff.
i think HD is the wave of the future but the companies greed and lack of intelligence may kill both formats.
Plus a lot of people are happy with quality that is not even up to par with dvd, people who download shit quality avi or whatever formats to there ipod or psp.
to get the most out of the picture and sound of HD-DVD or Blu-Ray you have to be xtremeley wealthy and have a setup that displays six times the resolution of dvd and 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1 audio home audio setup.
once they come out with cheap recordable blu ray or HD-DVD drives and afforbable 1080P computer monitors i'll go HD, until then i can live with what i have.
they really have to lower the players prices, and the cost of the movies as well as the costs of HDTV sets or it will end up being a niche market like laserdisc was, while vhs was the mainstream. instead of vhs dvd will be mainstream for instance when put up against the HD stuff.
i think HD is the wave of the future but the companies greed and lack of intelligence may kill both formats.
Plus a lot of people are happy with quality that is not even up to par with dvd, people who download shit quality avi or whatever formats to there ipod or psp.
to get the most out of the picture and sound of HD-DVD or Blu-Ray you have to be xtremeley wealthy and have a setup that displays six times the resolution of dvd and 5.1, 6.1 or 7.1 audio home audio setup.
once they come out with cheap recordable blu ray or HD-DVD drives and afforbable 1080P computer monitors i'll go HD, until then i can live with what i have.
HDTVs are extremely affordable these days. You can get a 40" LCD HDTV for well under $2000 and a lot of them are under $1500. The cost of Blu-Ray players are also under $500. The problem isn't the price of the sets or the players. The problem is the multiple formats.
HDTVs sold extremely well this past Christmas season. If there were a single hi-def format, it would have easily sold just as well. Since there wasn't, people snatched up HDTVs, but didn't get the hi-def players and movies because of the competing formats. People didn't know which one to get, so they got neither and stuck with DVD.
You do not have to be extremely wealthy these days to get a good experience. You can have a perfectly good experience for about $2500. That's about a months pay for your average consumer (unless you're talking about consumers making less than $40k per year, which aren't average when you're talking about buying HD sets and players).
In a nutshell, HDTVs are pretty cheap these days. 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 setups are also pretty cheap (I'm not talking about a $2000 or a $5000 setup, a $500 setup is more than sufficient for most people). HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players are pretty cheap too. The movies aren't cheap themselves, but you'd need two players to play both formats. People don't want that. They don't want two players in their entertainment center. They don't want to have to switch the input on their TV just to watch a different format.
I'll go HD as soon as there's 1) a dual format player that is completely compatible with both formats or 2) there's one format to choose from. I may not even have a 5.1 audio system, but the clarity of hi-def has me hooked (I have a 50" HDTV CRT that does 1080i, it cost me less than $1000 and that was a year ago).