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I just looked at the Amazon top 100. Nearly 22% of the movies in the top 100 are HD. (2 HD-DVD, 20 Blu-Ray). I guess there are more HD players out there than I thought.

I completely disagree with that statement. I love Sony products. They are generally more expensive, but worth it. I have never owned a game machine, so I can't speak to that, but everything I have ever purchased with the Sony label has been great. Most people who "diss" Sony, simply just...

With the impending change over to all digital broadcasts soon, more and more homes are going to have HD tvs. This should help persuade joe and jill sixpack to get into HD-DVD/BD. Had this FCC change not be happening right now, I would have agreed that most people would not change to a high...

I am not going to go any further with the path this topic is taking. We don't want to turn this into a format war discussion. I think we both agree that because there is a war, it is making a lot of people wait to buy either one until the war is over. I have a 1080P TV, so I need the winner...

I don't understand why saving $100 on a player would be a deciding factor. That $100 is a very small percentage of the amount you will be spending on movies. Besides, the "cheap chinese players" that are rumored, will certainly be cheap in quality. You get what you pay for. They probably wont...

The comments about Divx has me laughing at myself. To this day, I wont buy anything from Circuit City. I wont even go in their store. All because of their support of Divx and the lies they were spouting to get customers to buy a divx machine. Man, I am really glad that the consumers saw...

There is no way every movie ever made will be available anytime. You wont even be able to chose from all the movies that are currently or have once been on DVD. That amount of data storage space is just not realistic even for huge companies like comcast. 30 movies would need about 1 TeraByte of...

That makes some sense but then why wouldn't they be behind the format with the larger capacity? You get 60% more capacity with the one, and it might cost a little more to produce at this time, but not 60% more. If the larger capacity format was to win, the mfg costs would soon come down as the...

Can someone refresh my memory? Why exactly is Micro$oft even in this battle? They don't make movies, they don't make players. What exactly are they getting from supporting any format?

They have done it before.... Look at their tactics that got them in trouble with forcing companies to sell computers with windows os and browser. They got some pretty hefty fines etc. This is no different in my eyes. Definition of Payola: a bribe given to a disc jockey to induce him to...

This is the quote from the NY Times Article about the pay-off: So yes it does say that the studios are receiving payola/bribes for their support. Here is the article link: NY Times Article

I really hope the whole notion of downloading movies doesn't take off. It reminds me of Divx. Pay to watch a movie every time... No thanks. I like to throw in some movies and just watch certain sections sometimes. How can I do this with this new pay per view they are trying to shove down our...

I am trying to figure out how to join this conversation without it becoming a forbidden format war discussion. I am actually surprised that this topic is even being allowed given all the "No Format War Discussion" warnings. The only thing I will add, which is not about which format is better...