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indies are much more likely to be out on HD DVD for several reasons. much less overhead in terms of actual production, and much less restrictions on content (as per Don May Jr of Synapse). Even if there are outside houses to do the authoring/encoding of the Bds, the costs of replication are...

I bought my first vcr which was a Beta player in 1985 (my HDA1 was actually less than my first vcr...not even taking into account inflation). At that point the writing was already on the wall, but I bought it anyway because i also bought into the "it's the superior format" hype. It never...

I agree. 12 months from now, if one of the formats software (not hardware) is consistently outselling the other by a 2 or 3 to 1 margin, then to me, that seems like the writing is on the wall. This is why the PS3 has been seen as the silver bullet, that will help Bd attain a critical mass of...

- Robert Harris commented in aother thread that the studios are finding that many of the previously made HD master from several years ago and farther back, just don't hold up now. I know Sony has been banking these for as long as anyone, going back to some of their earlier DVD releases. Of...

I'm trying to substantiate the claims from that post, but here's what I've run across in the mean time. from http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/13199 the former item i find interesting because the CEO quoted is from Image. This, along what Don May Jr has been relaying in various forums, is that...

I was surpised that Sony seems to be having problems even with the yields on the single layer discs. In a discussion over on AVS, a 40% figure was being tossed around (out of every hundred discs manufactured, 60 are coasters). To me, this sounded like HD DVD supporter wishful thinking, but when...

I do agree with this. From my own standpoint though, I've already gone thru this phenomena with DVD, and I'm a bit more committed this time, as well as circumspective, to avoiding collecting a lot of discs just to justify the equipment. Again, at $500, there is much less of a pull to feel as...

1) studio support. The biggest concept to keep in mind here, imo, is that studio support does not translate into video on demand. in other words, Just because studio A is supporting format #1, that does not mean that you will automatically see your favorite studio A title released immediately...