More HD DVD players than Blu-ray players in America. Still. In 2009.

re: More HD DVD players than Blu-ray players in America. Still. In 2009.

Jeremy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:27:44 GMT

1st!

Crazy, it's all a messed up game. I'd rather have ondemand if it works.

re: More HD DVD players than Blu-ray players in America. Still. In 2009.

Krenn — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:29:48 GMT

One thing to note - it looks like the poll didn't combine PS3 and stand-alone Blu-ray, nor the 360 HD-DVD drive and the stand-alone.

That makes the total 14% HD-DVD; 16% Blu-Ray. Sorry...

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andypennell — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:22:50 GMT

Krenn: I realize that, but only 2% difference is still amazing. Plus the data is clear that people can answer with more than one option, so simply adding PS3/Xbox percentages together isn't necessarily going to be accurate anyway.

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Deniz — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:56:20 GMT

It actually makes me angry to hear this. HD-DVD is still a superior product where Blu-ray is currently flaunting features that HD-DVD had from the start. I have BR now but am STILL buying HD-DVD's from my local stores for $5cdn a piece!

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Peter — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:36:33 GMT

You can resist BD all you want on principle, but you're only denying youself. I have a Samsung BD player that also does Netflix and Pandora streaming, so it is a very useful device. Blu-Ray Discs on my 46" LCD and absoultely beautiful. Upconverted DVDs look great too.

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andypennell — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:25:29 GMT

Peter: I find it ironic that the BD standard, in 2009, still doesn't mandate an internet connection and yet the only interesting current BD players are those with Netflix capability which of course requires such a thing.

I have Netflix on my Xbox already thanks and Pandora on my Sonos: I don't want to have to turn on my TV to listen to music.

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Peter — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:02:02 GMT

Andy, I understand you had a lot personally invested in seeing HD-DVD accepted. But the reality is BD "won" the war and if you want new HD content it's going to be on BD. Someday we'll get HD content delivered on demand and that will be awesome, but until then it's going to come on a physical disc and that disc is BD.

I don't have an Xbox or PS3, so I find my BD player very useful. I can play BD, DVD, CDs, use the Netflix and Pandora streaming all in one device. I'm sure HD-DVD players could have done all the same things, but that's kind of a moot point now.

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Tone — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:30:04 GMT

It's crazy to me that the biggest reason that Blu-Ray had a luke warm reception in the first place, was down to the fact that Sony kept bringing out new profiles, and each time it was more than likely that your very expensive Blu-Ray player would need to be replaced with another player.

It's nice to see that Sony has given us a couple of years to invest in new profile 2 hardware, just for them to bring out a need to buy a new player all over again!!!

This is at the heart of what is spoilling Ble-Ray's adoption in to the market, with high prices being the second reason.

On the other hand, if Microsoft release a new Xbox, it would be stupid to not move to a Blu-Ray based storage system - lets face it, DVD is out of steam already, and not all the world has ultra fast broadband connections, and not to mention the fact that MS's movies are not available in many countries.

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Andy Pennell — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:32:47 GMT

Turns out the BDA are unhappy with the results of this survey (surprise): http://www.twice.com/blog/Reporters_Notebook/17400-BDA_Blasts_Harris_Poll.php?nid=2402&rid=6277977&source=title

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Adam Krantz — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:09:34 GMT

Once I finally got a nice big plasma HDTV last December, I bought a Sony Blu-ray player to use with Blu-ray discs from Netflix. It was only $180. However, I refuse to buy ANY Blu-ray discs. The reality is now I probably watch more stuff streamed to the Roku player now.

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andypennell — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:34:20 GMT

Hi Adam! Yeah, I don't even get to use my 100" screen any more, else I know would miss watching stuff in HD. On my little-ole-32" streaming is good enough. I did recently pick up the last ever HD DVD (Death Proof) just for old times sake.