No, really. I’m a slave to the newest, shiniest…most wizbang gadgets I can get my hands on.
Last night I bought an IPhone. Now, it’s a good phone and all, but I already owned a state of the art HTC Smartphone. Two weeks ago, I got a new laptop…not that I needed a new one, but it just looked sleek.
That said, I CAN actually afford this, but where does the madness end? Am I the only one? I swear my wife is going to kill me some day.
Ever try one of these?
Don’t suffer in this madness, schek…enjoy it! 
Whatever you do, scheky…
watch out for the a/v bug…
I got sucked into the HiDef/Blu-Ray war…good Lord is this obsession getting expensive… 
I’d really like to catch the a/v bug one o’ these days, but I don’t even have hardly the time to watch the dvds I’ve already got, and the only music that gets listened to is on my iPod at the office 
I hope you chose the right side. 
Of course I did…
The most affordable, the most supported, the biggest selection, the most performant… basically the winning side …
If anyone wants to send me an iPhone or a laptop or anything like that, feel free to contact me off-board. 
You chose… poorly. With HD-DVD players selling for $99 and the cheapest Blu-Ray player selling for $399, I wonder who will be the winning format war. 
we will see.
The HD-DVD player could be 5$, if the selection of movies isn’t there, consumers won’t give in to it. BluRay has the biggest selection about 5-to-1 currently.
From what I’ve heard, Blu-Ray, with its higher storage capacity and greater support, is outselling HD-DVD by almost two-to-one. HD is so much cheaper because they’re trying to off-load a failed beast before it dies. Betamax anyone?
I’m just waiting for the prices to fall on the Blu-Ray stuff because I can’t afford everything I’d like.
djm
Actually, Betamax was Sony. Also, the Bluray selection isn’t all that much greater than HD DVD and that 2-1 margin is getting narrower as we speak. Studio support is nearly divided down the middle with Sony & Disney supporting Bluray and Universal, Paramount/Dreamworks supporting HD DVD. Warner Brothers, which supports both formats, will likely be the studio that determines the outcome if it goes exclusive on either side. Also, HD DVD was always cheaper than Bluray and HD DVD came out first. The success of Bluray is only because of the PS3 which is ironically cheaper than any standalone BD player.
This indeed, deej…
BluRay will win not because of the audiophile/videophile influence, though it does have some effect.
The higher storage capacity is making it more in demand among computer users, and that demand is being passed on to the manufacturers.
here’s a graph that shows sales from last week all the way through the beginning…
Blu-Ray out sold HD DVD by a margin of 71:29 last week…that includes the week HD DVD had its fire sale of $98 on its older model.
To be clear…that sale is no longer available…Walmart was clearing out its old stock, and Best Buy followed suit.
if you look at the chart, its getting closer to 3:1/
This, students, is what we call a “spanking.”
Any questions?
Actually, the last released numbers showed a 1.85:1 advantage to bluray and keep in mind that the recent HD DVD sales increased HD DVD players in the hands of consumers so far by 25%. Also, the storage thing is a non-issue. HD DVD had recently approved use of a triple-layer HD DVD disk that holds 51 gigs, more than Blu-ray’s 50 gigs. And, Toshiba has claimed that the triple layer disk will be compatible with all current HD DVD players. I expect HD DVD to overtake Bluray by the end of the year.
From highdefdigest.com:
Report: HD DVD Standalone Player Sales Nearing 500,000 Milestone
Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 01:16 PM ET
Tags: Hardware, Industry Forecasts (all tags)Format backers say the total number of standalone HD DVD players sold is poised to hit the 500,000 mark by late November.
That’s according to a report published late Thursday by Home Media Magazine, which places the current total household penetration for HD DVD standalones at about 420,000 units.
This news comes on the heels of reports earlier this week that roughly 90,000 HD DVD standalones were sold last weekend alone, following highly-publicized price drops for Toshiba’s HD-A2 HD DVD player.
While passing the 500,000 unit mark would certainly seem to cement the HD DVD camp’s overall lead in standalone player sales, it still pales in comparison to the installed base of Sony’s PlayStation 3 game console, which comes with a built-in Blu-ray player. (According to the website vgchartz.com, over 2.2 million PS3s have been sold in the US to date).
Of course, as HD DVD backers will be quick to point out, the majority of PS3 owners are said to not use the console as a Blu-ray player.
What effect all of this may (or may not) have on next-gen disc sales remains to seen. As we’ve previously reported, year-to-date figures from Home Media Research gave Blu-ray a 1.85:1 disc sales advantage for the first nine months of 2007.