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| Registered: January 5, 2008 |  Posts: 44 |
| | Posted: | | | | Here is an interesting survey measuring the HD DVD buying habits of owners of HD DVD players. So if you own one and want your opinion to count, go here:
http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=bfad0f4a-1e04-41d6-a95f-2f01e04e1c8c |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
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| Registered: June 27, 2007 |  Posts: 2,049 |
| | Posted: | | | | I answered the survey truthfully. Meaning that I still buy HD-DVD's. Even if they are full priced. Since the quality is the same as Blu Ray, I see no reason not to purchase a movie on HD-DVD. | | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,188 |
| | Posted: | | | | Who is behind this survey?
And yeah, I still sometimes buy HD DVDs at full price (well, not the full SRP of course but with the usual discounts, between 30-50% off) but now I have almost every single HD DVD I'm interested in so there's not much left for me to buy at this point... | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 | | | | Last edited: by Nexus the Sixth |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | I assume that this must be related to the independent films on HD DVD project that was supposedly going to happen through Amazon but never materialized. They may be testing the waters to see if it's worth releasing any of the stuff they had set up for this. Hence the question about films that were not from major studios.
With the pickup of the French MA VIE EN ROSE (MOME), I am pretty well happy with the HD DVDs I have, though I wouldn't be averse to tracking down the German LARA CROFT: THE CRADLE OF LIFE HD DVD at something approaching a reasonable price. Otherwise I think I have everything I'd care to have in the format. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." | | | | Last edited: by gardibolt |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,488 |
| | Posted: | | | | I went crazy with the checkmarks on question 13.....  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Stephan.klose: Quote:
I answered the survey truthfully. Meaning that I still buy HD-DVD's. Even if they are full priced. Since the quality is the same as Blu Ray, I see no reason not to purchase a movie on HD-DVD. I'm curious as to why people would want to buy HD DVDs at full price even if the blu ray is available. Aren't you worried that if your HD DVD player became faulty you wouldn't be able to replace it and couldn't watch the movies? Personally I held off buying any HD films until I knew which would be the winning format so now I only have Blu Ray. (I even considered buying both the HD DVD and BLu Ray versions of Bladerunner so I would have whichever was the winning format) | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: June 27, 2007 | | Posts: 2,049 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Patsa: Quote:
Who is behind this survey?
And yeah, I still sometimes buy HD DVDs at full price (well, not the full SRP of course but with the usual discounts, between 30-50% off) but now I have almost every single HD DVD I'm interested in so there's not much left for me to buy at this point... I totally know what you mean.. I got well over a 100 HD-DVD's now and it's hard to find anything of interest.. Just got the Ocean Trilogy.. One I missed so far.. and the Harry Potter movies.. All 5 of them for under $50.. Even though I am not that interested in them I thought it'd be nice to own'em.. | | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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| Registered: June 27, 2007 | | Posts: 2,049 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting gardibolt: Quote:
I assume that this must be related to the independent films on HD DVD project that was supposedly going to happen through Amazon but never materialized. They may be testing the waters to see if it's worth releasing any of the stuff they had set up for this. Hence the question about films that were not from major studios.
With the pickup of the French MA VIE EN ROSE (MOME), I am pretty well happy with the HD DVDs I have, though I wouldn't be averse to tracking down the German LARA CROFT: THE CRADLE OF LIFE HD DVD at something approaching a reasonable price. Otherwise I think I have everything I'd care to have in the format. It's sad that the interest in HD-DVD comes only from independent studios.. I would love for some big studios to release their top titles in HD-DVD. I would buy them even if cost the same as their Blu Ray pendant. | | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 775 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm much the same. I got most of the movies I was interested in on HD DVD before Warner went Blu, but now that HD DVDs are dirt cheap I'm buying stuff that I'm not terribly interested in, but would still probably enjoy, and a bargain is a bargain! |
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| Registered: June 27, 2007 | | Posts: 2,049 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
Quoting Stephan.klose:
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I answered the survey truthfully. Meaning that I still buy HD-DVD's. Even if they are full priced. Since the quality is the same as Blu Ray, I see no reason not to purchase a movie on HD-DVD.
I'm curious as to why people would want to buy HD DVDs at full price even if the blu ray is available. Aren't you worried that if your HD DVD player became faulty you wouldn't be able to replace it and couldn't watch the movies?
Personally I held off buying any HD films until I knew which would be the winning format so now I only have Blu Ray. (I even considered buying both the HD DVD and BLu Ray versions of Bladerunner so I would have whichever was the winning format) It's like with the Ocean Trilogy. It cost the same on Blu Ray as it did on HD-DVD. I opted for HD-DVD to show my support.. Also there are still many titles out there you simply don't get on Blu Ray. Also I am not that worried about my player giving up because I remember having my Laserdisc Player repaired 10 years after the format died.. So I guess there will be spare parts for some time.. By law they are required to provide service for a "Reasonable amount of time".. That's of course vague.. But since I don't use my player that much I am not too worried about it breaking soon. | | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,188 |
| | Posted: | | | | It seems that you can't get service from Toshiba anymore, at least not in Sweden. Instead they will simply credit you the money you paid for the player (if you bought it within the last year). But I have already secured a backup player in case mine breaks down, and I'm sure there will be second hand players on the market years from now. You could probably still buy a laserdisc player if you wanted. My very first DVD player, bought in March 2000, is still in working condition despite seeing heavy use, so I'm not that worried though. And in time there will be new editions of the movies that I'll want to get anyway so what happens in the distant future is of little significance. If nothing else, I will have a part of history.  | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 16, 2007 | | Posts: 405 |
| | Posted: | | | | Just recently Fry's Electronics here in the US had the XBOX 360 HD-DVD add-on priced at $29.99!!! I grabbed one as a back-up player and if I find a decent priced Tosh AD-A35 I will probably pick that up as well!!! | | | | My Collection!!! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,188 |
| | Posted: | | | | You could get the X-box add-on for as little as 149kr SEK here for a while (about $25 USD), but I think it has sold out everywhere now.  | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: June 27, 2007 | | Posts: 2,049 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Patsa: Quote:
It seems that you can't get service from Toshiba anymore, at least not in Sweden. Instead they will simply credit you the money you paid for the player (if you bought it within the last year). But I have already secured a backup player in case mine breaks down, and I'm sure there will be second hand players on the market years from now. You could probably still buy a laserdisc player if you wanted. My very first DVD player, bought in March 2000, is still in working condition despite seeing heavy use, so I'm not that worried though. And in time there will be new editions of the movies that I'll want to get anyway so what happens in the distant future is of little significance. If nothing else, I will have a part of history. That's kinda strange that you don't get service from Toshiba anymore. It's only been since march since they stopped making players. They have to provide service by law.. Also what do you do when you have over 100 movies and your player breaks.. That's just not fun.. | | | | Check out my Youtube channel under https://www.youtube.com/user/alittleolder |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Stephan.klose: Quote:
Quoting Patsa:
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It seems that you can't get service from Toshiba anymore, at least not in Sweden. Instead they will simply credit you the money you paid for the player (if you bought it within the last year). But I have already secured a backup player in case mine breaks down, and I'm sure there will be second hand players on the market years from now. You could probably still buy a laserdisc player if you wanted. My very first DVD player, bought in March 2000, is still in working condition despite seeing heavy use, so I'm not that worried though. And in time there will be new editions of the movies that I'll want to get anyway so what happens in the distant future is of little significance. If nothing else, I will have a part of history.
That's kinda strange that you don't get service from Toshiba anymore. It's only been since march since they stopped making players. They have to provide service by law.. Also what do you do when you have over 100 movies and your player breaks.. That's just not fun.. that was the point I was making. I just couldn't understand why people would be happy to have lots of films on HD-DVD when it was a dead format and there wouldn't be any new machine being made. | | | | Paul |
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