Time To Buy HD DVD!
Right now is the best time to be looking at HD DVD players and discs. Since the announcement from Toshiba to cancel allfuture plans for HD DVD, prices of players have just been just skyrocketing down.
Why buy a player that supports a dead format?
It’s simple, the players do a great job of converting your regular DVDs and can also play over 350 HD DVDs which you can buy very cheaply, due to the numerous discounts sprouting up. Warner Bros has also stated they will still be releasing HD DVDs till May of 2008. Amazon has one model going for $82 with two free HD DVDs in the box. If that is still more then you are willing to spend keep looking, prices will just keep going down.
What are a few benefits of HD DVD over online video?
There are a lot of internet movie services that have been showing up in the last two years. While some of those are in pretty decent quality, HD DVD is just a whole lot better. There is currently a pretty large selection of Hi-Res videos that you can buy for a family night, or your daily television routine (I wouldn’t want to watch a legendary movie such as Pulp Fiction on my small, distorted computer screen, but that’s just me).
If it’s still to expensive for you, you just wait it out a month or two. You’ll find some more incredible offers for HD DVD players on Amazon, eBay, and other peer-to-peer selling sites presenting themselves real soon.
Has Sony Truly Won?
Yes, it is sadly true. In case you haven’t already heard it in the news, Sony’s Blu-ray has officially beaten Toshiba’s HD DVD. It was announced to the world on February 19, 2008. I am sincerely sorry to those of you who bought HD DVD players and discs. As I stated in an earlier post (Blu-ray vs. HD DVD), the best way to go would have been to just wait it out till there was an official winner. I thought that within a month or so there would be a true winner. It seems that it has happened much more quickly, and that I was a bit inaccurate.
Has a short-term winner truly won long-term?
In my opinion, Sony is not thinking about the future. They are being extremely naive because although the format war for Hi-Def Discs is over, video competition is not. There are a variety of things that not only now, but in the future will make discs in general useless. To better explain my theory, observe the fact the the new MacBook Air no longer has a disc drive. Now although this is just one examply, it is a beginning to what will be the standard in the future.