Comments on: Best Buy Offers Disappointed HD Owners Complimentary 50 Dollar Gift Cards

By: alex

alex — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:04:08 +0000

ya blu-ray definetly had more tech than HD, it had way better audio and video quality just take a sec and look up the numbers, it also had like twice the capacity!
plus my br player is a ps3 like the majority of ppls br players since its the cheapest br player around! so updates are no problem!

By: Thuggy

Thuggy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:17:46 +0000

I never had a HD player but have a PS3 and all I can say is that the quality of films is ten to none plus being able to update at any point there’s no need to worry about 2.0 players.

Hail to Blu-ray…Bill Gate scan go suck!!!!!

By: Fredo

Fredo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:51:23 +0000

BTW, CIB3K is spot on. If you’ve got a a BR player before version 2.0, you are screwed. Some don’t have ethernet ports. HD had that from the get-go, so updates were automatic. I have friends that can’t play new BR discs on their old ass players. It might look good – just as good as HDDVD – but in no way, shape or form is it currently the better technology. People that say that either (a) don’t know shit or (b) are holding a Sony exec’s weasel in their hand…very tightly…and with zest and joy.

By: Fredo

Fredo — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:48:31 +0000

Are you serious, Alex? You can’t be. Pretty much everyone on the planet that knows anything about “tech” was in HD’s court. Blu-ray simply had more studio support. Nothing more. Personally, I think Hollywood hates Microsoft and because Old Bill supports HD-DVD, they decided to bend the boys in Redmond over and pound them in the ass. I think HDDVD looks fucking fantastic. I have a player. I have a shitload of DVDs. I’ll keep my player and when Blu-ray goes down in price, I’ll pick one of those up. Yeah, that’s right. I’m all about wiping my ass with my own money, baby!

By: cib3k

cib3k — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:47:16 +0000

I never buy technology when it’s new, buggy and expensive. I got my first DVD player around 2-3 years ago. I couldn’t care less about the recent format war. And to the suckers who already bought a Blu-ray player: your player will become obsolete once the new BD Profile 2.0 players are released – read this:
http://www.filmjunk.com/2008/03/13/end-of-format-war-causing-blu-ray-prices-to-increase/

By: alex

alex — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:23:59 +0000

good thing i got blu-ray,
i still dont know why it took so long for HD to die, it had no where near as good of support as blu-ray did from studios and blu-ray beat it in pretty much all categories tech wise!

blu-ray looks sooooooooo much better than dvd, its like comparing vhs to dvd, but i think the jump between dvd and blu-ray is probably bigger!

By: GoneAFK

GoneAFK — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:58:20 +0000

Future Shop, in Canada, has a promotion where you can donate your HD player to charity (Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada), and get 100 bucks off the HD/Blu-Ray combo player.

http://www.futureshop.ca/marketing/staticPC/default.asp?PCName=bluray&logon=&langid=EN

The players get delivered to members of the clubs or clubhouses or something.

Better then $50 if you are going to get a combo player anyhow!

By: DJ Machismo

DJ Machismo — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:37:58 +0000

Haha, that’s pretty awesome news. I’ll go in and get my $50 bucks and still be able to use the HD DVDs that I already have, sweet!