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HD DVD player sales bounce back
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article published on 29 January, 2008
After the dissapointment of being outsold by Blu-ray players more than 10:1 a week earlier, HD DVD standalone player sales rebounded for the week ending January 19, 2008 to comprise around 1/3 of all Next-Gen DVD players sold.
Ross Rubin, analyst for the NPD Group attributes both Blu-ray's recent advantage and HD DVD's apparent resurgence to price rather than any consumer mandate. ?Both ... [ read the full article ]
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1. February 2008 @ 16:08 |
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Originally posted by BludRayne:
I am surprised how many people here support blu-ray. I'd say a large number of us are into backing up our discs. BD is more anti-consumer than HD-DVD. I guess you guys also don't value your privacy. Your player needs to be internet connected. Every action you do can be recorded and sent back to the mothership. I refuse to play this game.
I don't get the Internet-connected reference, but I totally agree with you on DRM. It doesn't matter if BR can store more, when the space is taken up by DRM garbage that prevents you making a backup of the DISC YOU PAID FOR. (This has always been my main objection to BR.) Space will especially be an issue for me if they add this stupid IntelliTrack technology they're plotting and waste space with that.
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A_Klingon
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1. February 2008 @ 18:22 |
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I will never own or buy a system that requires my set-top player to be connected to the Internet in order to play back retail discs that I have purchased.
If I have to do that, I'll find an alternative HD source/format, or do completely without if need be.
They tried that s**t with the old, original, ancient DIVX scam from Circuit City, and we all know where the original DIVX ended up.
If SONY requires this, they are going to be fending-off a massive public backlash.
Yeah - it's unfortunate, but Blu-Ray is chock-full of DRM. Don't know how we're ever going to totally work our way around it. :-(
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1. February 2008 @ 18:27 |
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A_Klingon
This is the vibe I am getting, they have put lot of protections in it to show the media mafia it can be done but they are unwilling to do it or keep up with it (they sold off BD+ protection after all).
Bascily its a front.
I think the industry has learned that its pointless to work "to hard" on protections since they are broken so quickly, but then again sony is bi polar who knows what they will do next.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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glasssd
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1. February 2008 @ 23:20 |
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bouncing like a flat basket ball.
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HDNow
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1. February 2008 @ 23:47 |
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So what happen to all thos people who buy the cheap HDDVD players?
Not buying the HDDVD movies?
Why 82 for Blu and only 18 for HDDVD?
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superomio
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2. February 2008 @ 11:19 |
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The only reason HD DVD player sales have "bounced back" is because i saw a HD DVD player advertised for £200 with 7 free movies.
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tleewade
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10. February 2008 @ 15:52 |
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super you said it a good value people will buy it .low prices and good product will sell. ill buy one .
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superomio
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10. February 2008 @ 19:27 |
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Yeah, but why invest in something thats going redundant?
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11. February 2008 @ 12:20 |
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Maybe because, as he already stated, he feels its a value and he can do whatever he wants with his money. What more reason does an individual need?
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Sazaziel
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11. February 2008 @ 19:38 |
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Originally posted by Nephilim:
Maybe because, as he already stated, he feels its a value and he can do whatever he wants with his money. What more reason does an individual need?
Nephilim.....as a consumer I believe you have stated the most greatest comment ever!!!! Kudos!!!
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AfterDawn Addict
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20. February 2008 @ 06:50 |
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This is just a lil spike in their slow demize.
On a side not Vurbal is this the shoretest length article u have written you must have broken a record or something :) just kidding mate keep up the good work :)
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