Xbox 360 Fanboy

Indeed, it is over. Forget about a blu-ray add on and get a ps3. I owned an xbox 360 until last week when I traded it in and got a ps3. Xbox 360 has LIVE and thats all about it has over the ps3. Everything is going into the direction of blu-ray. Almost every movie studio has gone blu except a few. I was really once a believer of HD DVD, but not anymore. Its only a matter of time till many of you realize that format is over, with blu-ray holding the belt.

No, DVD is holding the belt. HD-DVD and BluRay both pale in comparison to that behemoth. Everyone is getting all hot and bothered about a format "war" that collectively holds 7% market share. That's like discussing who's selling the most CPUs after skipping over Intel and AMD. The battle of BluRay vs DVD will probably result in BluRay losing.

That said, I do like renting both from Netflix and using them on my HDTV. But having an HDTV and a player for either HiDef format (let alone both) puts me well in the minority of TV owners and media disc users.

@Dude305 - So you're saying that because HD DVD is a failed format, you traded in your 360? Why the hell would I trade in my 360, which has tons of gaming hours into it (and many many more in the future), for a PS3 that barely has any games? I bought the 360 to play games, not watch movies. Have fun with your Blu-ray movie watching machine because that's all it's good for.

Yeah,because i'm sure you had no idea what you were getting into before you bought it,right?

Because the player magically stops working next month? Buying the player isn't the mistake. Some people bought $700+ in movies. That's the mistake. I've gotten plenty of use out of my HD-DVD add on with renting them off of Netflix. I'm sure the price of my player comes down to a few dollars extra per movie. What I feel is a "mistake" is buying 300 on HD-DVD because when my add-on player breaks I'm left with a $30 standard def DVD. But it wouldn't be the first movie I've bought twice.

Hopefully you guys will finally catch up with Jostiq on your weekend-news.Right now it's 3:1 ratio :(
Anyway enough bitching.

Good Luck Guys.

I don't think the consumers had/have much to do with it.

You mean how VHS won over Beta Max....

How is HD-DVD better for consumers?

I'm trying to figure out why people choose the sides they do. I figure if BD has a higher capacity (50 vs 30 gigs for dual-layer, which seems to be where the companies are settling) for about the same cost (so says Wikipedia), go that way. Of course, I decided not to invest in either player until the war was over, so I don't have as much of a stake in it as some people...

If you are buying Blu-ray movies for $30 - $40 you are buying at the wrong places.