Stick it In my opinion, this

Stick it

In my opinion, this defeat is a result of Sony buying its victory from the other studios fair enough I suppose in the stick it world and HDs pathetic marketing. We opted to go with the blue-ray technology especially since it seemed to be the favored of the two by Disney. Like I told my husband you cannot go wrong with what Disney is picking. Seems I was correct in my assumption. It worked out well for him either way as he received the new PS3 for Christmas with the blue-ray technology built in. Kind of killed two birds with one stone so to speak. I also like all the pop up features that interact with your movie while you are watching it, makes watching the movie more then once more insightful. First, Warner Home Video announced in early January that it would stop releasing new titles in both HD DVD and Blu-ray. Wrong. Warner announced that they would be dropping support for HD DVD only on June So now we have the more expensive format, with less backwards compatibility and with more stringent usage restrictions. Blu-ray discs have been priced the same as the HD DVD discs. You even stated it earlier in your post the only exception were those hybrid HD DVD/DVD Combo discs which were typically priced 5 more than the non-combo HD DVDs. Both formats are backwards compatible with DVDs and CDs. The region coding available to Blu-ray is subject to the movie studios discretion. For instance, New Line chose to only release new releases on region-coded Blu-rays so as not to interfere with the theatrical runs of the movie in foreign countries. Were sticking with DVDs. We will just wait to see how it all shakes out. No hurry for us at this point. I have a Toshiba HD DVD player and even my regular DVDs look great on it. So I will be happy, just to buy regular DVD movies, if I cant get the HD DVD ones anymore. I have been buying HD movies and like the extra features, that are not on Blu-ray yet. I will just sit back and stick it my Toshiba until Sony produce a machine with the same capabilities, the same sort of price and get rid of thet drm that is so restrictive, that it can limit playback quality, if your tvs HDMI port is not the right level of firmware I have also read that movies produced for the next level of Blu-ray firmware, may not play on earlier machines. I feel with no competion, there is no incentive for prices to drop. Therefore it may still be some time, before the public, rushes out to buy this product in a any greater number. I may not buy right away, but the demise of HD DVD means Im that much closer. With one format, people will start to buy. That means prices will come down as production expands. Thats good news. Whether BluRay or HDDVD won isnt as important as the fact that one of them won quickly. FWIW, I dont buy that HD downloads will replace HD DVDs any time soon. Oh well, good to see it settled one way or the other but really, Sony won the SACD vs DVDA war too and then look what happened? Maybe people just dont care for more than their current experience, I mean good sound means little to people who in the main are happy with MP3 and redbook CD. Time for a new understanding of what people actually want stick it to stop foisting new platforms on us every decade. Anyone want to buy their favorites AGAIN in a new format? To the person who commented on pirating it only degrades the quality if you have to compress the recorded material. I have children and make back up copies so the originals stay intact. No degradation here as I make back ups on dual layer discs. No compression needed. I will not buy any blu ray player until it ceases being a work in progress technology and I can get a decent one for 1