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FutureDreamz wrote:

Any news about Canada?

I think "Canadia" = "Canada"

but thats just me.

<----*nudges Bat*
Ahem, my birthday is at the end of March.

Serious note: Now that's a tempting price point. Wonder if it still includes the free HD-DVDs.

I maybe would've bought one for $80 at Amazon when they were running that promotion when this was first announced... but I would really rather wait until this is over and I can buy just one piece of hardware and be done with it.

Booksley wrote:

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

<----*nudges Bat*
Ahem, my birthday is at the end of March.

Serious note: Now that's a tempting price point. Wonder if it still includes the free HD-DVDs.

Yup. They mentioned that in the article. But we never read the article, we just read Bat's snippet and discuss that

D'oh BUSTED!!!1111!!!!

::EDIT::
In defense the lil FYI on the free HD-DVDs is in the comments and not the article. I don't always read the comments too. But as proven here I don't always read the articles either.

Last edited by LLEVIATHANN (2008-02-07 4:45 pm)

Bat wrote:

Mr. LLe- 'I'm married so never see money but play a new $60 game on XBL every week or two' -viathan ).

Ummm that's my allowance...yeah that's the ticket.

C'mon now I got two games for Christmas (Mass and Assassins). The kids got Viva ($20) and I just picked up Condemned because CC has it on clearance for $9. Hey if a good game hits the < $19.99 point I’m all over it. Quake 4 would be on the shelf too if there were any in stock (another $9 @ CC).

CoD 4 is on sale this week for $37 just might pull the trigger on that because I keep getting asked to play.

In a related story, Netflix has announced that they will only carry high definition movies in Blu-ray format.

Netflix press release wrote:

As part of the transition to Blu-ray, the company said it will acquire no new HD DVDs but that its current HD DVD inventory would continue to rent until the discs' natural life cycle takes them out of circulation in the coming months.

Netflix press release
Engadget article

Yeah, I wept.  HD-DVD is dying faster and faster these days, and I just bought my 360's HD-DVD drive last fall at the $179 price point.

Oh well, even at that price point it was a good deal, and I can still rip that apart and put it in a computer.  Maybe I'll get a Blu-Ray burner at some point to convert my HD-DVDs to Blu-Ray.

This might be it for HD-DVD:

DailyTech wrote:

Wal-Mart to Give HD DVD the Boot, Sides With Blu-ray
The HD DVD Promotional Group is going to have a hard time recovering from today's announcement from Wal-Mart. The enormous retail giant announced on its Check Out blog that it has chosen Blu-ray as its high-definition platform of choice.

Full article

Also, it looks like Toshiba might pull the plug on HD-DVD themselves shortly:

The Hollywood Reporter wrote:

Toshiba is widely expected to pull the plug on its HD DVD format sometime in the coming weeks, reliable industry sources say, after a rash of retail defections that followed Warner Home Video's announcement in early January that it would support only the rival Blu-ray Disc format after May.

More in the full article on hardware and disc sales.

Bat wrote:

for me it's actually kind of... peaceful.

Same here.
I couldn't really care less which side wins so much as there's a clear winner and one side dies off because of it.

Finally!

DailyTech wrote:

Toshiba Officially Surrenders in HD Format War
After days of intense speculation, Toshiba today officially announced that it will exit the HD DVD business. According to the press release, Toshiba decided after a thorough review of its overall strategy it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.

Article

They'll still be providing support for the 730,000 players that are out there already (including 300,000 XBox 360 add-on drives), but they'll have stopped manufacturing and shipping players by the end of March.
They're still "committed" to "collaborative relations" with their content partners, but as Toshiba was the only company making players, it's effectively over.

At least this should accelerate release of BD drives and accessories for all. Good timing, since blue lasers and other BD-critical parts have been getting much cheaper lately, making Blu components more affordable, sooner.

The stalemate on the Wester.. er, Far Eastern Front ist kaput.

if you run bootcamp and want a cheap drive to do HD rips of cheap discs.....well there might be a use for it.