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Paramount, Dreamworks back HD DVD, drop Blu-ray
DaveMMR:
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--- Quote ---At least the DVD vs. DIVX ("Digital Video Express" - not the codec) war was easy to choose sides for back in the late 90's.
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I remember that. That was probably like the movie 300, except in this case, the 300 all got slaughtered without doing much, if any damage.
I wonder who the poor idiots were who jumped on that format.
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A guy I work with bought a DIVX player for his parents - a few months later, it was nothing more than an overpriced DVD player (luckily, they did play regular DVDs).
I know the movie "Something About Mary" was only available on DIVX for a time. Basically Dreamworks, Paramount and Disney (as previously stated) were backing the system (the former two backing HD-DVD exclusively now) while everyone else jumped on the DVD bandwagon. Maybe history will repeat itself.
ChadTower:
Am I the only one who has a DivX compatible DVD player that regularly uses it to view DivX stuff? I just wish I could update the firmware to make it play DivX 6.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 21, 2007, 11:15:08 am ---Am I the only one who has a DivX compatible DVD player that regularly uses it to view DivX stuff? I just wish I could update the firmware to make it play DivX 6.
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Nope ... I have three.
Jeff AMN:
I have both HD-DVD and Blu Ray in my home. I actually prefer HD-DVD quite a bit, despite the lower storage capacity. It doesn't really matter for movies and such, but HD-DVD (currently) has WAY better features on the disc than the BD counterparts.
The HD-DVD tech is cheaper, more fully featured, and more similar to what we have with DVD. Either format could win the war and it's going to be the same to me, but I'd rather see HD-DVD succeed at this point. That and I feel that Sony could use a good humbling.
clanggedin:
Michael Bay said announced on his blog that this move was stupid on Paramount's part, and that he will not be making a Transformers 2 because of it. It will be interesting to see if he really follows through with this threat.
Does anyone remember the Videodiscs that came out in the 80s?? I remember renting movies on them. They only held 60 minutes of video on each side, so you had to flip the disc over to watch the rest of a movie. It was kinda like the laserdisc of the 80s.
I remember after buying my first DVD player I asked a Blockbuster employee when they would start renting DVDs. i was told that they did a survey and found that more households still had Betamax players than they did DVD players. LOL This was back in 1998.
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