Comments on: HD-DVD vs Blu-ray war heating up with the holidays

By: GadgetPig

GadgetPig — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:05:39 +0000

No doubt the PS3 is a great machine. Problem is that the PS3 seems to be the ONLY way to watch blu-ray movies cheaply. It is cannibalizing sales of other blu-ray standalones and actually hurts adoption as a movie player. (for those not wanting the games console)

Why force PS3 to those of us who have no use for a game console? Where are the $99-$199 blu-ray BD 2.0 profile ready players?

Until that time I’m happy with my HD-DVD, Fast and Furious, and Matrix Movie Sets :)

By: J

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:23:58 +0000

Well where i live i know of 1 person who owns a PS3 and about 15-20 people who have an xbox 360. AS far as i know i am the only person who has a hd dvd player but the sales people at bestbuy, futureshop etc have said that people don’t buy the blu ray because it is not cheap enough. If you think about it many people are buying and HDTV and HD DVD player.(most peoplpe buy hd dvd than bluray here) the movie sales are more equal but there is more shelf space at walmart.

By: G-

G- — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:27:43 +0000

I have a PS3 and nearly all my friends have one too. I use it all the time to play Blu ray movies and for this reason I dont plan to purchase a player. Best buy is having awesome deals right now on the sony player. Too good to resist!

Go BluRay! Down with HD DVD

By: b

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:21:35 +0000

Actually the blu-ray player on the ps3 rivals the high end standalones its of fantastic quality and is future proof with updates. so me being a ps3 owner have no need for seperate player, unless i had a HDTV in another room of course, which i dont.

By: nev

nev — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:58:37 +0000

SLim_Brooklyn23 – You make it sound like everyone has a PS3. I don’t think the numbers are as high as Sony has planned. Also, did you use your old PS2 for a DVD player or did you have a DVD player as well as a PS2?

By: SLim_Brooklyn23

SLim_Brooklyn23 — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:30:48 +0000

These stats are totally irrelevant because the people who own PS3’s already will not choose the Blue Ray Format because they have it out the Box. XBOX360 owners can still choose the HDDVD format because they don’t have it out of the box so to display this article is a total waste of time. And I am almost sure that HD TiVo is more popular then both formats.