for those who had already bought HD-DVD player and do not want to spend another $300 on a BD player in the near future. Even if the studios no longer support HD-DVD, wouldnt it be nice if you can watch newer release with your HD-DVD player? get the content in Blue-Ray, convert it to HD-DVD and sell them to those still sticking with HD-DVD.
Well, IMHO, no matter who wins the format war... Blu-Ray/HD-DVD sales will really take off when the pirates succeed in making copies.
Thats called holding back the tide. Do you convert DVDs to VHS (I've heard plenty the other way around though... )?
Not to mention the encoding process will takes Gigabytes of HDD space and countless CPU processing power
The only reason now to own a stand-alone HD-DVD player at the moment it to get yourself a quality Toshiba upconverting regular DVD player
Aiee, DVD to VHS is too far. Something like DVD to CD (VCD) would make more sense. And lots of people used to do that
Regardless its still denial. Prolonging the inevitable. And why is it too far? Is it not the same concept? Only difference is that VHS and VCDs were still used (not a dead format). Plus, what are you gonna do when no one makes the discs? I don't really see fresh supplies of Betamax tapes...
lol but but... both CD and DVDs are round and can be burned via the computer which makes them much more similar to HD-DVD and Bluray. Anyway, nobody is going to be copying HD-DVD to Bluray, unless they really want to import their library to the other format. And speaking of VHS', I really shouldnt have bought more than I needed. I still have a dozen of them lying in my basement QQ
Hmm.. Are they still making VHS tapes? Haven't seen any in quite a while now. BTW, DYKT Polaroid has just announced they have discontinued the production of all their instant photo films.
I remember seeing some VHS tapes at a small local store. Polaroid's instant photo films weren't that good anyway, and with digital photos being so cheap nowadays
Apparently, there's still quite a lot of demand for it. Looks like Polaroid is looking to sell off the rights to the technology to any interested party.