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Nope. Don't have a HD TV, so no reason for one right now. Although the 8 free HD movies and player from amazon is tempting. Almost time for a new tv anyways.

Well, I think the results of this unbiased poll clearly show who the winner in the format war is: DVD.

Apart from that, this poll should have had options for standalone BR, or a PS3.

Haha, they might as well make a Xbox 360 vs PS3 poll aswell. But thats no competition!

I have a PS3 no need for xbox360 hd dvd or a stand alone hd dvd. I hear the xbox hd dvd drive suck balls.. is that true ?

I just got the XBox360 HD DVD add on player. It's nice to be able to compare side by side the quality of HD vs DVD (and my TV isn't even a really nice HDTV, but the results are astoundingly different) The movie 300 has HD-DVD on one side and standard DVD on the other and I watched a fight scene in HD and then fliped the disk over to HD and it was like the difference between night and day!

Also I plan to backup my HD DVD collection with HD WMVs and stream them to my 360 when I want to watch them.

Right now the process for converting/transcoding is a little messy and you REALLY need to know what you're doing, but it can be done. And someday someone will make an all-in-one program that's one click away from what you want. But for now people have to do it "the hard way"

mines in the mail ordered when amazon had the 8 dvd deal (king kong, + your choice of any 2 movies, + the 5 that comes with the mail in deal through MS)

Blu-ray ftw... sorry.

nope, meh.

None. I actually like to go outside. Har har!

Definently, then we could see if people had bought standalone players or only have them with their PS3.

haha, I go outside when the sun's out... otherwise I'm downstairs enjoying the HD-DVD via a 360 add-on without the glare through the windows.

the 360's drive is perfect for the price, not sure about the quality compared to the newer 2G and 3G toshiba players with all their fancy pants features... oh well, at least I get 1080, I can't tell the difference between i and p on a tv set less than 100 inches...

No, it's not true. At least not in my eyes, and I seem to be very picky sometimes.

I have a Xbox 360 HD-DVD add on. I got it for $150 and i now have five movies for it and five more being shipped to my house. I don't regret it.

How about another option for the poll "No, but I'd buy one for my 360 if it was cheaper".

No, but I'd buy a standalone if it was cheaper too.

its essentially free when you factor in all the free movies it comes with. i paid 180 shipped for the player with 8 free movies. thats essentially $20 each for the movies, and another $20 for the player itself.

I loved my 360 HD DVD player, then i went to college and i couldnt take the 65in rear proj dlp with me. I tried very hard though.

I don't have one, sure they are pretty, but on my 19" HDTV I really can't tell enough of a difference between DVD and HD DVD to make me want to spend the money.

Not got one yet but now i see that Hd-dvd is pulling ahead of overpriced and pointless blueray im going to buy one and back it.

looks like the NO is almost got 65percent of the votes which is what i voted for was NO

cause right now im happy enough with standard dvd cause me personally i dont have a hdtv in my room even though we have a projection HDTV 1080i in the main room i almost never use it and it's image quality aint that great to begin with.

but if i where going to get a hd-dvd player i would most likely NOT get the 360 add on cause even though it's much cheaper than a standalone player you just never know when your 360 is going to die cause of all the 3rlod issues plus my 360 is loud as crap cause of the Nyko Intercooler EX i have on it... so to sum it up ill never buy a hd-dvd addon device for the 360 even if i had a top of the line HDTV.

looks like theres alot of smart people based on the results of the poll.

p.s. and also, theres no clear winner in the format war yet anyways so it's wise to stay clear of either format until i got a clear winner.... but if i was super rich i would probably buy both blu-ray/hd-dvd just cause even if it's slightly better than standard dvd you might as well get it if you can afford it... but for the average joe... dont bother with either hd-dvd or blu-ray til theres a clear winner... but one thing i dont like is this "exclusive" crap that either format tries to do with certain movies, which sucks if you ask me cause it sorta forces you to get both formats especially if a movie you really want is on the format that you dont have.

by sucks balls do you mean gives a fantastic picture at a great price?...or is this just a personal dislike of ms for you?

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I'd get one if HD DVD wasn't losing to Bluray.

No HDTV yet so no HD-DVD. Even when I do get a HD TV I doubt I'll bother with a HD player. DVD is good enough for me and I don't fancy wasting my money re-buying films I already own just to watch them again in (overpriced) HD.

with just buying a house and a new car a few months back, jumping on one bandwagon would be pricy now, i want a ps3 bad and if i was to go HD-DVD i would prefer standalone as a Standalone will probaly sit in my entertainment System longer then the add-on, but what i really want is one of them dual format players, so i don't get screwed to just one format, can buy exclusive from both sides an let the fuckers fight it to the death, no worries that way

i got the hd dvd addon for my 360 on clearance at wal-crap i use it plugged into my pc more then anything its nice to be able to watch hd dvds, although only on a 20" widescreen it still looks nice and crisp sitting up close and personal, if i feel like kicking back then i setup my projector and watch them through it, although only 1080i i cant see a difference

no.. and i don't plan to buy one for a few years.

i have both blu-ray and hd-dvd. i stopped buying blu-ray movies. they appear flat (like there is a lack of sharpness in the encoding). both are hooked to the same tv running through hdmi. the only thing i can say about the ps3, since its my blu-ray player, is it does have the uncompressed audio out, which is nice. other than that, i still prefer hd-dvd in the end, as its all about the picture quality.

to the guy above, it's not all about the video quality (format neutral studios use same video encode for both formats), for me sound is a very big deal and after hearing HD Audio all others are no comparison. I had the 360 HD DVD addon for about a week but without the future ability to output hd audio formats due to the lack of hdmi 1.3 on my 360 elite I decided to return it. Besides they only come in white and it looks ugly next to my black 360. I'll buy a stand alone when they're priced bellow $200. I have a PS3 and im format neutral for the moment but I prefer blu-ray of the two, i feel better about them having a mandatory hard coat especially since I had an HD DVD come scratched from an un opened package.

I would have liked to see Blu-Ray win (I am anti-Sony even), but it will be Hd-dvd if anything. DVD will be the standard though for now. But I could possibly see both formats stickin' around....

using PowerDVD Ultra to play my HD files on PC on my HD Monitor

I bought the 360 HD DVD addon when Amazon was offering the 8 movies. So I now have King Kong, 300 and Last Samurai. I just need to wait the 8-10 weeks to get the other ones. I just hope they come through with it.

I have a 55" Sony 768p set and a 37" Westinghouse 1080p set (specifically for games). I have this hooked up through my HTPC using HDMI and the quality looks great on both sets. The Westinghouse looks a little crisper due to 1080p and the slightly smaller screen size but the Sony still looks mighty fine too.

I don't think that HD DVD nor Blu-Ray will "win". By the time the differences are settled, a new format will already be on the horizon and the current DVD owners will leap frog both HD DVD and Blu-Ray to this new format. These formats will be best for DVR purposes and putting recorded programs onto disc.

DVD still looks great and I think it will take the FCC's retirement of standard definition to really push people. That's still like 2 years away and most people will probably be fine with HDTV but still using DVD (or upconverted DVD).

That's just my view. Technology moves too fast these days. It wasn't like it was 20 years ago when there was cassette and then CD took over. It took CD a good 5-10 years before it became entrenched in peoples houses and the quality was vastly superior to cassette (even cassette with Dolby NR). DVD came out a while ago but as others have posted, I think the vast majority of people are content with DVD and are not actively going after either HD format. I think the HD DVD/Blu-Ray battle has been the worst thing for HD... If there was a concensus from the beginning, we would probably already see the migration begin. Instead, there is this battle and many people decided to sit back and not invest in either just in case the other wins. In this situation, options might end up killing the technology.

I've gotta get a new TV before I can bother with BR or HD-DVD, so no on this question.

Yep just got one.

Now if only the movies became a little cheaper...


And if there where more porn movies on hddvd, the sellings would raise sky high

vhs+porn= succes
internet+porn= succes
betamax+ no porn = failure

Etc etc

My laptop has a built in HD-DVD drive, and truthfully never used it.......I usually just watch HDDVD rips if I really am looking for something in HD (plus majority of HD movies released aren't even full 1080p yet). I am glad I have an HD-DVD (wanted that instead of Blue-Ray for various reasons), but truthfully for me it really makes no difference (I want an hd-dvd player so I can rip hd-dvd movies when I get some more money ) to me as 90% of the media I watch is not on a disc, but my hdd, simple hdmi output to my hd-tv and viola, no messing with hdcp compliant bs.

I bought the HDDD player for my 360 and I love it! I heard some people complaining about the color being washed out or something but it looks great on my tv! and with all the free extras, its definitly worth it.

I have the HD DVD add on.... Ut's connected via HDMI through my 360 Elite, to me 50 inch Samsung DLP. I love it. It truly spoils the movie watchers. My only complant with it was when it came out. I got it on launch day and at that time there wasn't a whole lot of title's released. It was a little frusrating but I gave it time like everyone kept saying and now jsut about everything is starting to be offered in HD.

To everyone worried about a failed format you are not thinking it through. The backing is there and their may be NO winner in the business but we will win. If you have a HDTV look at the companys that you usualy watch movies from and buy that format. Soon players will drop in price and if they do not play both formats they will not sell. You will always have the player you buy so you can always watch the movies you buy. If you have kids the choice is easy(HD DVD).

As for quality they are both the same encoding so it is the hardware NOT the format that determins the picture.

For those that have went with HD be carefull of buying dvds that are older releases new to the format. I have found some that seem to be upscaled to HD and not actualy filmed with the intention of HD format. If you have it on regular DVD and have an upscale capable dvd player, do not rebuy it in HD thinking there is a huge difference because there is not always a worthy improvement for the money.

standerd dvd for me. i say let em fight it out untill they both fail. people will indeed leapfrog the format war at least most will. i whont wast my money on any of the new formats anyways. call me when they get off using mpeg style compression and start using h264. i have seen h264 even at low rates blow any other compression meda away.

I have the Xbox HD DVD addon, and a PS3...
But i must say i like watching movies on the PS3 better as it is much more quiet, the fan in the HD DVD addon and Xbox SUX...

blu ray all the way!

HD DVD all the way. I can't wait for Transformers to come out in HD DVD!!!!

btw, there will be no Transformers on Blu-Ray...

Frankly... I'm just not wealthy enough to pay for HD.

wow, currently 64% NO - which is where i voted - interesting to see how slow this "new" technology has spread...actually it is not that surprising since the cost is prohibitive for not much improvement in quality, although probably in the next 1-2 years when i redesign my home theater i may move towards one of the optical hi-def formats...

I also don't have one. For one, I don't have a high-def television right now. Two, even if I did I'm not forking out the money to replace my humongous dvd collection. Are you crazy? The difference in quality is not enough to justify the pricing, in my opinion. Blue-ray this, HD-DVD that, the world isn't ready to embrace high-def, despite what all the commercials show on tv.

are they going to be coming out with a black dvd add on soon? cause that's all i'm waiting for. i'd never seen a movie in hd-dvd or blu-ray till this weekend and wasn't really interested. i was at a friends house and i was watching ghost rider and it looked so good not grainy like on my t.v. (normal dvd's on Olevia 747i) turned out it was a blue-ray on ps3 so i'm all about getting one now. (dvd add on that is...)

I don't see the point of getting HD DVD or Bluray right now. One reason being the fact that we do not know which format will lose this generations format war so if I spent my money on a Bluray drive I would not want to find out in a years time that HD DVD was the standard and Bluray was obsolete.

I think I will wait for technology to improve on both formats, price drops on both and finally a confirmed standard on which format the world will choose

For those of you that think there isn't much difference between DVD and HDDVD/Bluray, you are completely, out of this world wrong. My guess is you have never actually seen it and just say that to help justify your inability to switch currently. Which there isn't anything wrong with, just don't make up things. The difference is extremely obvious and any regular Joe off the street can tell. The only other explanation is that whatever you are comparing it to is an extremely low quality HDTV.

to the people that dont know the real difference between hd dvd and blu ray disc, size is the true difference.
theoretically you could put an hd dvd on a blue ray disc, twice, and play it in your blu ray player if you had the technology

Ok, I just wanted to add my 5 cents to why this poll is inacurate/wrong


My choice:
* no, but I have a Blu-ray player




I asume 90% of the visitors are Xbox360 users, or people considering to buy Xbox360 (The "no votes").

Now I would never vote here, except that I browsed the comments, and noone mentioned that only Xbox360 users can vote ... (well or if you're bothered enough to register just to vote)... so the obvious thing is HD DVD will win here.

If you had the same poll on a PS3 forum/scene page, about 60-95% of the people would answer they have a Blueray player. And I guess like 0-5% that they have a HD DVD player




This is just a post pointing out the "obvious"... not a flame or anything

I have just entered the 'HD-Gaming' era as of about a year ago when i bought my first 360. Thats a big step for me personally because im not a rich man. So in terms of High Defintion - Gaming is as far as I will go with it at this point.

Standard DVD's on my HDTV look good enough for my blood, as long as my games are looking their best im happy. This of course will change over time and I'll open the door to HD movies/players when theres a format standard and the price drops considerably.

Until then, the buck stops here.