I bought the add on HD-DVD for the Xbox with the matrix collection King Kong and a few other movies for 32 bucks. I feel I got my moneys worth at the time.
I bought and still own an internal PC HD DVD drive, (also supports Blu-ray). I bought a few HD DVD disc's when they were being sold off cheaply when the format was on it's way out - Harry Potter, Hot Fuzz and Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
Same here. Just picked up an A35 for $10 plus about a dozen discs. Kroger in the south ended up with tons of HD-DVD’s after the format died for $5 or less and I snagged a Samsung combo player for a steal back in the day because it was open box. I still use them when I want to watch something I don’t have on BluRay or it looks better on HD-DVD (though that is much less of an issue now as it was a number of years ago. The Xbox add on is great for ripping discs if you don’t have an internal drive. (Though they do suffer from the lone capacitor inside failing and Windows cannot detect the drive, only the memory units. An easy fix but many missed it and tossed their drives.) Other than the major Warner Bros. disc rot fiasco, it was a cheap way to go HD when Blu was still ridiculously expensive.
@@aaronloanzon3459 Nearly ALL HD-DVDs and many DVDs manufactured by Cinram in PA self destructed due to manufacturing defects. Had the format not failed, WB would have likely faced a big class action lawsuit.
I remember being extremely happy when I bought my PS3 back on Boxing day in 2009 (I got three games as bundle with the system as well as Batman Arkham Asylum for $20.00 Canadian). Then I bought my first two blu ray movies along with both a braided Sony brand HDMI and USB cables on the same day and watching T2: Judgement Day in high Def was freaking awesome!
I had the Xbox 360 attachment. For me the player always struggled to play Warner Bros titles. I managed to pick up about 60 titles over the years. I haven’t used the drive since about 2017, but I still have the Xbox 360, the drive and all the movies.
I can’t say it was all, but buying another copy usually yielded the same results. Some titles I had trouble with include Blazing Saddles, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and the Matrix Trilogy. I had 2 copies of the first two I mentioned.
Warner Bros single layer movies were pressed by a factory that had an error in the manufacturing of the recording layer causing something known as “disc rot” also many of the combo format discs also exhibit this on the HD-DVD side. Warner wasn’t the only culprit but the largest offender. Of my once 30 or so WB titles, only about 5-6 still work today
I read an interview with George Lucas when asked when Star Wars would be hitting high definition he was waiting for the format wars to end but did state that he was siding with Bluray to come out the victor, so yeah based on that I was going with Bluray too.
@@techindex1Another thing is that the home media releases for Star Wars were handled (at the time) by Fox who sided with Blu-ray over anti-piracy concerns.
It failed because the title is too fucking cumbersome. Saying Aitch Dee Dee Vee Dee is it like gargling socket wrenches. I'm not keen about Sony but at least Bluray flows.
interesting video, only comment is you can't use the success of Blu-ray as one of the reason why HD DVD was unsuccessful. Since the success of blu-ray was because HD DVD was unsuccessful. That's circular logic.
I never owned hd dvd. Own many blu ray, still my preferred format, even in a digital world, having the superior picture and audio than most streaming services. 4k is good. But blu ray is back bone to many collections
Blu-ray always appealed more to me, also great to own some of your content rather than rely on a streaming service keeping your favourite films available
JD wasn’t region free like blue Ray was that’s why I loved blue Ray more on my PS3 I can play any region I can even buy games earlier then the release date if Japan gets the game first which has been going on for years but as soon the entire world got fought up with 4K every game comes out the same time as Japan no longer Japan gets the games first what would you like HD that’s not region free or blue Ray that’s region free
The main reason Blu-ray defeated HD DVD is SONY accepted adult video distribution . The main reason VHS outsold SONYs BETA format is VHS allowed adult video dealerships and SONY didn't .
Did you ever have a HD DVD player and did you get much use from it?
I bought the add on HD-DVD for the Xbox with the matrix collection King Kong and a few other movies for 32 bucks. I feel I got my moneys worth at the time.
Blu ray had more storage, had a studio already under their belt. The ps3 came out at the right time, the war was over before it really began.
True! HD DVD never stood much of a chance
I bought and still own an internal PC HD DVD drive, (also supports Blu-ray). I bought a few HD DVD disc's when they were being sold off cheaply when the format was on it's way out - Harry Potter, Hot Fuzz and Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
pretty cool
Same here.
Just picked up an A35 for $10 plus about a dozen discs. Kroger in the south ended up with tons of HD-DVD’s after the format died for $5 or less and I snagged a Samsung combo player for a steal back in the day because it was open box. I still use them when I want to watch something I don’t have on BluRay or it looks better on HD-DVD (though that is much less of an issue now as it was a number of years ago. The Xbox add on is great for ripping discs if you don’t have an internal drive. (Though they do suffer from the lone capacitor inside failing and Windows cannot detect the drive, only the memory units. An easy fix but many missed it and tossed their drives.) Other than the major Warner Bros. disc rot fiasco, it was a cheap way to go HD when Blu was still ridiculously expensive.
Glad to hear people still getting use out of them!
@@joes9954 I’m glad I’m not the only one who had trouble with Warner bros discs.
@@aaronloanzon3459 Nearly ALL HD-DVDs and many DVDs manufactured by Cinram in PA self destructed due to manufacturing defects. Had the format not failed, WB would have likely faced a big class action lawsuit.
I remember being extremely happy when I bought my PS3 back on Boxing day in 2009 (I got three games as bundle with the system as well as Batman Arkham Asylum for $20.00 Canadian). Then I bought my first two blu ray movies along with both a braided Sony brand HDMI and USB cables on the same day and watching T2: Judgement Day in high Def was freaking awesome!
Sounds awesome! I also recall getting Arkham Asylum with my PS3 slim, what a game!
I had the Xbox 360 attachment. For me the player always struggled to play Warner Bros titles. I managed to pick up about 60 titles over the years. I haven’t used the drive since about 2017, but I still have the Xbox 360, the drive and all the movies.
I wonder why that is, was it all Warner Bros titles?
I can’t say it was all, but buying another copy usually yielded the same results. Some titles I had trouble with include Blazing Saddles, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and the Matrix Trilogy. I had 2 copies of the first two I mentioned.
Warner Bros single layer movies were pressed by a factory that had an error in the manufacturing of the recording layer causing something known as “disc rot” also many of the combo format discs also exhibit this on the HD-DVD side. Warner wasn’t the only culprit but the largest offender. Of my once 30 or so WB titles, only about 5-6 still work today
I still have and occasionally use my HD DVD player. But I've slowly replaced most of the HD DVDs in my collection with blu-ray or 4K.
Glad to hear it’s still working!
I read an interview with George Lucas when asked when Star Wars would be hitting high definition he was waiting for the format wars to end but did state that he was siding with Bluray to come out the victor, so yeah based on that I was going with Bluray too.
Interesting, I’m surprised a title with the popularity of Star Wars didn’t consider releasing on both!
@@techindex1Another thing is that the home media releases for Star Wars were handled (at the time) by Fox who sided with Blu-ray over anti-piracy concerns.
streaming is not cheaper after enough months of charges
Fair point but for a similar cost per month to one HD DVD you get a lot more content
It failed because the title is too fucking cumbersome. Saying Aitch Dee Dee Vee Dee is it like gargling socket wrenches. I'm not keen about Sony but at least Bluray flows.
Very true 😂 I didn’t realise how awkward it is to say until I said it multiple times making this video
This channel is so underrated until now 😊😊
Thank you!!
interesting video, only comment is you can't use the success of Blu-ray as one of the reason why HD DVD was unsuccessful. Since the success of blu-ray was because HD DVD was unsuccessful. That's circular logic.
True they definitely both feed into each other
Studio support.
This was a big factor!
Once Warner chose Blu-ray just ahead of CES, Toshiba shut down its booth, and that was the final straw.
I never owned hd dvd. Own many blu ray, still my preferred format, even in a digital world, having the superior picture and audio than most streaming services. 4k is good. But blu ray is back bone to many collections
Blu-ray always appealed more to me, also great to own some of your content rather than rely on a streaming service keeping your favourite films available
JD wasn’t region free like blue Ray was that’s why I loved blue Ray more on my PS3 I can play any region I can even buy games earlier then the release date if Japan gets the game first which has been going on for years but as soon the entire world got fought up with 4K every game comes out the same time as Japan no longer Japan gets the games first what would you like HD that’s not region free or blue Ray that’s region free
Great point about region free that’s something I hadn’t considered
@@techindex1 well you should consider it it was a nightmare back in the days I needed the Japanese PS2 to play Japanese games
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only blu-ray
It’s certainly one of the main factors
The main reason Blu-ray defeated HD DVD is SONY accepted adult video distribution . The main reason VHS outsold SONYs BETA format is VHS allowed adult video dealerships and SONY didn't .
Wow never knew this, thanks for making me aware, I assumed they both would accept it
@@techindex1 Not when the VCRs first came out . I think after a few years SONY allowed adult video movies for Beta
This is simply not a contributing factor to Blu-ray winning at all. VHS yes, not this war.