Thanks Dubai for clearing that up…

New 10 Reasons:

1) You invested heavily in HD DVD media and need a backup machine in case your current machine dies

2) Mistress Dominique makes you buy one as punishment for being a naughty boy, in spite of your persistent use of your safe word, “Michael Bay”.

3) You need one to disassemble for the parts you need for your death ray

4) You’re putting together a museum of obsolete tech

5) For the crazy free movie deals; they’ll be collector’s items some day

6) You’re ignorant

7) You’re uninformed

8) You’re incredibly stubborn

9) You’re Dimitri

10) There is no 10

Blue ray has now become the standard, still very expensive and you need the full kit to make it worthwhile. At least it’s done now..

I don’t think it was a bad move buying an HD DVD player in addition to my Blu-Ray player.  I’ve been enjoying HD movies without having to think about which studio is supporting what format.  And frankly, I feel better knowing that the less expensive player is the one being obsoleted.  And it’s not like my HD DVD player is magically going to stop working now.  Heck, I may even pick up some new HD DVDs if they show up in the bargin bin somewhere.

Then again, I haven’t bought a new release in either format in the last two months—I haven’t seen anything worth buying.

HD DVD is toast, netflix, best buy, walmart, and target are all exclusively backing blu-ray, about all HD DVD had going was universal studios support, bad move buying an hd-dvd player, might be cheaper but what good is cheaper if you dont have any new releases to play on it

I’m not surprised.  Toshiba & Microsoft can’t make a go of it after losing studio support—stores can’t keep the shelf space for players if there are no new releases to drive player sales.

Personally, I find it strange that so many people defined themselves as being either in the ‘Blu’ or ‘Red’ camps, citing Microsoft’s and Sony’s anti-consumer behaviors as primary motive, and claiming some sort of perceived technological superiority to their perferred format.

After using both for the last year, I can say that performance of both is spectacular, yet both seem not quite done yet.