LG staying format neutral for the time being

Thank you LG for not abandoning HD DVD! Sure, the format war is over but until ~June movies are still coming out on HD DVD and for those of us with HD DVDs not being able to play them would be a nightmare.

I don't own either format, I refuse to own Blu-Ray due to its DRM filled life and, while I don't really like HD DVD either, its going to be impossible to get movies on that format in the near future.

I sat this war (or should I say skirmish) out and I will continue to do so for quite sometime.

Now if only they could make a cheaper HD-DVD player then we might have an excellent upscaling dvd player that could also play HD-DVD movies for those that bought them and they wouldn´t have to throw them away.

Switching seems to be the new trend... I think they should follow along...

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"LG believes that at this present moment in time, it is necessary to provide a player which supports both formats and therefore create simplicity and convenience for the existing HD DVD consumer,"

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in other words - "we see a closed niche market which has no chance of growing but at the same time has a loyal established customer base that no other elctronics giant wants to touch it with a ten foot pole so we will corner the market and make a killing"

absolutely nothing wrong with that and i'm pleased for HD-DVD buyers that they can have that support - especially when the big HD-DVD daddy has completely pulled the plug and left them high and dry overnight (Toshiba)

I just wish LG didn't have to be so patronising in making themselves out to be the noble and virtuous saviours of the HD-DVD fan - it's all for money - we accept that - why not just tell the truth for once ! they sure aren't doing it to lose money just to help out the HD-DVD crowd.

At least LG is providing a solution to all HD-DVD owners and allowing such owners make a less painful transition instead of having to purchase two separate players. In my personal opinion, HD-DVD has better codecs and in terms of picture quality I believe HD-DVD was superior.

Look at it this way. A console manufacturer in the near future could adopt the HD-DVD format and press games using these discs. It wouldn’t require any firmware updates nor provide consumer support, no one would be able to pirate them because blank media and recorders would not exist, except for the recorders that exist now but these recorders are compromised anyway. Toshiba can still profit from this format in a smaller scale since the manufacturing costs of these discs are relatively small in comparison to blu-ray. The format is useless for the movie industry, movie studios created such outcome but HD-DVD can be used in other ways.

Maybe but just maybe, by a long short near impossible of Sega might resurrect itself by using this dead format; It’s possible even though it is stupid to believe it would actually happen.

hd-dvd is still a viable format. I dont see why it cant be adopted for other things like data backup or even gaming, since its obviously cheaper to manufacture than blu-ray. I mean, if a game is only 20gb developers can save some cash by producing them on dddvd as opposed to bluray (for now).

Im not going to use a 4gb dvd to back up 500mb of data, thats why cd is a good choice. same thing for the hdddvd and bluray.

That's what I'm tying to get across. It can be used in game consoles, no one would be able to pirate their games since blank discs and recorders would not be avaiable.

Originally posted by locobrown:

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That's what I'm tying to get across. It can be used in game consoles, no one would be able to pirate their games since blank discs and recorders would not be avaiable.

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LAME!

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Originally posted by vinny13:
LAME!
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That would be your point of view if are in favor of pirating games. No one likes their games pirated, If I were a new up and coming console manufacturer I wouldn't either, I would look into the possiblity of using the HD-DVD format.

Originally posted by locobrown:

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At least LG is providing a solution to all HD-DVD owners and allowing such owners make a less painful transition instead of having to purchase two separate players. In my personal opinion, HD-DVD has better codecs and in terms of picture quality I believe HD-DVD was superior.

Look at it this way. A console manufacturer in the near future could adopt the HD-DVD format and press games using these discs. It wouldn’t require any firmware updates nor provide consumer support, no one would be able to pirate them because blank media and recorders would not exist, except for the recorders that exist now but these recorders are compromised anyway. Toshiba can still profit from this format in a smaller scale since the manufacturing costs of these discs are relatively small in comparison to blu-ray. The format is useless for the movie industry, movie studios created such outcome but HD-DVD can be used in other ways.

Maybe but just maybe, by a long short near impossible of Sega might resurrect itself by using this dead format; It’s possible even though it is stupid to believe it would actually happen.

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Well said :)

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there are still a number of consumers who have chosen HD DVD and begun to build a HD DVD collection.

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My dad started a nice Betamax collection a while back too.

That didn't stop VHS.


Good point LG [/sarcasm]

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"LG believes that at this present moment in time, it is necessary to provide a player which supports both formats and therefore create simplicity and convenience for the existing HD DVD consumer," read a press statement.

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See thats what i like reading a clear logical statment. What amazes me is that it is comming from LG a brand that i do not think very highly of. Just goes to show me that maybe there is more to the brand than i thought.

I think even though HD-DVD is said to be dead not literally I agree that it could be brought up for other uses.If you look at the next gen game consoles the Nintendo Wii is using Dvd.There is no high definition for the Wii,and it could be possible in the near future that Nintendo could use this format.I don't agree with the point that it can't be pirated though,because Blu-Ray movies and so forth are being pirated I bet.When it comes to games though its different,because they have a different layout.It wouldn't matter what format is available there will always be a way to copy it.I like LG since they are sticking with both formats,because I wouldn't say the format is dead either.