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Blu-Ray dectrators echo 1990s DVD hate

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2008-08-21 18:22:36 by Rob Beschizza in Boing Boing Gadgets
CNET goes back the the mid-1990s to excavate the reasons given then why the new "DVD" laserdiscs would never be a success. The punchline is, of course, that most of them are identical to the reasons now given why Blu-Ray will fail The first three: No-one will re-buy movies they've got on VHS; there aren't enough movies on the format; recording...
 
Tags: blu-ray, blu-ray cnet, cnet, dvd, re-buy movies, movies, decade-old philosophical objections, movie industry, real challenge
 
 
 
 
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DVD Book Type Setting - Troubleshooting DVD Burning Problems

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2008-04-29 17:09:17 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
Codeguys.rpc1.org is a popular website run by C0deKing and Kanalratte that offers crossflashing and overclocking of your DVDRW drives using "hacked" firmware for your DVD burner. Often the hacked firmware enables missing features such as overclocking the speed of the DVD burn and more importantly, setting the 'book type' permanently to...
 
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HD-DVD: Don't Throw in The Towel

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2008-01-05 22:59:46 by Lance Ulanoff in Gearlog
Dear HD-DVD I know things look bad right now. One of your closest and perhaps smartest partners--Warner Home Video--has walked away from you. You're reaction has been strangely muted and now I hear you've canceled a CES press conference. Not good, HD-DVD I don't think the war is over, but I understand why things look grim. If you want to...
 
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The Truth About the Format War and HD DVD's Demise [The End Of The Format War]

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2008-01-21 10:00:00 by matt buchanan in Gizmodo
Most people have already declared Blu-ray to be the format war's victor even us, begrudgingly and our recent talks with Toshiba and Universal seem to suggest that the HD DVD camp might be ready to pull up stakes. Back at CES, so many moons ago, Microsoft said HD DVD was over when Toshiba said it was. Ken Graffeo, Universal's Executive VP and...
 
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Toshiba Kills HD DVD

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2008-02-19 00:29:33 by Rob Beschizza in Gadget Lab
Toshiba announced Tuesday that it will no longer manufacture HD DVD hardware. From its press release Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following...
 
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A Consumer's Cheat Sheet to HD DVD's Death and Blu-ray's Victory [Format War Over]

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2008-02-19 14:09:45 by Jason Chen in Gizmodo
HD DVD is dead . Officially. That may mean a whole bunch for the early-adopter tech geek crowd that's been wading in the kiddie pool of technological bickering and backhandedness for years, but what does it mean for the average consumer with only a cursory interest in high-def DVDs? Here's our cheat sheet Q&A for you to whip out if you ever have...
 
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Fire Sale: CompUSA clearing out HD DVD player, movies

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2008-02-22 03:22:44 by Peter Ha in CrunchGear
The above picture pretty much explains it all. CompUSA is clearing everything out and heres your chance to cash in. Its only the 720p player but when you factor in the seven movies its not too bad a deal at $90. But you want the 1080p player dont you? Yeah, I thought so. Theres even a deal on a 1080p Vizio. Check it out after the jump Thanks for...
 
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Circuit City's HD DVD for Blu-Ray Trade-In Confirmed By Sources, Readers [Dealzmodo]

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2008-03-06 00:59:17 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
Readers of Gizmodo and Digg have been able to confirm Circuit City's not-so-secret-anymore HD DVD for Blu-Ray player trade-in offer we uncovered yesterday morning. One report from a Giz reader says that he used the offer to get a new PlayStation 3. In addition to this, we just got all the dirt in the internal memo, aptly titled "HD DVD - The...
 
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Circuit Citys HD DVD for Blu-Ray Trade-In Confirmed By Sources, Readers [Dealzmodo]

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2008-03-06 05:59:17 by posted by Pantha in
Readers of Gizmodo and Digg have been able to confirm Circuit City's not-so-secret-anymore HD DVD for Blu-Ray player trade-in offer we uncovered yesterday morning. One report from a Giz reader says that he used the offer to get a new PlayStation 3. In addition to this, we just got all the dirt in the internal memo, aptly titled "HD DVD - The...
 
Tags: dvd, dvd players, dvd endcap, dvd software, dvd player purchase, dvd titles, movie titles disappear, titles, dvd movie titles