17,000 people calling to save HD-DVD?

Apparently, there is a petition being heard in movieland that people are wanting Warner to continue supporting Blu-Ray, concluding that the 'consumers have not spoken' and that people prefer buying a lower cost, up-to-date standalone HD-DVD player than the non-forwards compatible, standard unset standalone BluRay players.

So far, over 17,000 people have signed.

News here:
http://imdb.com/news/sb/2008-01-22/#3

Petition here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/SAVEHDD/

Opinions?

EDIT - Yay! Over 300 posts!

 

Not to sound like a blu-ray fanboy or anything but petitions (to me) always seem to be used as a last act of desperation.

 

Hey, it worked for Family Guy. As long as enough people get angry with their wallets, companies listen.

 

impressive.. 17000 is what... 95% of all the HDDVD users?

 

I suppose I have to enscript myself as I just bought an HDDVD drive for my Xbox 360. Well that was only because I have no opportunity to get a PS3 in the next 1-2years, but still..

 

Although I don't have serious aligence with any format, I know a few friends who say they refuse to buy Warner products, nor blu-ray products.

I asked them "For how long?" and they said "Forever. Its the principle. Sticking it to the man". Some people.

 

Gosh 17,000 people, signed up on an online petition? I'm sure 17,000 people would sign a petition asking Microsoft to re-release MS-DOS...

Maybe if they had signed a petition using various bank notes and bought a few more HD-DVDs then that might have been more effective?

 

Not signing, I don't wanna have a PS3 as furniture.

 

Exactly, forget petitions, buy more movies. Or actually call them. 17000 phone calls is a bit different then some petition

 

Surely furniture would imply it was a common household thing with regular general use, rather than - say - an ornament which looks pretty but doesn't do much.

(cue PS3 gag here).

 

All HD-DVD owners, probably.

 

DVD sales and ratings on Adult Swim played a far larger part in resurrecting Family Guy (and Futurama) than any petition.

 

HD DVD player sales do seem to have spiked in my area as of late. Went into the nearby Costco this evening to buy an HD-D3 unit now that it's been reduced to $129.99 with HDMI cable and 2 movies in the box. To my surprise, Costco sold out of their entire allotment and have 48 more units in transit for delivery this week.

While it's a longshot, Toshiba still has a chance in this war.

 

maybe hddvd can be embrace as a "homemade HD format" for your own videos and BR as a major/professional format?

that way toshiba might have a chance, but they'll have to reduce HDDVD burner's and blanks dramatically and FAST.

 

I was always under the impression that in the movie industry everything was recorded etc in HD-DVD so strange the sudden change to B-R?

I genuinely think HD is better than b-r when compared side by side and well done to M-S for making the add-on player region free

The whole world should do this, enough people can hack or buy region free anyway

 

codec is the same, actually. also it seems that beside being the same HDDVD is using lower bitrates, so, no.

i consider BR better, but i agree that region protection sucks, tought on BR is optional from what i understood.

 

Complete rubbish dreamt up by BluRay fanboys. HD-DVD versions have the same bitrates as BluRay encoded the same way. When BluRay was still using the MPEG2 codec the bitrates were higher due to it being a less 'squishable' format.

On an interesting side-note, Digital Cinemas use JPEG2000 as their encoding standard.

 

Thats not true. Dual releases usually have the same encode on both discs so of course they will be the same bitrate. Paramount (before switching) maximized their releases for each platform, giving blu-ray more bitrate. Exclusive Bluray studios maximize their bitrates to levels that HD DVD simply cant achieve.

 

but the question is, can the average person actually notice? If not then what's the point? Me, I don't own either but I like the HDDVD idea and name. Blue Ray just sounds like pop culture to me. And before anyone says "just because it's Sony blah blah blah" that has nothing to do with my opinion :nod: I just like the style of HDDVD.

Yakumo

 

exactly what i meant.

by the way, talking with hddvd supporters, many "biased" infos comes up... guess there are too much fan for both formats.