How many people feel ripped off with regular DVD now that HD-DVD is out?

Question

Once agin...I feel ripped off by the electronics industry!! Why not just come out with HD-DVD originally? I give up....

Answer 1

It isn't out OUT yet, it's not available widely as yet and the Disc for them aren't readily available as yet.

The thing is that it won't really take off that well in the consumer market.

I mean how old of a technology are CD's and they still make music on CD's instead of DVD's.... sooo why?

There's no need to shift because it is pretty much perfected and since technology is driven by society, society won't exactly adapt to listening to music on DVD's even though this technology was is about 8 years old now.

The same thing will happen with video DVD's... there isn't really much of a need to convert to a higher quality medium since most of us are still using analogue CRT TV's... i mean what's the point we aren't going to get that much of a difference in video quality, let alone the available resolutions on computers and consumer LCD/Plasma TV's.

You gotta think about is one technology worth changing a whole society for??

I don't think so.

The only area HD-DVD will thrive is domestically, not commercially (adapting to the standards of recording artists standards)

Answer 2

that's like saying who feels ripped off by VHS now DVD is out.
the short answer is the technology has only just become advanced enough to allow HD-DVD.
remember before we had DVD there was the laser disc the 12 or more inch disc that looks like a dinner-plate sized CD?
well the technology was in that case not good enough to compress the data of one film down to anything smaller at the time.
it is a combination of new software and hardware technologies that have enabled the new HD-DVD to become available.

as we all know technology moves at an alarming rate. but it takes a long time to get what works in a lab to the market.
I'm guessing that you are a young teenager or at least under 20 years of age, so will not remember much of what i have said but anyone my age and above will know what i mean.
like when a hard drive for a computer was about twice the size they are now but there was a time when a half gigabyte was the largest drive available.
now the largest commercial drive i have seen at dabs.com is 500GB. soon that will be surpassed as new chip technology has become available, basically a hard wired flash drive inside the computer with no movable parts, currently though these chips are only extremely small and are of no commercial value to a desktop computer, so it will be a few years away before we have them in our computer. or so I'm led to believe from the technology reports in the news.

Answer 3

High Density Digital Versatile Disc or High Definition Digital Video Disc) is a digital optical media format which can hold high definition video or other data. HD DVD is similar to the competing Blu-ray Disc.

HD DVD is promoted by major player such as Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, Microsoft, and Intel. Where as Blu-ray is sponser by Sony.

Answer 4

get used to it. Consider Audio

Records
to
Reel to Reel
to
8 track (though records sound better they are not portable)
to
cassettes (same as 8track)
to
Cd's (i don't consider i-pods or mp3 stuff, it sounds like cr@p, a HUGE step backwards, while Cd's are portable.)

video will be the same
VHS
to
DVD
to
HD DVD or Blue Ray
to
?
to
?

it never ends

Answer 5

The cheapest player is still up around 500$ and two competing formats still need to iron out as to who will reign - time to wait

Answer 6

what is an HD DVD?