After Blu-ray won out I had a blast buying up HD-DVDs for pennies on the dollar. I bought my player for $12 at the flea market and would buy movies for a couple bucks a piece. Didn't even have an HDTV back then, but they were cheaper than buying regular DVDs. Always pays off being a late adopter.

@TheBikemaster94

5 жыл бұрын

I still buy lots of standard DVDS of good movies on egays, lots of sellers offer discounts if you buy in more than 2. I know I can download in higher quality but some files become corrupted and have pixelated scenes , perhaps it's my equipment . The DVD has special/bonus content and overall happy with it , I still use 1080p resolution on a PS3. The best Iconic movies I usually buy blue ray, hopefully after 2020 I'll have a 4ktv but my current setup works well 1080p w/ 5.1 Dolby.

@moladiver6817

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheBikemaster94 DVD though uses horrible PAL or NTSC interlaced video. I much rather download SD quality of a HD master. Then you get a much bigger color range as well as full frames. I personally haven't used DVD since the year 2001 when I got my first broadband internet connection at home. Never used a physical image or audio carrier since. You can imagine how long I had to wait for legal channels to fill my needs. ;)

@ZachAttackIsBack

5 жыл бұрын

You weren't a late adopter. You were a post-mortem adopter.

@darksidelead

5 жыл бұрын

>buying movies

@amigaamigo5307

5 жыл бұрын

Me too got mine for £20 with 20 films now own about 100 films paid nothing.

I miss the floating DVD logo.

@Tricus

3 жыл бұрын

@@T.E.Pictures Just nostalgia :)

once Disney went blu-ray the war was already over

@toxin1882

6 жыл бұрын

Lewis Filby lol true .. disney owns a ton of shit

@beyondyouandme

6 жыл бұрын

Carter Baker this was the last format war. Not the vhs vs beta.

@thepoliticalstartrek

6 жыл бұрын

sentury111 When you say last and you are talking about the one before the one you are talking about.

@bluedragon9925

6 жыл бұрын

The PS3 having a Blu-Ray drive built in (while the Xbox 360 only had a regular DVD drive and required you to buy a separate add-on to play HD-DVDs) definitely helped as well. For most consumers, convenience always wins when it comes to home video formats. That's why VHS won over Betamax and why Laserdisc was only popular enough to have a small niche market share before being completely phased out by DVD.

@trenzinhodaalegria8012

6 жыл бұрын

Not to mention Blu-Ray is slightly better with a higher data density than HDDVD. Blu-Ray nowadays serves as a great optical backup standard for corporations. Nowadays consumers want everything from the cloud and no more physical media at home. But the corporations that maintain the clouds do need physical storage and HDDs are not exactly the most reliable. Optical Discs are right now the most used long-term storage in the world, HDDs are used in cache servers to help deliver the data to consumers but the permanent data is usually stored either in optical discs or tapes. Such tapes have a lifespan of 25 years and the archival grade optical discs usually have a lifespan of 60 years. There is however the M-Disc which lasts for centuries (1000 years) but it's still a very expensive type of disc.

Almost a billion dollars?!?! Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn that must have been harsh.

@ScooterinAB

6 жыл бұрын

I know, right? Can you imagine the corporate seppuku the person responsible for that decision had to make. "Sorry guys. We backed the wrong horse, and it kinda sort cost us a billion dollars."

@jahjoeka

6 жыл бұрын

They could just write it off their taxes.

@Thebossstage1

5 жыл бұрын

@@stoneold Nah Blu ray still exists, movies are still coming out for it.

@Thebossstage1

5 жыл бұрын

@Banana Pie You don't technically own digital copies

@markofexcellence5209

5 жыл бұрын

*YOURE FIRED*

I didn't even know HD-DVD was a thing until years after the format war ended. That's how badly it tanked.

@Fireglo

6 жыл бұрын

Even worse there was even a HD VHS XD

@mattwolf7698

6 жыл бұрын

Same goes for me, once I rented some older DVD that had a HD-DVD commerical on it, that was literally the only commerical I ever for it that I can remember at least.

@joseherrera8489

6 жыл бұрын

@Equestrian Idiot: I think you're just too young to remember. Most regular people back then didn't even know either of these formats existed. HDTVs still weren't that widespread. A 15" LCD was still around $500.

@coydog7902

6 жыл бұрын

DVHS aka D-THEATER

@ChucksSEADnDEAD

5 жыл бұрын

I knew about it because I read a lot of tech and gaming magazines so I "witnessed" the format wars while in the real world nobody was buying or selling hd dvd anywhere. Pretty much the only mention to hddvd I heard on mainstream media was a joke in Tropic Thunder.

It's also worth noting that the PS3 cost the same as a regular blue ray or HD DVD player at launch. I have a feeling Sony did this to encourage more ps3 adoption. Why get a regular player when you can grab a high end gaming console for the same price?

@jesuszamora6949

6 жыл бұрын

Brent R Naw, bro, the BD was VERY new tech, and thus pricey. Sony wouldn't have charged $600 for the PS3 if they could have gone cheaper, and they'd feel it in the coming years as they struggled to bring the PS3 back from the 360's shadow. They essentially sacrificed the 7th generation of gaming for a stake in the home movie hardware market.

@pavy415

6 жыл бұрын

Low end gaming system

@KylesDigitalLab

6 жыл бұрын

They did this with the PS2 also.

@blacbraun

5 жыл бұрын

Just like now an Xbox one S costs little more (or the same) as an Ultra HD Player

@blacbraun

5 жыл бұрын

@@KylesDigitalLab PS2 only played DVD's not Blu Ray

Bill Gates wasn't wrong, you know. Playing Blu-ray movies on PC is still a big pain in the ass and software on Blu-ray is practically non existent. I guess you could say that the decline of physical media is more to blame for that, but I'd say that Blu-ray is to blame for the decline of physical media on PC.

@retrosoul8770

6 жыл бұрын

What is it about blue ray that makes it incompatible with pcs?

@alaskanhybridgaming

6 жыл бұрын

Retro Soul windows 10 will not read blu-ray without extra software.

@RobertK1993

5 жыл бұрын

brickman409 Bill was being bitter that Sony format was better and won.

@RobertK1993

5 жыл бұрын

alaskanhybrid Microsoft being sore losers.

@luxembourger

5 жыл бұрын

@@RobertK1993 I only still use Microsoft Windows in the Office. But that is still a huge market.

Sony was like "We already lost one format war with our Betamax, you can bet your ass we're not gonna lose another one."

2:56 'The blu-ray association disregarded the suggestion, and negotiations came to a close.' 'The negotiations were short.'

As of today, Ultra HD Blu-ray is the new generation of home entertainent.

The ps3 was still cheaper than most stand-alone Blu-ray players back then

One funny thing is that toshiba was the first to introduce internet features to HD Discs. They introduced web features to their HD DVDs where you could download new features and play games, and I think this was the only time I could think of that Blu Ray jumped on the Bandwagon and took advantage of their win, cause they introduced BD Live about a year after HD DVD's abandonment, and it worked pretty much exactly how the HD DVD web features worked xD

@Yatukih_001

7 жыл бұрын

Ok Creepenator!!

@Browningate

6 жыл бұрын

It was all for nothing though. None of those features work anymore. I tried.

VHS was *_far_* from being 480p

@martineyles

6 жыл бұрын

Danny C. Although one of the unpopular tape formats after DVD and before this format war was D-VHS (also branded D-Theatre for movie releases), fully capable of 1080i high definition.

@emmittmorgans8076

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is obviously not what the video is referring to. The word "analog" was used, whereas D-VHS used digital encoding on VHS tape for its content. In any case, 480p is not a format available on a VHS tape in its native formatting.

@paianis

6 жыл бұрын

VHS was 480/576i with reduced horizontal resolution.

@Fireglo

6 жыл бұрын

Depends on how old the tape is.

@user-ny5vp9be8v

6 жыл бұрын

Paianni No, 240p. S VHS is 480i.

If the Xbox 360 used HD DVDs instead of DVDs, things might have been different.

@Jorge-E

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, HD DVD was a very good format, if Microsoft had chosen, games like Metal Gear Solid 4 would have been released on the 360...

@halo3odst

5 жыл бұрын

That is a pipe dream, the hardware specs of the xbox 360 were finalized a few years before HD-DVD was introduced, and it would only serve to make the system more expensive while still using the inferior format.

@AldoAraujo85

5 жыл бұрын

@@RouteRoad I'm pretty sure he meant as in Xbox 360 GAMES themselves using HD-DVD

@Dash120z

4 жыл бұрын

It's kinda crazy that the 360 uses regular DVD's for it's optical media..

I think the PS3 supporting Blu-Ray was a major leg up the format had over HD.

I had wished that HD-DVD had won out JUST to keep the nomenclature simple, LOL!

I basically refused to get involved in the format war and stuck to DVDs. Honestly, having grown up on VHS tapes, they still seem like a huge improvement. By the time the war was over, streaming was already becoming popular. I only have one Blu-Ray disc that I got last year, because I wanted to watch a movie that I couldn't legally stream from anywhere.

@steeltalon8194

6 жыл бұрын

Same here, went from DVDs straight to online streaming. BluRay players didn't ever became prevalent in computers. Even my just 2yr old high performance laptop only have DVD RW player. Guess it is simply not needed anymore. Some PCs today come out completely without optical drives!

@ShinyElGhosteo

6 жыл бұрын

not sure if either of you still buy DVDs but when played in an actual DVD player connected to a TV they still aren't that bad. Idk if it's the DVD player or the TV but these newer DVDs look better than they used to.

@dguy0386

Жыл бұрын

my family stuck to DVDs and VHS tapes at the time, though we bought our first Blu-Ray player in 2017 and use them fairly regularly now along side DVD, VHS and streaming services

But the REAL winner is...DVD. Not HD-DVD, just DVD. They're still going strong and still popular, just like VHS was for decades after its time. And the day DVDs completely disappear is the same time Blu-Rays disappear.

@martineyles

6 жыл бұрын

Damian Freeman It's frustrating to see supermarkets and other physical stores still stocking more DVD titles than Bluray titles. Also frustrating to see Parks and Recreation only available on DVD, when it was produced in 1080i, making it ideal for a Bluray release.

@MrJoeyWheeler

6 жыл бұрын

I disagree. DVD is simply more popular and much more easily accessible to people. I wouldn't have it any other way, myself.

@fargeeks

6 жыл бұрын

my DVD drive keeps wobbling my disks and turns out the center plastic spindle is loose enough to be easily pull out from the motor shaft

@bobtom1495

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty much...and if you need to save some money...it's still a cheaper option to buy a DVD than a blu-ray..not only to mention some place where I go, it doesn't even support blu-ray and only regular DVD...

@RobertK1993

5 жыл бұрын

4k Ultra HD Blu ray is here.

I still see DVDs in stores. More so than blu ray. How come?

@kirby1fan

6 жыл бұрын

old biggots who refuse to upgrade...also it is cheap to still make normal dvds still and compatibility is phenomenal, so why not.

@CoWinkKeyDinkInc

6 жыл бұрын

The real answer is that people usually want to spend little money as possible, and when you consider that companies still have the balls to charge more for HD when Blu-Rays have become just as cheap to produce as DVDs have, it's no surprise that people are still interested in DVDs.

@steeltalon8194

6 жыл бұрын

Cause most of ppl that still use optical media to watch films only have a computer with common DVD drive & nothing else so demand for DVDs is higher. Rest of us already switched to streaming services like Netflix & HBO GO (& even KZread). Days of optical media are numbered.

@ryansamarakoon8268

6 жыл бұрын

DvD and Hd DVD are different

@ej_tech

6 жыл бұрын

Many computers (at least for the ones that still feature one) have a DVD drive. Also DVD players are cheap. Like $30 cheap.

This is really well produced!

An evolution of HD-DVD eventually found a home in the PROC with the China Blue High-Definition Disc.

@gafeht

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting

Actually... VHS counts more as 240p (360p maximum) if converted to digital resolution. VHS is never 480p Maybe S-VHS or D-VHS (which are both also 576p). And DVD too can be both 480p and 576p.

My dad decided to wait for the format wars to be over to know what format to switch to. Obviously, it was Blu-Ray. He also was to get a PS3, but got an Xbox 360 and Blu-Ray player separately. I finally got a PS3 (well, my brother did) in 2016.

@LordMarlle

6 жыл бұрын

If he didn't get the red ring of death (and it didn't turn into a freaking hurricane of noise) your father won. A ps3 in 2016 ? What for? MGS4 xD

@Robowil

6 жыл бұрын

It did get loud over the years, but it never got the RRoD. The reason my brother got a PS3 in 2016 is because some of the games we wanted weren't on PS4, like Sonic Generations, Brutal Legend, etc.

Nice Format, layout and Style, Have a Happy New Year and I am looking forward to some more of your new Content! Cheers Peter Mc :)

am i the only one that still likes hd-dvd movies. i have a large collection of them, and honestly i wouldn't get rid of them for anything.

Your videos are really good, interesting that you have this few subscribers!

This was a good and informative video. Thanks for posting this.

I really loved the features on HD-DVD. They would enable you to remix movies or do all sorts of picture-in-picture features due to every player having multiple decoders in them.

My main memory of HD DVD was from 2008, when I saw an ad for the home video release of the 2007 Transformers movie, which mentioned that it was available on DVD and HD DVD. That's the only real memory I have of HD DVD. Also, it doesn't remotely surprise me that the PS3 thing had a say in that. I remember that my parents bought a PS3 specifically because it could play blu-rays.

Y'all remember that regular show episode where they literally turned the format wars into a real story

I have both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD Players and titles common to both. I find the HD-DVD are a bit nicer and they load faster.

@halo3odst

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe so, but at least my WB manufactured blu rays work.

@nrg16108

3 жыл бұрын

@@halo3odst we have a stack of Big name HdDvds that wont load-just coasters.

I heard that the porn industry choosing blurays also had a play in this

@Kara_Kay_Eschel

6 жыл бұрын

Same for VHS.

@paianis

6 жыл бұрын

The porn industry actually chose HD-DVD.

@kingjames4886

6 жыл бұрын

I'd believe it...

@atomicdancer

6 жыл бұрын

I heard that the porn industry backed Donald Trump over Hilary Clinton, and that's why he won the US presidency.

@SAM-ru4vx

6 жыл бұрын

ever watch porn in 2K?

At end..what bluray works on DVD player

There was also a push to include a SD DVD title on one side of a disc and then the High Definition version on the flip side. Marketing wise it was used to build your movie library for both formats without having to buy new discs for the same titles. When the customer was ready all they need do is buy the new playback unit.There were some efforts by manufacturers of players to make hybrid units to play both formats. But their arrival came too late to make a difference. S-VHS was closest to 480 in terms of resolution. Funny how D-VHS was a standard for use with early HD TVs.

5:50 Don't forget 4K Blu-Rays require a 4K BLU RAY PLAYER. 4K Blu rays wo t play on a normal Bluray player.

@sammexp

5 жыл бұрын

And a 4k tv too, which makes this technology pretty expensive and useless

Loved the content what's that ending music??

It's actually kinda sad. If the two camps HAD compromised, HD optical discs would have been adopted far quicker, perhaps as fast as DVD had been adopted. Hopefully the inevitable successor is a smooth ride, because I'd hate petty differences to hold back another potentially breakthrough storage medium.

please make a video about Toshiba the history of the company history of their computer division and Where are they now

Hey, may I ask a question? What do you use for downloading videos? Regards, some random dude on the web

I have about 40 HD DVDs. Are they collectable????

I vividly remember this war. It was quite an amusing thing to follow back in ~2005-2006.

I still watch and enjoy my HD-DVDs.

"the thinner the wavelength" It's shorter, not thinner.

I backed HD-DVD because it was cheaper and inferior. I figured the war would go the same way that the VHS vs Beta and Vinyl vs Reel to Reel went. Every time, the inferior, but cheaper, tech won out. BluRay was basically a complete shock to me. I would have been happily surprised to see the technically better format win...except I bought an HD-DVD player. I was a bit sore about this at the time...because I had done my homework and a lot of research...only to be completely wrong and lose like $300 on my player + discs that were worthless just a year and a half or so later. At least when I bought my Vita, I considered it to be a real risk...

5:03 the thing that annoys me about Disney is the fact they brand Disney Blu Ray as if it owned that format.

Now, 4K blu-ray is crispy and very sharp on certain movies like Blade Runner, Tenet, Alien! HD DVD was like Wii U, it was confusing to some People! Now 4k scanned blu-rays have better quality than HD DVDs!

As far as I remember it, when HD-DVD had only 20gb capacity, blue-Ray already had 50... So that may have been a major reason as well

0:50 - Hold on there. VHS is most definitely *not* 480p. It's barely even 480i!

what were the blue discs the PlayStation 2 used that broke older ps2's?

@PonderingGhost

6 жыл бұрын

jay can Those were called PlayStation Blue Discs which were CD-Rom rather than DVD-Rom.

@fargeeks

6 жыл бұрын

yup. literally just a game with only 700MBs on it so either the game looked great but less content, or crappy graphics with a little more content the games with a CD format was labeled as Greatest Hits

@charlescampuz5812

6 жыл бұрын

fargeeks Or the game was small enough to fit on the cheaper CD format? You know very few games actually take up the entire storage capacity of discs, right?

what bluray disc can be played on a dvd player

We need a format wars episode 2

Thank you for this!

What is the music in the background called?

Anyone thought of regular show

Still have my hddvd player and over 20 movies. I still remember bestbuy selling both formats

It's 2020 and my family still doesn't have a Blu-Ray player. Hell, we don't even have a DVD player other than the one in my laptop.

6:00 Double sided OR double-layer, right?

how does Blu-ray stack up to digital downloads?

VHS was 480p? Damn, I thought those things were interlaced NTSC or PAL.

VHS stores 240i video, the other tape formats of the time such as Beta and HDCAM were studio formats for internal editing/production. One thing that is never mentioned in these "Blu-ray vs HD DVD" videos is that the porn industry (Yeah, the freaking porn industry) was mainly the reason for the failure of HD DVD.

@paianis

6 жыл бұрын

VHS did 480i/576i with reduced horizontal resolution.

@kirby1fan

6 жыл бұрын

the porn industry went with hddvd not bluray. hddvd had cheaper royalties so they went with them.

6 жыл бұрын

But only S-VHS, that never took off

Towards the middle of the video you mentioned Blu-ray had more/ better features than hd dvd but you didn't mention them. You didn't mention that bluray had nearly double the storage space when both disc formats came out. Another thing to point out was that Microsoft's video file format was more efficient than the one Blu-ray used.

I remember seeing HDDVD in stores but I feel like they where only there for like a month or two. It was a short war, lol.

You forgot to mention that Blu Ray is still region locked and HD DVD was not. That would have hampered the iron grip studios have in what they release, when and how. That was a big factor as well.

@thatguyontheright1

6 жыл бұрын

The majority of films in my BD collection have no such region locking...aside from Disney. It's up to the publisher.

@christophercoates9

6 жыл бұрын

TGOTR - all of mine are region locked to A or region 1 and they are all different studios from Disney (they are region locked to A,B,C) to Lionsgate to 20th Century Fox. The only ones that are not in my BD collection it seems is Paramount, Well Go USA and Warner Bros.

@christophercoates9

6 жыл бұрын

Raul Zavala no one would be pirating movies with an HD DVD player. It's region free which means I could buy movies that were legally made in France and watch them over here. No one ever even mentioned pirating.

@NicklasZandeVGCP2001

5 жыл бұрын

Blu Rays are region free.

I've always been curious about what an HD-DVD movie looks like compared to a BD movie. Is the picture quality better?

@dericjames2018

6 жыл бұрын

gedaman it's the same.

@calvinkulit

6 жыл бұрын

Deric James They aren’t the same resolution. HD DVD: 720p BD: 1080p

I've honestly never used an HD DVD, but I've learned things about it!

Great video! hello from a new subscriber!

Now, it appears that the war is between digital streaming vs blu-ray.

There were other commercial HD formats before HD-DVD and Blu-ray but they were enormously expensive. HD-DVD and Blu-ray were the first affordable HD formats.

@martineyles

6 жыл бұрын

TGOTR one of those HD formats was actually VHS! There's a video by Techmoan about it.

@thatguyontheright1

6 жыл бұрын

Another was Hi-Vision, which was HD video on a laserdisc.

I remember seeing HD DVDs at the flea market and thinking they were bootleg Blu Rays

Why I'm watching this?? I even don't have any optical disk player.. including my current laptop

@GlobalGaming101

6 жыл бұрын

Athaariq Ardiansyah probably because it's interesting:)

@miguelzavaleta1911

6 жыл бұрын

Athaariq Ardiansyah I honestly cannot recall when was the last time I used optical media myself. Who even buys or rents movies in physical format anymore when there's KZread and Amazon?

@steven834631

6 жыл бұрын

Miguel Zavaleta I do. I just returned a rental DVD not one hour ago, Bela Tarr's "Family Nest". Try finding that on Netflix or any other digital service.

@koloth5139

6 жыл бұрын

I still buy Blu-rays of movies I want in my collection. It is nice not to have to rely on the internet for all of my entertainment. The Blu-ray player in my bedroom isn't wireless and I don't feel like running a cable in there. And occasionally the network goes down. Plus the streaming services don't have everything.

@KangJangkrik

6 жыл бұрын

John McDonald don't have everything like what?

Blu-ray is now considered failed tech. It's been 13 years and DVDs still sell better. Optical is just old tech.

What is the background music?

wait a minute the hddvd was just an add-on to the Xbox 360? then what the hell were the formats the games used then?? now in confused

WAIT round pegs are now discontinued? THEY WERE MY FAVORITE *P E G*

I these random videos in my Recommended section, click on it and get addicted (maybe exaggerating) to this channel.

Back when both of these formats were first available, I predicted that people would look back on this time as a war between HD DVD and Blu Ray. I got pooh-pooh'd, and yet here we are. I feel validated.

Swear to god I've never heard of HD-DVD until this video :/

I remember the format war very well. At the time, I graduated from middle school and the new High Definition home video formats made their debut. Growing up with VHS and DVD, I look at the HD DVD and Blu-ray and I was on the HD DVD side (I later bought the HD DVD drive for Xbox 360) because I thought HD DVD is better. Sadly, Blu-ray won despite I bought some HD DVD films from 2007-2016 (Goodfellas, Unforgiven, The Fast and the Furious, Transformers (2007), 300, Batman Begins, Darkman, just to name a few). However, I did bought a PlayStation 3 (which does play Blu-rays) in 2010 and later a PlayStation 4 in 2015. My uncle gave me his Blu-ray/DVD Home Theatre System in the Summer of 2017. Since then, I started buying Blu-ray films (beginning with The Thin Red Line on Christmas Day 2016).

I remember when HD DVD was a thing. I used to see the advertisements. Ironically enough, I say the advertisements in... DVDs xD It was the greatest thing ever. They would have a "before and after" section of the commercial during the previews on the DVD. And me and my father both made jokes about it. Trying to show standard DVD quality compared to HD DVD quality.... on a DVD. Needless to say, there was no difference. Granted, it's possible it might've been made for an HD DVD but the company in charge just put the advertisements on both mediums. But it was still funny as hell. Lol

In China, HD DVD continues to be produced for those thin plastic sleeves where those unlicensed movies come in. As far as I know, the only laptops that came with HD DVD were the Acer Aspire 9800/9920g series, Toshiba Qosmio G30 series, and the Toshiba Satellite x200 series.

huh, i was born during the format wars

What was the background song name

VHS was *not* 480p, it was 480i (576i in PAL countries) - it never supported progressive video. If you want to reflect the actual number of lines of resolution it produced, it was nearer 240i.

Durp

@rhinofromthevoid9904

6 жыл бұрын

Loki Blanding I've never seen a blueray in person lol

@chickpea

6 жыл бұрын

bnko same the closest that I got was seeing a ps4

@FloppyDisk893

6 жыл бұрын

Wow, i have a PS4 + a Blu-Ray player...

@User-ge7ni

6 жыл бұрын

Loki Blanding yh because it's cheap

@WH250398

6 жыл бұрын

If you have a sound system and an hd tv you will not buy a single dvd anymore. Blurays are much better. (and lots of them have the ability to skip ads and immediately start the movie!)

hd-dvd should return as red-ray

RIP. I worked at best buy during this war. I personally stood behind HDDVD merely because of the titles that I was interested in at that time, and I had an xBox360 with the HDDVD attachment!!!!!!

That blu-ray player in the PS3 is how my dad convinced my mom to get it.

Here in my country we were happy using DVD well into the 2000s, until Netflix and streaming media in general came along and killed it. Blu-ray was never a thing.

I remember going to blockbuster as a kid right in the middle of the format war between HD DVD and Bluray. And I remember seeing both formats on the same wall and thinking to myself how the HD DVD looks evil because of the red case, and the Bluray looks nicer.

Seems to be a common myth with Americans that widescreen requires a significant technological change to be introduced, such as digital TV or Blu-ray. DVDs can store anamorphic widescreen video in 16:9 format. It's not HD, but that's a different issue.

I was hoping to have the differences between the two formats explained, as Techmoan or Technology Connections would have done.

As the 90s came to an end? Where were you living. It wasn't until the late 2000s when they even started becoming normal in every household

@ultraboombean

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember DVDs taking a while to be phased out. I think I was at least in 4th or 5th grade and that was like...2002 or so. But I also didn't really have the internet til the early to mid 2000s in my house either.

@renegadejuggalo

6 жыл бұрын

They did have HDTV's back then, but they were ridiculously expensive. I remember when my dad bought his first HDTV back in mid 2000. He paid about 4000$ for it.

Good stuff man.

you desrve way more subs dude!

I'd argue that without HDDVD telling people that these are HD videos now then neither would catch on.

Now 4K Digital will replace physical disk, anyone else miss the Video store?

Um HDCAM was a tape format used in early HD Broadcast and cine cameras. It was far from a consumer tape.

I still have mini discs and a MD recorder.

It certainly doesn't help the DVDs that they put more bonus features such as deleted scenes, backstories about the making of the film and interviews with the actors or producers on the Blu-Ray and leaving it out of the DVD edition. So if you want more than just the movie, you'd go for the Blu-Ray, however if you're happy with just having the movie with no bonus features, well the DVD edition IS cheaper....

@fargeeks

6 жыл бұрын

Carlin Rackley you forgot to mention DVD ROM content

I work at a local music store that also sells books and dvds. We also purchase used dvds, cds, books and video games from customers. Recently a customer came in wanting to sell and HD DVD Matrix box set. Keep in mind I was born in 1999 and had never heard of HD DVD. In the end, I bought the box set only for my boss to get frustrated and explain Blu Ray vs HD DVD and how HD DVD was never much of a big thing to me. I think I made her feel pretty old at 25.