Some competition is good for the market and consumers. If the high def market got blu ray aje, it will be like one ring rules all. Competition will result in better products which are competitively priced, it's like XBOX 360 versus PS3, when they try to outdo each other, we stand to gain what, isn't it?

For me, I stay neutral since my favourite movies are on both formats so I got nothing to say.

It will end up like dvd-audio and sacd, like burger king and mcdonalds, like french fries and onion rings

It should be more like they want every home to have a hd-dvd player, which plays all your dvds and the new hd-dvds at an affordable price.

Sadly no, guess we have to wait for Toshiba Malaysia to bring the latest model here. I still prefer getting a local model if the price is right and I'm not bothered whether blu-ray wins or not as I'm neutral, I support both formats as long as the players are affordable and have no playback problems, it's fine with me.

Can I tumpang order for these three hd-dvd movies below? Hope you don't mind.

2 Fast 2 Furious $14.99
Top Gun $14.99
Face Off $18.49

Any pics of your hd-dvd titles? Nothing personal but since you just joined this forum, just needed some assurance that this is a genuine deal. No offence.

Planning to sell your HD-DVD The Frighteners? Is that still available?

Agree with Bro Arj, those are 'AAA' titles and it's a bargain to those who has just joined the hd-dvd bandwagon. Come to think of it, it's a lot cheaper buying an original region 1 dvd last time.

Well, you don't really need to buy a PS3 to watch high def, standard dvds are good enough unless you have all the equipment to enjoy the high def experience. I've seen people buying a PS3 and watch blu-rays on a standard definition CRT tv. That's pure waste of money.

HD-DVD might be on life support but it's just rumours, it might not be true that Toshiba is giving up for good.

Guys, please don't go here. Lets stick back to the topic. Shouldn't we be discussing what's the impact on hd-dvd softwares when Toshiba announced that they're going to pull out. Will this affect the fate of the upcoming Samsung blu-ray / hd-dvd combo players and what about existing hd-dvd softwares, will they vanish after they're all sold at half price or less.

I just ordered a couple of HD-DVD movies recently but what the heck, I'll keep them, not planning to sell them away including the XBOX 360 HD-DVD add on drive. Can show them one day to my grandchildren how HD-DVD looks like. It will be a collector's item like laserdiscs. My friend has kept his RM4,000 plus Pioneer Elite Laserdisc player until now and his personal collection, about 200 titles. He bought them at RM15 each from a former laserdisc rental shop. How nice if HD-DVD titles are around that price, I wouldn't mind buying them since HD-DVD PQ and SQ are both comparable to Blu-Ray, it ain't the inferior format here despite the limited disc space.

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I'm also on the lookout for one as well. At dirt cheap price, it doesn't really matter whether the format is still alive or not but there are enough existing hd-dvd movies to keep me occupied and if Amazon sells them all at 50% or less, it's worth getting them compared to those original dvds sold at Speedy.

Anyway, anyone who wants to sell his hd-dvd titles, you may contact me personal via PM and if I'm interested in any of the titles, I'll be interested to buy them from you. Just sapu-ed a couple of hd-dvd titles from my friends, they hit the panic button and sold everything away, crossing over to the blu-ray side. Me still neutral lah, even with blu-ray only, they haven't won the war yet unless they have a sizeable market to crush dvds first and don't forget most of the special editions, extended cuts or unrated versions are only out on standard dvds. You don't get Pearl Harbor Director's Cut on blu-ray, you certainly don't get King Kong Extended Version on hd-dvd either but only on standard dvds.

Well, have changed my mind, since I'm getting a Yamaha RX-V1800 AV amp, it has the same Anchor Bay upscaling chip as the Toshiba HD-A35 so I guess I don't need to buy a hd-dvd player, can use the amp for this purpose. Don't get me wrong, I'm still keeping my hd-dvd collection. Don't forget that Universal and Paramount didn't say they will join the blu-ray camp yet and they could still release movies for this format since there's a substantial market base. Remember Dreamcast, when Sega decided to call it quits, there were still games for it till last year. Anything is possible.

Spill the beans my friend, let us know what you wanna sell.

Maybe that amount doesn't include XBOX 360's HD-DVD Add On accessory. Just a wild guess.

Thanks bro, got your PM. That was fast. So, if in the future, you're going to place any order with Amazon, do let me know ya. I'm still interested to sapu those hd-dvd titles at half price. It's a good deal. It may be officially dead but it doesn't matter to me especially if they're all dirt cheap.

Not really, the upcoming Sony BDP-S350 is only USD400 and it's a profile 2.0 ready player and it bitstreams DTS-HD MA, something the PS3 couldn't do but it's a gaming console, what to expect, right?


True also lah, still got combo players from Samsung and LG to cater for hd-dvd movie fans

Well, BD-S350 doesn't decode DTS-HD MA internally but it can output via bitstream so if you have a next gen amp, that's not an issue at all.

You better buy BD-S350 lah, forget the A35 unless you got a lot of hd-dvd titles at home. Anyway, your favourite GGW is only on BD.

Yup, USD30 for the whole Trilogy on HD-DVD is cheaper than buying all three from Speedy on standard dvds.