HD DVD: Buy, sell, or hold?

[KEEZY]

There is a CNET blog outlining the positives and negatives about what to do with HD DVD. He treats it very much like a stock market situation, which is interesting.

1. Hold - Keep what you have and hope that the war isn't over. Or just keep watching what you have until your HD DVD player goes bad.
2. Buy - Buy everything up when it get cheap. Low cost next-gen DVD! He suggests not paying more than $10 for a movie on a dying format.
3. Sell - Get rid of it while you can, and cut your losses. Trade or sell all of the HD DVD stuff, and buy Blu-ray.

Check out the full article here:
HD DVD: Buy, sell, or hold? - Fully Equipped - CNET reviews

What do you all think?

What happens when my HD DVD add-on craps out? It may take a while, but I still wonder.

[namehater]

i wouldnt think the money you would make buy selling out would be worth the effort really, might as well just sit back and let em rest on your shelf

[Crippler]

I'm holding on to mine. But I probably won't be buying any more HD discs. Unless they do hit $10. I can always get a Super Blue drive which will play both formats. No big deal then. Until Blu-ray changes specs again and forces new hardware purchases. Which is about every six months currently. It's like upgrading a video card. Hopefully one of those spec changes adds network functionality and adds updates. Gee, now I can see why peeps choose Bluray.


Did anyone else get a HDDVD software/FW update lately? I threw Happy Feet in and was prompted to download an update.

[Wondermonkey]

I haven't watched anything recently, so I'm not sure about the update.

I'm going to hold onto mine, and if the fire sale starts, buy up HD-DVDs on the cheap.

[KEEZY]

I'm sure I won't be able to help myself when good movies come out on HDDVD (Like American Gangster).

[dmiller68]

I have stop buying new ones... Unless something I really want comes out. I'll hang on to movies and watch them until the addon dies. When the add-on drops to $50 in the next couple months I'll buy a second one as backup. Heck I still bought laserdisk for a year after DVD came out and was dominating the market.

The war is over and I've moved on... Just waiting for the rest of the world to wake up.

[Quo]

Hey! I know that guy!

[KEEZY]

LOL I love it!

Hopefully my drive lasts a while. By then, I can rebuy the 10-15 movies I have on HDDVD.

[BiffCo]

Best Buy is having a BOGO sale on select HD-DVDs this week. You can find what they are selling with the BOGO here.

I was in BB yesterday and found that while these are some great movies, I'm pretty much refusing to buy into a dead format. I know, a lot of people are saying "you're movies will still work," but the fact is that working players won't always be around. I'm certainly not going to buy a $150 player for a dead format.

Some people have mentioned dual format players. I don't know if this will ever happen. They will need to be cheap for consumers to be into them. Look how horrible the numbers are on LG's super-blue multi drive player. Prices will need to be between $200-$300 if they want to be competitive.

It's a tough call, Keezy. It really boils down to how you feel about the war and all. My personal feeling is that Bluray has won, and I see no reason to support HD-DVD anymore. Eventually, Universal and Paramount/Dreamworks will go Blu. It's only a matter of time.

-Brad

[Crippler]

I'm holding on to the idea that the online petition will work (thousands have signed) and MS/Toshiba will throw more cash at the studios than Sony did. Swing everything to HDDVD. Except Sony Pictures of course.

I find it hilarious that I actually see way more HDDVD commercials now than I ever did before CES. Way to go Toshiba. Crank up the ads when this whole format thing is basically lost already. If ya would have did that a yr ago, maybe things would be WAY different now. Because, they do a way better job of selling HDDVD than what I have seen for Bluray.