HD-DVD SINGS MY WAY

And now, the end is near; And so I face the final curtain...

So it was always the under-dog but HD-DVD has gave up the fight at long last. To tell the truth I'm surpirsed it lasted as long as it did, with very little studio backing it still managed to give us some great titles and In my opinion it was the best of the 2 formats (the other off course being Blu-Ray)

I was never a fan of Blu-Ray right from the off, I hate the name for a start, sure the discs were big and beefy but firmware problems, rubbish java and old school codecs made Blu-ray seem less than great.

HD-DVD on the other hand had a great name, it was High Def but it was also DVD, simple for even my gran to understand. The video codec was better and the extras were far better with pic in pic from the get-go and most important EVERY disc was region freee. Boo ya!

HD-DVD also cost far less to buy a player, I got my HD-DVD player for the xbox 360 for just over £110 with a free copy of King Kong, stunning picture quality and still one of the best HD discs I've seen on either format.

I'm sad to see HD-DVD lose because now Sony will up the price of both the players and the discs as competition will be non existent (until we have digital downloads that are quick and easy to get that is). There's also the fact that Blu-Ray just is not 100% ready yet, so unless you have a PS3 you might end up with discs that don't work when you get them home, also pretty much no region free. sure there's more than a few discs out there that ARE region free but not all like HD-DVD and as time goes by there will be less and less of those I bet.

I have very few HD-DVDs (over a year I've been buying HD), I did not want to invest in many because let's be honest, It never had a chance in hell of winning, but hey? It put up a pretty good fight and It gave me enough of a taste of stunning HD movies to keep me going for the next few years until everything settles down.

HD-DVD, you ill be missed..RIP

HD-DVD discs I have are -

Heroes season 1

Troy

Transformers (wow, amazing pic quality)

Mission impossible trilogy (this cost me £1..yep you read that correct, £1 :D)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Serenity (one of my fave movies and looks stunning in HD)

King Kong.

A long way off my 1200+ dvds and I'll stick with DVD for a long time to come.