Looks like its the end of the road for HD-DVD

[Shinjifei]

MAN... and I just got a toshiba laptop with a built in HD-DVD player... it was only 850...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6184567.html

[Mochan]

Me I'm gonna get myself an Asus EEE PC someday. For the price it's freaking fantastic and it's puny too. I love small notebooks, it's small enough to fit into my clutch *** bag.

[T.Tashi]

Me I'm gonna get myself an Asus EEE PC someday. For the price it's freaking fantastic and it's puny too. I love small notebooks, it's small enough to fit into my clutch *** bag.

I thought about getting one for the wife since they come in cute colors but she would need Windows. She's PC savvy but Linux would give her a hard time. I would want one with the 4 or 8GB drive but with the same money I can get a regular laptop I can upgrade. But it's still hard not to get one though. I would want it just to mess around with. If you get one anytime soon lemme know how you like it. I would prefer this instead of my Thinkpad for traveling.

[folken001]

i am not getting any hd drives until the burner is cheaper enough.

[Mochan]

You can install XP on the EEE PC, and from what I can tell Asus designed the EEE PC interface to be very easy to use. But anyway I will definitely bring along a big SD card with the thing 4GB of harddrive is not enough for putting videos and stuff.

[T.Tashi]

You can install XP on the EEE PC, and from what I can tell Asus designed the EEE PC interface to be very easy to use. But anyway I will definitely bring along a big SD card with the thing 4GB of harddrive is not enough for putting videos and stuff.

My only problem with XP is that I would prefer if it came preinstalled. I really don't wanna buy another copy of XP. Linux is perfectly fine for me tho. My wife has several hundred photos, music and video files. She spends hours customizing her friendster page with stuff. She'd be pretty limited with the size. But man I'm really fighting the impluse to buy this thing. I checked out some videos on youtube and yeah the interface is streamlined and well designed. Even with SD I would still have to back up most files to an external drive, but I already have a storage network at home. I would miss the optical drive.

Speaking of, hey Shinifei how much would it cost to swap that drive out for a bluray drive?

[Mochan]

Well Asus is releasing a new version of the EEE PC with XP pre-installed sometime later this year. This will add some to the price though (the reason Asus went with Linux in the first place was to lower cost). So in effect you do end up buying a new copy of XP.

As for backing stuff up, that is to be expected. The thing isn't meant to hold your entire media collection, just an on-the-go thing to keep you happy on the road. I would still keep all my stuff on a home PC and burnt onto disk. But oh man oh man I know what you mean I am so fighting the urge to buy one.

[T.Tashi]

Well Asus is releasing a new version of the EEE PC with XP pre-installed sometime later this year. This will add some to the price though (the reason Asus went with Linux in the first place was to lower cost). So in effect you do end up buying a new copy of XP.

As for backing stuff up, that is to be expected. The thing isn't meant to hold your entire media collection, just an on-the-go thing to keep you happy on the road. I would still keep all my stuff on a home PC and burnt onto disk. But oh man oh man I know what you mean I am so fighting the urge to buy one.

Well I decided to give my wife the option of what she wanted for Valentines Day. The Asus or a full fledged laptop. Usually I surprise her but I couldn't choose. Surprisingly, she chose the Asus. She said she liked it cause she can put it in her purse and she was fine with Linux. She was just concerned about her Chikka and Yahoo. I'm glad. That means I can get it for her as a gift while secretly wanting it for me. Muahaha.

[Mochan]

Mwahahha I do that with my GF too. I got her a really awesome MP3 player and portable speaker combo for Christmas and I've been using the speakers to my heart's content whenever we're together. :)

I'm not surprised she chose the Asus: it has that look that makes it appealing to women, and like me she seems to like the idea of putting it in her purse. It's so small it's awesome. I think the only laptop that is comparable in size is that new Vaio that's retailing for like $2000US.

I believe there's a Chikka for LInux, I am not 100% about Yahoo Messenger but I think it does, too.

[NEO-360]

Nothing will take the place of HD-DVD. Not by the hand of the overrated Blu-ray technology or anything else IMO. :aureola:

[Mochan]

Yeah, nobody's going to take that place. Last place. That belongs to HD-DVD.

[NEO-360]

Yeah, nobody's going to take that place. Last place. That belongs to HD-DVD.

Oh, thats why they are FORCING it down our throats. Because its truly winning us over. I see now.:rolleyes:

I heard Jim Jones makes good punch too. :yikes:

[ilnadmy]

Neo, Blu-ray is outselling HD-DVD. If you think that puts HD-DVD in first place then you really are a freaking retard.

[T.Tashi]

Neo, Blu-ray is outselling HD-DVD. If you think that puts HD-DVD in first place then you really are a freaking retard.

If you parrot TMG, that's what happens. Not you ilnadmy, but you who I mean. :p

Personally if Sony forced me to buy a bluray addon, then I would be pissed. Treating the bluray drive as a peripheral would've been a huge mistake. If the 360 had hddvd support out the box, (a next generation, higher capacity, higher resolution output format I might add) the format war would've been over a long time ago.

[Mochan]

Neo, you are the one who keeps harping over how sales makes you the best, you just did so again in the Resistance 2 thread, now here you are claiming HD DVD is ahead of Blueray yet Blueray is clearly outselling it -- and we're not just talking install-base of players like the Ps3 we are talking about actual disk sales. You truly are a worthless retard.

[ilnadmy]

Neo, you are the one who keeps harping over how sales makes you the best, you just did so again in the Resistance 2 thread, now here you are claiming HD DVD is ahead of Blueray yet Blueray is clearly outselling it

Neo, read that. Now read it again:

Neo, you are the one who keeps harping over how sales makes you the best, you just did so again in the Resistance 2 thread, now here you are claiming HD DVD is ahead of Blueray yet Blueray is clearly outselling it

Now read it a third time:

Neo, you are the one who keeps harping over how sales makes you the best, you just did so again in the Resistance 2 thread, now here you are claiming HD DVD is ahead of Blueray yet Blueray is clearly outselling it

Print it out and read it. I suggest not posting on this forum until you fully realize how absolutely idiotic you are.

[folken001]

now now now, people. Let's not be mad at Neo. Neo is like a monkey and we don't get mad at monkeys for not able to do 1 + 1, do we?

[theWacoKid]

The whole hd dvd thing was this close to winning is a joke. That WB was that close to going hd dvd exclusive. Forget about it.

Highest install base of high def optical players, bluray by a wide margin. The only geographic area where hd dvd was doing much of anything was NA.

Most hidef sotware sold, once again bluray, largely by a 2:1 margin for the past year. In europe, closer to 3:1.

Consumer choice, favored bluray heavily. Buy a ps3, sony standalone, panasonic, sharp, samsung. Hd dvd, buy a 1080i player from toshiba or cough up $100 more for a crap 1080p mid level machine. Or buy that overpriced hunk of crap 360 add on where you have zero chance of hearing any hi-end audio codec.

It wasn't the bluray studios that were ramming down my throat sd version of films onto the high def version, with those stupid combo discs, a number of which had playback problems. It wasn't the bluray studios downloading crap from the net when I put in a disc, freezing my system and then when I rebooted, the disc was no longer recognized by the add on. Oh, joy, hd dvd and bluray didn't have their act together?

[folken001]

i love how toshiba said ps3 didn't count as a blu-ray player and because of that, its hddvd players was dominating the market.