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allenwrench
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Post subject: Re: Conspiracy theory? Posted: 12 Feb 2017, 05:59 |
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Half of them are WBs a couple of Paramounts and several inports manufacturer unknown. As of yet no mint-o-matic fo HD-DVDs. If you were Walmart and people were returning just the WBs discs over and over again, it would have taken long for you to want to pull the plug, especially when the blu-rays seem to have been just fine. Of course the flip side of all this is not all HD-DVDs are bad, at least not yet, and they can be had pretty cheaply. Bought a lot of 40 today for not so much.
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dumbchemist
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Post subject: Re: Conspiracy theory? Posted: 12 Feb 2017, 10:22 |
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allenwrench wrote: I recently picked up a lot of about of 150 hd-dvds, after giving each one a test spin I ended up with around 25 titles that wouldn't play. That's almost as bad as the discovision days. So I wonder if that high defect rate might really have nailed the lid on the format. We know what was told to the press. But I sure would of hated to have to tell the stockholders that there was still some technical problems with the discs themselves and expect a high return rate. You have experienced about a 17% failure rate. I have 37 discs with 3 bad ones. That is about an 8% failure rate. The HD-DVD manufacturers had a high failure rate. At this point in time, us HD-DVD collectors will just have to live it.
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dumbchemist
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Post subject: Re: Conspiracy theory? Posted: 12 Feb 2017, 20:03 |
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signofzeta wrote: What exactly is the "conspiracy" theory here? That they self destructed to avoid paying to replace discs? That's crazy.
I assumed this would be about Sony colluding with studios, which did happen. I don't know how much of it was technically unethical though. I think what the author of this thread is talking about is the conspiracy that manufacturers create products that will fail after their warranty has expired. I don't take any credence in the therory. I attribute it to Murphy's Law. I inspected my small collection of HD-DVD's and found quite a few with the WB emblem on their back. I guess I will have to play those movies to check for any ones that have turned "bad" since I got them. I have a DVD/HD-DVD combo disc of "300" that the HD-DVD side is unplayable. The DVD side is okay. This just shows that the technology to produce DVD is mature; but, the HD-DVD was still "growing up".
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allenwrench
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Post subject: Re: Conspiracy theory? Posted: 13 Feb 2017, 01:59 |
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So thank you for your responses, maybe I should have titled the topic "The Chicken or the Egg". It just seems crazy that they would pull the plug on a format that had already sold one million players in just two years. Personally I bought a PS3 back in the day and rented most of my discs, when I started finding blu-rays cheap are started collecting. About 3 years ago I picked up a hd-DVD player and now I'm 75% happy with the discs I find.
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