Talk:HD DVD

message: someone should move most of this page to /archive, reduce it down to about a tenth of what it is, leaving nothing but a comparison with ble-ray and links to the format wars historical article, and blu-ray, and then link to the archive.
no-one cares about this format anymore, its just a historical note at this point.Scientus (talk) 23:45, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh really? Betamax has a pretty long article too... Just because something fails in the market place or becomes obselete or whatever doesn't mean that Wikipedia stops documenting it...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.220.91.186 (talk) 07:27, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

text: The format is not completely dead yet. Drives and players are still being marketed as reading HD DVD disks, software still supports mastering HD DVD (Final Cut Studio, specifically the DVD Studio Pro component, which still does not include Blu-ray support) and ripping HD DVDs, and the red-laser variants 3× DVD and HD REC may yet outlive their blue-laser formats among amateur archivists. Also, back catalog scales of HD DVDs are still ongoing at Amazon.com and other on-line vendors. Archiving is premature. 198.183.6.22 (talk) 20:01, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  archive 

message: The first season of the original Star Trek TV series with modern CGI is available on Hybrid HD-DVD. Seasons 2 and 3 are not. Quite annoying to Trekkies and Trekkers who invested in HD-DVD players.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bizzybody (talk • contribs) 06:42, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Seasons 2 and 3 were released with modern CGI and the same packaging style as Season 1, but on plain DVD only, not Hybrid HD DVD. Still annoying though, and that the Blu-ray release will be yet another revision of the packaging, so it won't match the Season 1 Hybrid HD DVD set. Meanwhile Amazon seems to be predicting that everything Star Trek will be re-released on Blu-ray, including the animated series. 198.183.6.22 (talk) 23:35, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Star Trek

message: Just because you could still buy HD DVDs and players in some thrift stores, does that really count to say that the format still exist? Because HD DVD ended 3 years ago, what you can buy right now are just remnants of the format. You can buy them now but who knows how long they'll last, let's say 10 years from today. 
Take a Ford Model T for example, it is possible for an owner to repeatedly renew its interiors and still make it run good as the day it came out of the assembly line. But that won't stop it from being referred to as obsolete, considering factories no longer produced them. 119.93.67.178 (talk) 01:01, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Obsolete or discontinued and "does not exist" are two different things. HD DVD is not a product (like a car or an optical disc), it is a format, described in its specification. A specification still exists even if products that implement it do not.—J. M. (talk) 05:44, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This is just arguing semantics. Edison phonograph cylinders still exist (I have around a couple of hundred). Nobody would argue that the format is not obsolete. 86.130.28.8 (talk) 11:38, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  HD DVD still existing? 

message: A IP editor (who apparently doesn't understand that PR is part of the U.S.) has repeatedly removed PR from the list of locations, as in this edit. The material they are removing is well sourced, does not imply that PR is a state and seems to make perfect sense. Nevertheless, they are continuing to remove it, now with absolutely no explanation.
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As the editor in question is moving toward longer blocks, now would be a good time to discuss the issue. - SummerPhD (talk) 03:42, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disc replacements in the U.S. 

message: I am removing the parts in the Decline section about "Rumors" that Warner Bros were paid $500M to drop the format or that Fox was considering switching to HD-DVD after being a very vocal and prolific supporter of Blu-ray.  These rumors were debunked around the time they were started and do not belong on Wikipedia.
See also:
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=517166&highlight=don+lindich#post517166
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=534903&highlight=don+lindich#post534903
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=478095#post478095, backed up by: 
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=488751&highlight=drunken+sailor+queen#post488751
Super Saiyan Musashi (talk) 21:53, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Payoff Rumors 

message: Ultra HD DVD films are expected to be released this year.--Ezzex (talk) 04:18, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about Ultra HD-DVD ? 

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