How I plan to stick it to Sony

Endless Driver · #1 (**permalink**) 02-29-2008, 12:19 AM

Well yeah HD-DVD is going away. Oh well! I am buying up tons of HD-DVD movies from Deepdiscount.com Why? Cause I have a plan. A half hashed one yes, but it sounds great at the time of my putting my card number through to buy movies. Ok here goes!

1: I buy the HD-DVD add on for the 360 for 50 bucks cause thats what they are going for right now.
2: Connect it to my computer and use it for an HD-DVD player. *Windows will find the driver for you.
3: Using the drive, I rip the movies onto my hard drive.
4: Get Powerdvd Ultra *This program is needed to watch the movies.
5: Wait for BluRay burners to be cheap and burn them in full HD Quality onto Bluray-R.

My goal?

Have Full 1080p movies without having to buy them all over again. Besides...I think I already have like 20 or so movies anyway.

McLen · #2 (**permalink**) 02-29-2008, 12:50 AM

That's brilliant. I think it would work? I'm just buying the 360 add-on, getting my 6 free movies and being done with it. Six HD movies for 50 bucks... yes please.

mikecentola · #3 (**permalink**) 02-29-2008, 07:08 AM

That's a lot of work!

fujii13 · #4 (**permalink**) 02-29-2008, 10:19 AM

Lot of work, but it's definitely a good idea.

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mikecentola · #5 (**permalink**) 02-29-2008, 11:01 AM

i too am waiting for the burners to come down in price....and for apple to add support for Blu-Ray to DVD Studio Pro

slwrthnu · #6 (**permalink**) 02-29-2008, 03:05 PM

lol. yea that will really show sony

oh and you left out about 180 companies that your showing by doing this.

and i'd guess you'd be showing the companies that make what your buying because they are all going to be switching to blu-ray.

xceebeex · #7 (**permalink**) 02-29-2008, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by slwrthnu

lol. yea that will really show sony

oh and you left out about 180 companies that your showing by doing this.

and i'd guess you'd be showing the companies that make what your buying because they are all going to be switching to blu-ray.

I was thinking the same thing, but just didn't say it. I don't even think Sony is the majority "owner", I think they mainly have rights to the logo and possibly name.

JiM P 2001 · #8 (**permalink**) 02-29-2008, 08:33 PM

Sony just invented the technology, the rights to use it are dirt cheap, lol

xceebeex · #9 (**permalink**) 02-29-2008, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by JiM P 2001

Sony just invented the technology, the rights to use it are dirt cheap, lol

It was the Blu-Ray Disk Association that invented it, which is lots of companies. Sony is just the one that gets all the credit and does the marketing. I believe Panasonic has the most Intellectual Property rights, not Sony.

mikecentola · #10 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 07:39 AM

yeah panasonic is the shit

JiM P 2001 · #11 (**permalink**) 03-01-2008, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by xceebeex

It was the Blu-Ray Disk Association that invented it, which is lots of companies. Sony is just the one that gets all the credit and does the marketing. I believe Panasonic has the most Intellectual Property rights, not Sony.

I knew Panasonic and Sony were at the top of the list, I thought Sony had the most Intellectual Property rights