Buy now or wait until HD war is over

MooseJam · 02-02-2008 12:42am #1

Hmm thinking about buying a laptop but it's really a bad time to buy now, should really wait till the HD war is over and the winner is the standard drive in a laptop. Not much point in buying a laptop with a dvd drive as it's on it's way out, what do you think

Zynks · 02-02-2008 12:44am

If your main use for the drive is to watch HD movies, then you might want to wait. However, for pure data handling I doubt any of those formats will become mainstream for a while.

AlmightyCushion · 02-02-2008 12:48am

How often do you plan to watch blu-rays or hd-dvds on your laptop. I only ever use my dvd drive when I'm burning a dvd or cd or reading stuff someone burned onto a dvd or cd for me.

majiktripp · 02-02-2008 10:19am

I'd say the war is all but won already, blu-ray gets the spoils it would seem...but if you want to wait a bit longer to play it safe then do so!

Tom Dunne · 02-02-2008 12:37pm

MooseJam wrote: »

Hmm thinking about buying a laptop but it's really a bad time to buy now, should really wait till the HD war is over and the winner is the standard drive in a laptop. Not much point in buying a laptop with a dvd drive as it's on it's way out, what do you think

How do you know when the war will be over? You could be waiting a year or two.

On a related note: speaking from experience, don't watch comedies on your laptop on the train. And certainly don't burst out laughing every couple of minutes. Your fellow passengers will get nervous. I had a carriage full of fellow passengers very nervous on the train yesterday morning and evening, without realising it.

conzy · 02-02-2008 1:26pm

The war is over and BluRay has won, but most laptops I have seen have HD DVD drives... Just get a laptop with a standard DVD drive, who needs "HD" On a 15" laptop screen?!

TommyGun · 02-02-2008 4:20pm

Most of all the hollywood studios have one with blueray. I agree with conzymaher.

Buy now or wait until HD war is over

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