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Originally Posted by matome
Raven56706 just posted the link to the Toshiba HD-DVD player preorder for $500 at Crutchfield.
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Originally Posted by lotsofdvds
That sure is a bulky machine!
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Originally Posted by lotsofdvds
That sure is a bulky machine!
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Originally Posted by digitalfreaknyc
Yup...noticed that :)
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I havn't read anything about Toshiba having or not having 1080p. I do know that player has been worked on for so long that Sony may not have even added 1080p to the spec when the prototype was finished. Let's wait and see offerings from other companies.
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Originally Posted by joshd2012
That's it then. The war is over. How does Toshiba not only bet on using a smaller disc capacity and lower resolution and expect to win this war?
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Originally Posted by joshd2012
Only 720p output? Blu-Ray is already promising 1080p!
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Originally Posted by Adam Tyner
Yeah, but you're comparing a $500 HD-DVD player to an $1800 Blu-Ray player. (Samsung's BD-P1000 is to be $1000, but the press release only mentions 720p and 1080i; the specs/prices of other Blu-Ray players have yet to be announced.)
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Originally Posted by Adam Tyner
Yeah, but you're comparing a $500 HD-DVD player to an $1800 Blu-Ray player. (Samsung's BD-P1000 is to be $1000, but the press release only mentions 720p and 1080i; the specs/prices of other Blu-Ray players have yet to be announced.)
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Apparently, that is the ELITE player, so I imagine the regular non-ELITE version should be less.
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Originally Posted by Adam Tyner
Yeah, but you're comparing a $500 HD-DVD player to an $1800 Blu-Ray player. (Samsung's BD-P1000 is to be $1000, but the press release only mentions 720p and 1080i; the specs/prices of other Blu-Ray players have yet to be announced.)
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New displays are 1080p. Mine is actually 1080i. But i'd rather have them thinking ahead than present.
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Originally Posted by scott1598
$500 ain't bad huh? with those formats listed which is the standard DVD format? and does this mean it is backward compatible? and is this assuming both HD-DVD formats will be available?
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Originally Posted by eau
What types of display support true 1080p? Most of the plasmas and LCD TVs I've seen has somewhere about 768 horizontal lines -confused-
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The big question is (amongst others)...will retailers stock both blu-ray and hd-dvd?
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I find it interesting that the player does not support DVD-Audio. Maybe it a mistake on Best Buys website.
fitprod |
Gate's Keynote speech: X-box 360 EXTERNAL HD-dvd drive is coming.
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Originally Posted by fitprod
I find it interesting that the player does not support DVD-Audio. Maybe it a mistake on Best Buys website.
fitprod Doesn't suprise me much. A lot of newer dvd players still don't support DVD-Audio. So it wouldn't shock me if the first gen of hd players don't. |
Following is one of the best non-professional summations I've read in a while (by JBlacklow at avs):
It's not going to be launch times, which Toshiba squandered a year's worth of. It's not going to be launch hardware prices, since spring and summer are not the holiday season. It might not even be launch titles, although Universal joining BDA gives them 100% studio coverage. This war will come down to holiday 2006. Given Microsoft's co-opting of HD DVD from Toshiba (less generous folks may call it a takeover) we witnessed last night, it looks like we're in for a rough format war that may doom both formats. Of course, Bill Gates has been pushing for non-physical media for a while, and prolonging the format war to eventually kill them both off is in his best interests. You gotta hand it to the man, he's more forward-thinking then some of us give him credit for. Hence, if we want a disc format to survive at all in the mid term, we shouldn't be duped by HD-DVD low player prices. That would be a very false economy. My $0.02. |
Some LCDs. New DLPs and SXRDs. Upcoming plasmas. Soon-to-be-launched SEDs. |
Pretty much true Grubert. Gates is like Darth Sidious isn't he? He wants optical discs out, digital media servers in, and Microsoft to control it all.
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Another interesting article
[...] It seems that Microsoft is now looking ahead and betting on digital convergence, in which home audio, home theater, and home computing become one appliance. Microsoft’s view of the future and the distribution vector for high-definition content is the downloading of films over the Internet via high-speed connections to the home, likely to a media server that can distribute content whole-home via a local area network. But it will take time to get the studios onboard and to put sufficient infrastructure in place to achieve critical mass. This suggests that it’s in Microsoft’s best interest to exacerbate and prolong the format war, causing enough consumer confusion (and disgust?) that neither Blu-ray Disc nor HD DVD triumph in the marketplace. Microsoft could then sweep in with an alternative that smacks of Pay Per View and DIVX. That is not a home theater software distribution scheme I can embrace. Our only hope is that reason prevails, there is a prompt and decisive format winner, and we can then begin to collect (with luck, for the last time) our favorite movies, this time in high definition. |
Originally Posted by joshd2012
That's it then. The war is over. How does Toshiba not only bet on using a smaller disc capacity and lower resolution and expect to win this war?
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