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From: Greenville, South Cackalack
Originally Posted by digitalfreaknyc
Yah but it doesn't say which location in the city.
Look at the address column:
2375 Broadway & 86th St, New York, NY 10024
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Just got back.
Some thoughts:
There was a demo with HD/SD on the same screen: left side HD/right side SD. if you catch it quickly enough, there is a disclaimer in the beginning that says the SD side was digitally created or something like that. They made SD look A LOT worse than it typically does...and most people were quick to point that out.
Long story short: i was very impressed by what I saw BUT we weren't able to hear it on a full sound system...only one of those all-in-one speaker dealies.
Someone FINALLY asked about blu-ray. You should have seen the guy stumble. Definitely not the brightest bulb on the planet. He couldn't come up with a single thing about HDDVD that was definitively better. he kept talking about backward-compatibility and i said "Blu-ray has that too." He said that HDDVD has 95% of movie studios backing it..."again, not true."
But know this: there were people buying it. On the spot. For $750. As I stated before, these weren't educated guys. The one guy i saw who was waiting for a manager looked like hell. Huge beer gut in sweatpants with paint on them. Total J6P. But he was amazed...and he had money to burn.
Someone needs to kick Blu-Ray in the ass. This is their war to lose at this point. HD-DVD does have the leg-up because they're the ones out of the gate first...and the sales person was quick to point that out A LOT during the presentation. Overall, there was a lot of mis-information and HIDDEN information given. It was basically geared towards people that had heard nothing about it before and they're smart for doing it.
Some thoughts:
There was a demo with HD/SD on the same screen: left side HD/right side SD. if you catch it quickly enough, there is a disclaimer in the beginning that says the SD side was digitally created or something like that. They made SD look A LOT worse than it typically does...and most people were quick to point that out.
Long story short: i was very impressed by what I saw BUT we weren't able to hear it on a full sound system...only one of those all-in-one speaker dealies.
Someone FINALLY asked about blu-ray. You should have seen the guy stumble. Definitely not the brightest bulb on the planet. He couldn't come up with a single thing about HDDVD that was definitively better. he kept talking about backward-compatibility and i said "Blu-ray has that too." He said that HDDVD has 95% of movie studios backing it..."again, not true."
But know this: there were people buying it. On the spot. For $750. As I stated before, these weren't educated guys. The one guy i saw who was waiting for a manager looked like hell. Huge beer gut in sweatpants with paint on them. Total J6P. But he was amazed...and he had money to burn.
Someone needs to kick Blu-Ray in the ass. This is their war to lose at this point. HD-DVD does have the leg-up because they're the ones out of the gate first...and the sales person was quick to point that out A LOT during the presentation. Overall, there was a lot of mis-information and HIDDEN information given. It was basically geared towards people that had heard nothing about it before and they're smart for doing it.
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Originally Posted by digitalfreaknyc
Just got back.
The one guy i saw who was waiting for a manager looked like hell. Huge beer gut in sweatpants with paint on them. Total J6P. But he was amazed...and he had money to burn.
The one guy i saw who was waiting for a manager looked like hell. Huge beer gut in sweatpants with paint on them. Total J6P. But he was amazed...and he had money to burn.

That being said, I really want to buy products right off the bat, but something is telling me to wait a few months and see what way the wind is blowing first.
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From: WV
Here is another report from Toshiba’s HD DVD Road Show:
http://www.dvdfile.com/index.php?opt...k=view&id=5321
http://www.dvdfile.com/index.php?opt...k=view&id=5321




