Ahhh, good stuff.

I do that already....I guess my A1 is straight then...ill get my fiancee to do it!

I was totally fucking with you. Don't take me seriously on that. I don't know anything about an announcement next week. I learned more about the possible switches from people I've talked to offline. To be honest, Amir didn't really comment on it although I was the one that flat-out asked. There were a lot of things said that I wouldn't discuss out on an open forum but that was more about the inner workings and things that went on behind the scenes with HD, BD and the companies involved.

That and the clips from 4 discs that haven't been released yet.

Well, technically, there is no upconversion involved, only deinterlacing. So, unless the TV uses a poor grade of deinterlacer, then there will be zero visible difference between a 1080i and 1080p signal.

Still, I can understand your desire to eliminate any unnecessary steps in the video path. And we anxiously await your review of the XA2!

The A2 will be out in a couple of weeks. The XA2 won't be out until December. It will be a long wait but we'll have the reviews of the A2, Xbox add-on and PS3 to keep us busy.

Interesting. I just realized...The A2 comes out this month. Xbox add-on next month. XA2 in december. Then probably the chinese manufacturers in the next few months of 2007. Very very interesting.

I bet one of those is HP4....since WB announced it for France already for Dec 5th....I bet we will get the announcement soon for a Dec 5th release or before.

I'll never tellllllllllllllllllllllll............

well, ok. maybe i will. they'll all be out by mid-december so it won't matter after that.

True....that makes sense. The tv is the HL-S7178W

Yeah, home theater is my only vice so I have to have the latest and greatest. I dont play golf or have a cocaine addiction though its almost as expensive.

HD DVD Promo Group put out a press release today saying that HD DVD is outselling Blu-Ray 3:1. That's it folks.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh...tach_Rates/302

I dont understand the need for this statement....what are you getting at by saying this???

You're right. I'll delete.

Also, you didnt state the facts correctly...

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061012/sfth049.html?.v=79

I wonder if pre-orders are even a factor in this. I have probably 10-15 preorders already.

What amazes me is that they go on to say that F&F Tokyo Drift is the fastest selling yet with 30% of stock sold in the first day. That just isn't a movie I see selling like that. I would have thought Batman Begins would have that honor.

You know exactly what he's getting at by saying it and I hope the mods take care of him accordingly.

Why no one ignores Josh just like Blitz and the others that came before him, I'll never understand.

Most likely pre-orders are not counted AND this research was done before Batman Begins was released.

Im assuming he was referring to the 11 to 1 number that was thrown around alot. Is that it??

I remember seeing that number, but dont know where the source came from.

If the 11 to 1 includes pre-orders of titles, it wouldnt surprise me though.

The 11 to 1 was (from what I know) including Amazon which this 3:1 doesn't include.

I could be wrong.

There also could be a lot of factors at work here but it is what it is. It would fit in well with where I am, that's for sure.

I think the 11:1 figure is total since launch. The 3:1 figure is August. I don't believe Videoscan numbers take online venders into account.

Videoscan does not include online retailers - only B&M. The difference between the 11:1 and the 3:1 is that the latter was confirmed by HD DVD Promo Group, and the other was posted in a web forum.

either way i think 3:1 is still a very impressive ratio for HD.

Without online retailers, that number would be a joke.

Ive only bought a couple titles in a store versus online.

I own 31 titles and have 15 on preorder.

EDIT: I went back and looked at my receipts/order history....

I bought 26 online and 5 from BB (one using the toshiba coupon). All 15 of my preorders are from amazon or dvdplanet.

I'd love to see the numbers with online sales, which is where I've also bought most of mine. Isn't every single HD DVD outselling BD on Amazon? That would raise the ratio a bit.

Not every single

It's typically about 30 HD DVD's ranked higher than the #1 BD.

I was going to say this, but you beat me to it.

Well, if we're announcing stuff we bought....I'm just about on my way to pick up another LDp and a bunch of titles from a local guy looking to dump them. This'll bump my LD collection quite a bit, and give me some nice DTS 1.5Mb capability. Hey, that's just the same as BD/HDDVD can manage right now.