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Thread: So what will become of HD DVD? |
    
Silver Member Username: Deadhorse
Post Number: 114
Registered: May-06
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| Posted on Monday, February 25, 2008 - 10:29 am: |
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I haven't been paying much attention to all this HD vs Blue-ray stuff until I noticed yesterday how inexpensive the HD players are now. Is there any point of getting one, will anyone continue to produce movies for them or will it come to the point that new DVDs will only be in Blue-ray? |
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Silver Member Username: Dmitchell
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
Post Number: 684
Registered: Feb-07
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| Posted on Monday, February 25, 2008 - 10:36 am: |
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HD-DVD is done.
Toshiba and Microsoft have announced it will no longer manufacture them, giant retailers like Walmart and BestBuy will no longer stock either the players or discs, and studios will no longer release movies in HD-DVD.
You could still buy the Toshiba A3, which does a fantastic job of SD up-conversion, but why bother?
Just wait awhile, the prices on Blu-ray players are already starting to come down a bit. |
Gold Member Username: Samijubal
Post Number: 3760
Registered: Jul-04
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| Posted on Monday, February 25, 2008 - 12:53 pm: |
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I'd buy one of the HD-DVD players for the upconversion if it wasn't Toshiba. I use my DVD player heavily and from a lot of past experience, Toshiba products don't hold up very well when used a lot. |
Bronze Member Username: Daniel61
Mississauga,
ON
Canada
Post Number: 28
Registered: Aug-06
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| Posted on Monday, February 25, 2008 - 09:57 pm: |
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where is the satellite forum? |
Gold Member Username: Samijubal
Post Number: 3761
Registered: Jul-04
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| Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 12:31 am: |
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I just saw the A2 for $80 with free shipping. The 5 free DVDs ends on the 28th. |
Silver Member Username: Rysa3
Houston, Texas
Post Number: 338
Registered: Nov-06
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| Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2008 - 02:48 am: |
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Blu Ray Players are actually going UP in price. No surprise. Tosh Xa2 are selling on ebay with entire HD-DVD collections for less than the entry level blu ray player.
HD_DVDs are fine for upconversion of SD-DVDs but other than that, will be relics after HD-DVDs are no longer made. They will play standrad DVDs quite well though and so if cheap may make sense for a new player. |
Silver Member Username: Dmitchell
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
Post Number: 731
Registered: Feb-07
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| Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 02:26 pm: |
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It's time for the Blu-ray player manufacturers to smart competing amongst themselves. It's pretty simple economics, really. Whoever has the best priced player will sell the most. I wonder what the per single unit true manufacturing cost of a player actually is? |
Silver Member Username: Rysa3
Houston, Texas
Post Number: 340
Registered: Nov-06
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| Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 07:46 pm: |
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Blu Ray is moving forward with the Blu Ray 2.0 spec, or Blu Ray Live. This necessitates the inclusion of web enabling ( ethernet), PIP, as well as persistent memory capability.
This will increase the cost of their players most likely. |
Silver Member Username: Dmitchell
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
Post Number: 739
Registered: Feb-07
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| Posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 10:08 am: |
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That sucks.
I was in Blockbuster yesterday and I noticed they had removed all their HD-DVD rentals from the shelves. |
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