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In Reply to: RE: how will HD DVD owners manage their HD DVD "investment". posted by oscar on January 05, 2008 at 08:01:07
I recently bought a Toshiba HD DVD player for under $200 and got 10 free HD DVDs with it. I may buy a few others, but generally I don't buy many DVDs- I rent from Netflix, being one of their original customers. They have quite a few HD DVDs I want to rent that will keep me going for a while. I can easily wait until BD messes around and maybe someday decides on a standard, watching from the sidelines as BD player owners have to upgrade their firmware regularly to even play the latest discs. Maybe someday BD will "win." By then prices of the players will be low, and I will buy a quality player which by then will be a few generations ahead of the present ones. In the mean time, I believe I will get full return and then some on my $200 investment. As a wise sage once said, "what, me worry?"
Joe
PS: I am totally satisfied with the performance of my HD DVD player. It works flawlessly, produces a stunning HD picture on my 58-inch plasma set, and is much more user-friendly than my Oppo DVD player. It also does just as great a job upsampling DVDs as my Oppo does.
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the race is over. I seriously doubt there will be more than 10 new HD movies, only those already in the pipeline will show up.
The announcement from Toshiba was an Asian PR "Its over, we lost.".
Actually I was hoping that BD would win, because I do prefer some of the fine points of that technology. It hasn't won yet, though, and there are two dark horses in the race: Microsoft and a cheap universal player that may make format choice up to the studio and individual. But there are things only on HD DVD (e.g, a fine performance of the Magic Flute) with more to come and plenty out there, so my tiny investment will get its full return. I think it is simply premature to buy a BD player. The standard is not yet set, and they are relatively expensive. I have zero interst in a game machine. I'll get at least six months to a year out of my HD DVD player before I buy a BD player, if they triumph. It cost me not much more than taking my family out to dinner in a good restaurant, so I consider it a bargain. However, in all honesty I might not have bought it if I had seen the Warner announcement before I did, as I really didn't urgently see any need to get any HD player; upsampled DVD is extremely good. It's just that the Toshiba was too inexpensive to pass up, and I'm not the least bit sorry.
Joe
It might be a good while before it becomes available on Blu-ray (if ever). Until it's available on Blu-ray, it's a precious commodity.
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