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Amazon, Costco & Radio Shack to offer HD VMD?

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4season

~$150 for a 1080p machine! Not much mainstream USA-centric material mentioned but it may be very interesting for it's NON USA-centric titles.

Maybe I really will need a receiver with a lot of HDMI inputs: One for HD DVD, one for Blu-Ray, one for an all-region DVD player, and now, one for HD VMD as well ;-)

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136977-c,hometheatersystems/article.html (Open in New Window)

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Things would really get ineteresting if ... - jsm 16:58:46 09/11/07 (0)
they offered one of these that could also record the discs, included a burner. I have some very nice material in on the hard drive on my DVR that I would like to burn an HD copy of. Of course, I don't know what kind of copy protection one would run into, but many programs are not copy-protected, at least not now. I think the first format that offers disc burning as well as playback in a cheap unit could completely change the equation.

Joe
Don't forget you'll need one for each Blu-ray region. nt - oscar 13:51:51 09/10/07 (5)
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- B-D regions maybe not actually enforced? - 4season 14:47:16 09/10/07 (4)
  Apparently folks are able to play the French (R2) release of "Paprika" okay in their R1 players.
  - region coding - Joe Murphy Jr 18:53:19 09/11/07 (2)
    As Jack said, it's up to the specific studio whether or not to make their disc region coded. However, one year after a Blu-ray disc's initial pressing, all subsequent pressings are mandated to be region free.
    - interesting read re: region coding - Joe Murphy Jr 20:30:07 09/11/07 (1)
      HD DVD is region free, but there may be a catch:
      6 or 1/2 dozen? (Open in New Window)
      - RE: interesting read re: region coding - Jack G 05:06:31 09/12/07 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: interesting read re: region coding posted by Joe Murphy Jr on September 11, 2007 at 20:30:07
        
        They'll wait until the release windows are over.
        They are one of the few studios who who really care about Region Coding. Most realize what a joke it really is.
        Jack
  - Its Studio dependent - Jack G 14:55:49 09/10/07 (0)
    Some studios use it some do not.
    jack

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