HOLD ON TO YOUR HD DVD PLAYER When Laserdisc went out, i got some great lasdisc movies for really cheap. hopefully the same happens with hd dvds
I have the XA2 in the living room and the A3 in my bedroom(which I bought to replace the A1). I may also get an A35 as a backup player just in case one of them goes bust. I'll wait til it drops below 200 bucks though. And whoever is saying the PS3 has bad sound, it's true that it can't decode DTS HD-MA yet(neither can 90% of Blu-ray players out there), but that could be fixed with a simple firmware update. Otherwise it's a fantastic Blu-ray player if you have a HDMI capable receiver.
Uh oh... http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=950 Best Buy to Officially Recommend Blu-ray to Customers Posted February 11, 2008 by Josh Beginning in early March, retailer Best Buy will begin officially recommending Blu-ray as best choice for high definition movies to their customer base. Since the beginning of the format war, Best Buy has silently stood on the sidelines providing both the Blu-ray and HD DVD format for consumers to choose. Current sales data now shows that Blu-ray is their choice, and the retailer will soon carry the official stance that Blu-ray is best high definition format. Brian Dunn, Best Buy's president and chief operating officer commented, "Consumers have told us that they want us to help lead the way. We've listened to our customers, and we are responding. Best Buy will recommend Blu-ray as the preferred format. Our decision to shine a spotlight on Blu-ray Disc players and other Blu-ray products is a strong signal to our customers that we believe Blu-ray is the right format choice for them. Best Buy will continue to stock a reduced amount of HD DVD players and movies, but the reduction in stock combined with the unified voice to support Blu-ray brings up questions as to how long those stocks will continued to be resupplied. Source: Blu-ray.com | Permalink
Yeh my dad bought an HD DVD player b/c it was $148 with free movies. It's not like we're going to shell out 300 to 400 on a blu ray player anytime soon. As soon the price drops then we'll get one. For a "low end" Toshiba model it looks awesome on our 105 inch HD projector screen.
Wal-Mart on Blu-ray bandwagon Retailer will only sell Sony's hi-def movie discs, phasing out Toshiba's HD-DVD discs in its 4,000 Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores this year. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- National discount retailer Wal-Mart announced Friday that it had decided to only sell Sony's Blu-ray hi-definition movie discs, and will phase out Toshiba's competing HD-DVD formatted discs over the next several months. Wal-Mart said that by June, its 4,000 Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores would sell only Blu-ray discs and Blu-ray hardware players. Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD-DVD format are not compatible. "We've listened to our customers, who are showing a clear preference toward Blu-ray products and movies with their purchases," said Gary Severson, Wal-Mart's Senior Vice President of Home Entertainment in a statement. Wal-Mart said it would continue selling HD-DVD products, but over the next 30 days, customers will see a significant shift in emphasis to Blu-ray in both brick-and-mortar stores and online. The retailer said it will continue to sell DVDs and standard-definition hardware. Wal-Mart is the latest movie vendor to choose Blu-ray over HD-DVD. Earlier this week, online movie rental company Netflix (NFLX) announced its support for Blu-ray, and said it would phase out HD-DVD as well. Video publishers Walt Disney (DIS, Fortune 500), Sony's Sony Pictures, News Corp.'s (NWS, Fortune 500) Twentieth Century Fox, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have all endorsed Blu-ray. In a rivalry that mirrors the Betamax-VHS dispute of the 1970s, Sony (SNE) and Toshiba have been battling each other to define the industry's hi-definition video standard. The winner will see a boost in the sale of hardware needed to play the hi-definition discs. http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/15/technology/wal-mart_blu-ray/index.htm?cnn=yes
Toshiba may throw in the towel "soon" Paramount's also supposed to be just about ready to make their switch. It's all over but the crying. If you want to re-sell HD material, better try and beat the flood. If you want to get a huge library of the stuff on the cheap, it won't be hard. Evan
$12 with free shipping on lots of HD DVD titles http://www.deepdiscount.com/Hi-Def_stcVVcatId462356VVviewcat.htm
Wow, seems like HD didn't put up much of a fight. So much for my HD-DVD player for my XBOX. I wonder how thats gonna workout for Microsoft now? Are they going to sell a blu-ray player? or Future SKU's with a blu-ray player already installed. I guess they played their cards right by not including the HD-DVD playback capability.
They are going to wait until Toshiba caves. Then, they are going to make an announcement about working on it. Then, it will be available in 2009...probably fall. I don't think I'm going to wait around on that. It seems like a long time to have to wait when I can just spend $200 more and get a PS3.
I'm of the opinion that it would be great to pick up a HD-DVD player real cheap...I know the inventory will be limited, but they have some great titles and I'd like this for my room anyway...I will say I like the combo disc it has (HD-DVD and Std. Def. all in one package)... That being said, I never purchased Transformers in Std. def. as I was willing to wait for it to come to blu-ray...Same with Batman begins...
That's in both Blu Ray and HD drives. You'll just find some people arguing that HD does a better job of upconverting DVDs. Evan
He's talking about HD DVD discs that contain a HD DVD version and DVD version of a movie on the same disc. IOW, you can play it on a HD DVD player or a DVD player. The BDA approved a similar design, but no studio has bothered with it.
I'm waiting for HD DVD to officially die so that I can pick up a Toshiba HD-XA2 for cheap. That IMO is the best DVD upconverter out there.
