A lot of people here need to learn to seperate the concept of 'inexpensive' from the concept of 'cheap'.
A DVD player made by a no name company such as 'Insignia' for $30 is cheap and an HD-A3 HD DVD player made by Toshiba is inexpensive. You all forget that only about a year ago the HD-A1 was going for $500. Now, a year later, the third generation HD-A3 can easily be found for $200 (or less if you look for it).
I would say the vast majority of people out there ...
How, exactly, have people been misinformed about HD DVD?
The BH-200 is a profile 1.1 player.
Besides, if you won't buy a player because it's not profile 1.1 then you better not buy a profile 1.1 player either. Profile 2.0 is due out sometime in 2008. 2.0 or nothing if you care about the features of the player, right?
Let me write it a different way:
shortened list for convenience
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YTD
04/08 - 2.33 to 1
04/15 - 2.23 to 1
04/22 - 2.12 to 1
05/20 - 2.03 to 1
08/05 - 1.94 to 1
10/21 - 1.86 to 1
11/04 - 1.77 to 1
see 4.2
The bh-100 is down to $600. This 1st gen player in not HDi compatible butit does play both and it shows the trend. http://www.circuitcity.com/...
The BH-200 is HDi compatible and can be had for $800.
http://www.crutch...
Danja
I see it changing...
Here's the Nielson numbers:
Day . . Week . . YTD
04/08 . 62/38 . 70/30
04/15 . 61/39 . 69/31
04/22 . 52/48 . 68/32
04/29 . 71/29 . 68/32
05/06 . 60/40 . 68/32
05/13 . 62/38 . 68/32
05/20 . 58/42 . 67/33
05/27 . 69/31 . 67/33
06/03 . 61/39 . 67/33
06/10 . 66/34 . 67/33
06/17 . 64/36 . 67/33
06/24 . 70/30 . 67/33
07/01 . 6...
PS2 emulation has absolutely nothing to do with Blu-ray playback... I'm really not following your comment?
I agree and disagree with you. The fact that Blu-ray discs sales are curently higher than HD DVD disc sales even though there are more HD DVD standalones than Blu-ray standalones clearly indicates that the ps3 is being used as a Blu-ray player. Anecdotally, I even know someone that bought the ps3 as a Blu-ray player on release day. He hasn't nor does he seem like he will ever have a desire to play games.
The catch, however, is that disc sales are not nearly high enough to re...
The PS3 meets all the profile 1.1 and profile 2.0 hardware requirements. Although there haven't been any official announcements, I'm sure that it will be possible to update through firmware.
99% of the HD PVR market is driven by the cable and satelite companies. This is a market that the combined HD/BD sales will NEVER win, it's a non-battle.
that looks familiar! hahaha ;)
I have a 4 Terabyte media server, and two 500 Gigabyte back-up drives. I can't imagine using optical discs for back-up anymore (even 50 gig discs) especially since 500 gig back-up drives are as cheap as $100 and dropping. Don't forget that recordable single layer blu-ray discs are still $30 at the cheapest. It would cost $600 to back up 500 gig just for the blank bd-r's PLUS you still need to buy a bd burner!
I'm afraid the days of optical backups are long over...
You need to read up before you speak up bud. The Dolby Digital and Dolby Digital Plus CODECs support variable bitrates. Because Dolby Digital is an old (created in 1992), ineffiecient CODEC compared to Dolby Digital Plus and because it also caps out at 640kb/s on Blu-ray, most encodes are set at a constant maximum of 640kb/s throughout the whole film. For Dolby Digital Plus on HD DVD, most encodes are set up for 1500 kb/s variable bitrate which means that in complex sound sections the full...
You forgot to mention that 55% of all Blu-ray releases are on 25GB discs and that 30% of all Blu-ray releases use Dolby Digital streams with a max bitrate of 640 kb/s.
http://www.blu-raystats.com...
90% of HD DVD releases use Dolby Digital Plus with a max bitrate of 3000 kb/s, 20% have lossless streams and NO releases use the lowly Dolby Digital CODEC.
I did think about my comment and I stand by my viewpoint. The 'author' tries to portray a certain scenario which does not exist.
He portrays Toshiba lowering sales expectations due to lack of titles, inferior technology and lack of demand while the PS3 is in short supply and player manufacturers are gearing up player production due to high demand, high technology and a breadth of title selection.
Let us tackle these one at a time.
Titles:
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It'll go on until dual format players get to the right price point. The LG BH-100 dual format player can be had for $600 at circuit city so that price point can't be far away.
http://www.circuitcity.com/...
I don't think you know. I'm tired of posting this over and over so here:
http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...
Perhaps you forget the days when DVD was trying to establish itself and Disney was publishing Divx DVD discs and refused to publish regular DVDs. Back then Disney would "never be in the DVD camp, that's a FACT!"