The fact that Blu-ray sells at 1.5:1 ratio to HD-DVD with 6 times the available players I believe shoots your theory down.
Plus,by your standards, shouldn't the PS3 be in your list too. I mean Sony just keeps dropping the price of that thing all the time while also taking OUT alot of its features.
(other than Sony studios)The studios will eventually support whichever format the masses adopt. And sorry to say but there are far more people that watch just movies than play games. Meaning, the PS3 is keeping Blu-ray in the lead right now, but at $399 vs. $99-$169 for a new player, which one will J6P choose?
Besides, Disney may be Blu right now, but they are on the DVD forum and they have ALWAYS abstained from voting on HD-DVD related votes.
However, in Sept. they were...
For $98 ,how could you go wrong? There are upconverting dvd players that cost more.
You do realize that Wal-mart placed an order for 2 million HD-DVD players back in April.
I'm pretty sure at those numbers, Toshiba found a way to make some money.
Since HD-DVD players and recorders are actually the approved replacement for DVD, things like this recorder are only possible on the HD-DVD format.
Now you can record High-Def content on regular recordable dvds(at a fraction of the cost of recordable HD-DVDs).
This will never be the case with Blu-ray recorders. Blu-ray does not have permission from the DVD forum to have this capability. Sorry.
So you choose, $18.99 disc(25gig Blu-ray or 15 gig HD-...
How about actually clicking on the link.
The picture they show is of a first-gen HD-DVD player almost 2 years old!
MS owns the rights to the VC-1 codec which is used almost 90% of the time on HD-DVD.
They went HD-DVD as well. They now sell the Toshiba HD-A2 for $198.00
What are you talking about?
Since inception, Blu-ray only leads 59:41
That is more like 1.5:1 ratio (for discs)
That is sad, considering how many PS3's are out there.
you're right. Even the PS3 is not 1.1 compliant. Yet,maybe,someday,...at least that is what Sony has said.
Blu-ray has three different profiles of hardware:1.0,1.1,and 2.0.
This player has no ethernet port, so it can never be upgraded. Profile 1.1 is it. Buy a PS3.
Profile 1.1 was supposed to be mandatory for all Blu-ray players released after Oct. 31. If it only takes a quick firmware upgrade, why hasn't Sony done it yet for the PS3?
Blu-ray is the format that is not complete.
Profile 1.0: play the movie(2006)
Profile 1.1: PIP (2007)
Profile 2.0: Web enabled features(2008)
The only player available RIGHT NOW that is Profile 1.1 is.....oh yeah it doesn't exist!
The PS3 should be upgradeable, but there are no other Blu-ray players that can. These are HARDWARE profiles.
Now HD-DVD:
plays the movie, has PIP, and has mandatory internet connectiv...
where do you actually get your facts?
The 51 gig HD-DVD disc is three layers, not four.
The final test results on the compatibility of the triple-layer disc won't be out till early next month. The results will be released at the DVD-Forum meeting(since HD-DVD is the only authorized successor to the DVD format)
Just one BIG problem:
You better own a PS3 or these new features won't work on ANY existing stand-alone Blu-ray players.
All Blu-ray players made right now are only profile 1.0. They cannot be upgraded.
Unlike HD-DVD, which had all these features STANDARD from the very first player.
If your tv is 1080p, then it will deinterlace the signal from the HD-A2! You will still see 1080p.
Blu-ray sells roughly 60% to 40% of discs every week.
How many more PS3's and stand-alone Blu-ray players are there compared to HD-DVD?
3 million PS3 to 400,000 Hd-DVD players.
P.S. you also say you care about 1080p and great sound, but do you actually have a system that plays in 7.1 lossless?
Boy could that have been anymore elitist?
From what I have read it is only around 30% of all HDTVs.
Besides, most 1080p TV's up deinterlace the 1080i signal from the HD-A2 so it displays at 1080p.
That line has been used for over a year now.
Sorry, it's not going to die any time soon.