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Toshiba to drop HD DVD, sources say
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Prices dropped drastically.
My first VHS player/recorder was $600, and movies were $89 at that time. (So, I rented for $5/night.)
I made this thread a sticky. Hopefully this will help reduce the number of duplicate threads on the same subject.
Optimist.
Thank goodness the player plays standard DVD too! I'll support HD-DVD as long as I can though. So, what will HD-DVD be called in future generations? HDmax, BetaHD, ??
I suppose it would be nice to settle on one format rather than having to mix up the collection since some studios release HD-DVD and others Blu-Ray. I have noticed some parallel releases though!
I suppose it would be nice to settle on one format rather than having to mix up the collection since some studios release HD-DVD and others Blu-Ray. I have noticed some parallel releases though!
So, what will HD-DVD be called in future generations? HDmax, BetaHD, ??
Nothing. It will be utterly forgotten and we will move on. What was RCA's Videodisc called? (CED - Capacitive Electronic Disc was the format, Selectavision was the brand)
At most, it will be a question on Trivial Pursuit, the New Millenium edition.
I think the name is too intuitive, if anything it will be hard to prevent Blu-Ray from being called HD-DVD by the media at some point if BD ever became half as popular as DVD. In essence the war would be forgotten unless you were a participant, and it would be called that as part of the natural progression, and not as a sign it's supplanted it.
the name HD DVD was more intuitive but unless the current trademark owners decide to stop enforcing that trademark the name will slip away. heck beta was probablya better name than VHS---most did not even know what it stood for---but it faded away.
Toshiba: No decision has been made
Toshiba on HD DVD fate: No decision has been made - DVDTOWN.com
All the rumors are FUD!
Toshiba on HD DVD fate: No decision has been made - DVDTOWN.com
All the rumors are FUD!
Microsoft holding off on HD DVD reaction, thinks "games" sell consoles
Posted Feb 18th 2008 11:40AM by Paul Miller
Filed under: Gaming, HDTV, Home Entertainment
Well you know it took over around here after CES. We didn't ahve any of it before then.
Seriously I was surprised to read that Toshiba dropped out this fast. Let's see what the next few weeks
...tick...tock...
But the report even says Toshiba is reviewing its HD-DVD, and then goes on with a rumor of a Tuesday decision.
The market seems to like the "rumor" that it will be dropped.
The Wall Street Journal: Toshiba Set to Cede DVD-Format Fight - WSJ.com
Free Preview - WSJ.com
This is getting so much press that an avalanche is heading for Toshiba, no way they will be able to continue HD-DVD support and throw good money after bad.
Free Preview - WSJ.com
This is getting so much press that an avalanche is heading for Toshiba, no way they will be able to continue HD-DVD support and throw good money after bad.
The story is even on CNN's website now.... Toshiba's hand is being forced now with "big" news agencies reporting this. They say they'll decide tomorrow anyway. If they didn't have a meeting planned so soon, they'd have to at least issue a press release that says *something*.
jOEsp you make my point for me, you mentioned the fact that there is only 25 million HDTV’s in USA homes out of 300 million people. Don’t you think that’s a bigger obstacle then any thing else, I do. And yes the difference between DVD and HDM is tiny COMPARED to the difference between VHS and DVD on so many levels. I never said that HDM wasn’t better. Have you viewed any Superbit DVD’s on a good progressive scan DVD player, pretty good huh then add to that upconvert abilities and it becomes harder and harder for J6P to justify an additional $500 purchase. So once again I firmly stand behind my point that it is an excuse and is no where near the reason holding back HDM. One last thing, how the hell do you assume that because 75% of the people don’t own it they are waiting for the format war to end, overly presumptuous. Keep searching for why HDM is 2% of sales cause nothing has shown me its because this war, mostly battled out in these obscure forums. I always thought that HDM would be obsolete within a much shorter time then DVD lasted. Therefore I’m not making excuses why BD will fail and not HD DVD were it to win the war. My point all along has been that BD has some serious price obstacles that HD DVD didn’t have, and those price obstacles don’t appear to be going anywhere since now there is little incentive to lower prices.
Oh and if you using your BD30 to make judgments about upconvert quality then how do you expect anyone here to take you seriously???
You shouldn't count *people*, you count *households*. As of the last census, as I recall, there are roughly 110 million households (makes sense since the average family/household consists of 3.x people).
As for there being 25 million HDTVs in the US, I'd like to see a source for that number. I don't believe it.
As for there being 25 million HDTVs in the US, I'd like to see a source for that number. I don't believe it.
That's about right. 25% of 110M= 27.5M
About 25 percent of U.S. households own HDTVs, HD confusion continues, researcher says
Digital ENtertainment Group puts the total at about 1 in three households: 33% of 110M= 36.3M
So figure between 25M and 36M households.
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Nonsense.
The fact that they are reporting it on NHK (Japan's gov't-owned broadcasting system) means it needs to be taken seriously.
You can hang on to your emotional attatchment to a technical protocol, or you can accept the reallity of the situation. Nothing is preventing you from enjoying the HD-DVD HW and movies you have now, or that which is still available. But, the fact is, no new models of player will be released, and no new titles will be added that aren't already too far down the manufacturing chain to cancel.
Get over it. Deal with it. Move on. Stop whining.
And, you BD fan boys. Stop gloating. YOU didn't win sh*t. Sony did, and at great cost. And, they have a multitude of other problems to overcome.
I predicted that a clear leader would be evident shortly after the holiday season. This doesn't surprise me.
