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Until you have a HD TV, who cares about HD DVD or BluRay. AND, since is is WAY too early to waste a lot of money on constantly changing HD TVs, both formats can go fry as far as I am concerned.

Just think about it. They keep changing the HDTVs so that anyone, today, with over a 2 year old set is screwed, and, they are doing it again this year, and will again next. Changes that introduce incompatibilities.

Think about it. The designs are screwy from the ground up. Buy a nice 1920 x 1080 set so you can get top notch resolution with no scaling artifacts. Can't do it. ALL sets, LCD, Plazma, ALL, OVERSCAN. So, that 1920 x 1080 signal you have will be distorted to something larger (overscan) so that what you see will NEVER be right. Physically impossible.

Maybe when they get the 4K TVs up and running they will have that problem licked, but until then, forget it. Every year the "standard" units sold are changed and the older owners get screwed. So, don't buy. That simple.
Posted by: James Dean_z   Posted on: 01/08/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Total HD  BroGnorik | 01/05/07
Combo it is again  MIS Master | 01/05/07
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How about Bluh-D...  Henaway | 01/05/07
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Stupidity hurts sales  GeiselS@... | 01/05/07
good post  Badgered | 01/05/07
The consumer loses  scidhuv00 | 01/05/07
Absolutely  Basel 101 | 01/05/07
Extra Features  voska | 01/05/07
That's another food reason....  jinko | 01/08/07
That, and the fact that there's no decent movies in EITHER format  jinko | 01/08/07
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A pox on both their houses  gregry | 01/05/07
They knew they were dividing/confusing the market  Boot_Agnostic | 01/05/07
...but they were blinded by the $$$ signs in their eyes  jinko | 01/08/07
Kill them both.  gordon@... | 01/05/07
A- Men Brother  rgforr@... | 01/05/07
I'm not surprised  CobraA1 | 01/05/07
One Consumer's View  cef1000@... | 01/05/07
Another consumers view  Hameiri | 01/08/07
geeeee, imagine that!  dr_who@... | 01/05/07
you can get an HD flat planel starting around 300 bucks.  Tigertank | 01/05/07
So the price of the player just went up $300???  jinko | 01/08/07
But which movies come out on each format.  Tigertank | 01/05/07
Microsoft is sucking your money and their warez sucks!  nomorems | 01/05/07
If you say  Boot_Agnostic | 01/07/07
It's all moot point  indoctrin8ed | 01/08/07
Not quite moot  Endoscopy | 01/08/07
Same story (greed), different product & time  jrpolgar | 01/08/07
Next Gen DVD  PJBski | 01/08/07
Who cares?  James Dean_z | 01/08/07
The porn industry will decide this for us...  stark realist | 01/08/07
Bragging rights for techies only.  tigerpc@... | 01/09/07
DRM in the plus column?  indoctrin8ed | 01/09/07
You must still be using VHS then?  indoctrin8ed | 01/09/07
Correct  indoctrin8ed | 01/09/07
you're a waste of skin  indoctrin8ed | 01/09/07
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