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Buy only what you can't live without and stick with DVD for now, BECAUSE...
with UPCONVERTING DVD players with both component and HDMI outputs now VERY affordable (I got one for $50 on sale on Black Friday, and now they're regularly on sale for about that price), you can watch a good-quality REGULAR DVD in what LOOKS LIKE HD-DVD without the expense of either the more expensive player OR the more expensive discs.

Of course I haven't bought either, so I can't say that as a certainty... But what I CAN SAY is that when I've used the upconversion on mine, it looked GREAT -- just as good as any of the HD broadcasts I get.

If we all do this while the true HD formats get sorted out, we can save some money and make the industry concern itself more with consumer needs than its own greed and competitive nature!
Jeff Hayes
Spartanburg, SC
Posted by: Jeff Hayes   Posted on: 02/03/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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They knew this was going to happen...  BitTwiddler | 01/05/07
Total HD  BroGnorik | 01/05/07
Combo it is again  MIS Master | 01/05/07
Only hope: abandon both formats  A.Typical Zork | 01/05/07
How about Bluh-D...  Henaway | 01/05/07
Although I haven't bought either...  ju1ce | 01/05/07
I don't anyone who'd bought either yet  voska | 01/05/07
Hybrids worked for recordable CDs  paul613 | 01/05/07
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
Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD  justanitguy | 01/05/07
in this case being scalable doesn't matter...  JoeMama_z | 01/05/07
Well, it depends on who does the asking.  Logics | 01/05/07
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
Buy only what you can't live without and stick with DVD for now, BECAUSE...  Jeff Hayes | 02/03/07
Buy only what you can't live without and stick with DVD for now, BECAUSE...  Jeff Hayes | 02/03/07
RE: A shotgun marriage for Blu-ray and HD DVD?  bwchato | 03/21/08

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