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Blueray wins the consumer space. Thats the way it is so what now? I purchased a $199 Toshiba deck a few months before Christmas and was a little disappointed when Warner backed out of the deal. So as I am taking the photos of the player to put on ebay, I had to stop and cool down. I thought: I have an upscaling DVD player here, why not just keep it. I have the original 7 movies and Ill be able to get tons of movies on clearance real soon. I also own an HD camcorder that I thunk the video down to DVD grade so I can store it. But then it hit me, why not use regular DL DVDs and make HD DVDs on them. HD DVD itself is just a disc format. Its just a big DVD. Blueray on the other hand is a new format and required special handling. So the short clips from my camcorder fit right on a regular DVD-DL and it is formated asHD DVD. Just so every knows what I just said, you can put HD DVD content on a regular DVD and read it on my PC's DVD and my set top HD DVD as well as my XBOX360. If Toshiba were to beat sony to the puch on delivering the HD DVD recorders to the masses and make it cost effective, HD DVD will still have a place in the household. Maybe not "the" consumer player for rentals and such but we all know where that is going. Online is here stay. Apple knows this and has multiple players. If I have a good way to store my downloaded content, in a native 1080 format, why not keep the darn thing.
Does anyone remember VCD? SVCD? The Chinese do and still use sell and supply the content and hardware. I wont even begin to discuss the hacker scene. Dare I say alt.binaries.hddvd?
Give me a burner, CHEAPER DISCS, and keep selling the players.
That is Sony's worse nightmare. - Posted by: blainestorm Posted on: 02/05/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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