Posted on 11/01/2007 11:31:00 AM PDT by TrueKnightGalahad
Most likely they are standard TV's. When they stop transmitting non-HD signals, they will stop working, without a converter. And this will happen in about a year.
I got 4 of them. All of them are still in perfect working order. Three at my house and one at my parents. Have never had a problem.
>>But Betamax Blu-Ray is superior technology. Betamax Blu-Ray will remain the standard for connoisseurs...<<
Hey, I just dumped the last of my beta four years ago! That was only two years ahead of VHS!
I have four DVD players. Two of them I use exclusively for playing MP3 disks in rooms without tv’s. Three of them cost me less than $40 years ago.
I thought Mocrosoft was backing HD DVD?
I thought Mocrosoft was backing HD DVD?
I believe Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Circuit City have all yanked CRT TVs from the floors, or plan on no longer having them very shortly.
I would think Microsoft was on the HD DVD side since they have an HD DVD add on for XBox.
Nope, no SDS. :-) Just tired of Sony trying to shove their proprietary formats down people's throats - there just ain't any argument against the fact that Sony is just about the most anti-consumer company on earth. If Sony played nicely with all the other members of the HiDef Forum we wouldn't have this insane format war to begin with - but Sony got greedy, picked up its marbles and said "$crew you" to the rest of the world, and developed its own format instead of getting behind HD DVD, which was chosen as DVDs successor by the worldwide HiDef Forum.
Plus, Sony has promised much about advanced content and delivered nothing; Blu is far from a completed spec, and it looks as though it won't be ready for prime time for years, if ever. But I'm assuming you already know about Profile 1.0, Profile 1.1 (deadline has passed - where are the players?), Profile 2.0, etc. If you got any of your friends into Blu, I'm assuming you were honest with them and told them that if they buy a Blu player today it's an incomplete player, with no guarantee that it can ever be upgraded? I can recommend HD DVD to my family and friends with a clear conscience - can you do the same for Blu?
This is a name-brand (Toshiba) with a decent reputation, not some "store brand" piece of junk.
Walmart’s website is down for maintenance right now. Never seen that before.
Toshiba is hardly no name, and I doubt they will risk their name by letting WalMart push mass quantities of low grade units. Toshiba has a vested interest in the HD format prevailing over blu-Ray. That won't happen if they sell crap units.
I can tell the difference, but a (prior generation) high quality 1080i HDTV can have as good of quality as a bargain basement current generation 1080p HDTV. Earlier this year the first generation 1080i DLPs were sold at discounts, those still have better pic quality than current low end WalMart LCD HDTV’s.
I don’t watch many movies, heck I only bought my first standalone dvd player last Xmas.
On the news I heard they would offer a laptop for under $400. Now ‘THAT’ I might go for.
Reminds me of when I worked in the K-Mart’s electronics department back in high school. Everyday some schlep would waddle in and ask about my “cheapest” VCR. I would tell them that it was a Goldstar model that sold for $68.00 and that they shouldn’t buy it because it was crap. They bought it anyway and would be back in the store to return it the following week because it stopped working.
Very good point!
The walmart site is currently down for ‘maintenance’.
The walmart site is currently down for ‘maintenance’.
The walmart site is currently down for ‘maintenance’.
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