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Sony: Blu-ray-HD DVD War Is 'Stalemate' (Howard Stringer-CEO of SONY, says a "difficult fight.")
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| November 9, 2007
| Phillip Swann
Posted on 11/10/2007 3:10:38 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave
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posted on
11/10/2007 3:13:58 AM PST
by
Las Vegas Dave
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton, June 2004.)
To: Las Vegas Dave
Are there any disc players that can playback both formats? I tired of waiting for the loser to be officially announced.
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posted on
11/10/2007 3:16:03 AM PST
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Dixie Yooper
No, no machine can play both formats.
That’s the whole problem of... you know.... two formats.
You’d have to have a machine with 2 seperate drives/trays. They are not at all easily made compatible.
Try to find the ever elusive machine that can play beta and VHS.
To: PittsburghAfterDark
This is the same thing that happened 20 years ago with videos.
One would think the industry would have learned from that fiasco.
To: Dixie Yooper
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posted on
11/10/2007 3:25:42 AM PST
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: PittsburghAfterDark
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posted on
11/10/2007 3:27:16 AM PST
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: Miss Marple
Stringer even discounted the importance of winning the format battle. "It doesn't mean as much as all that," Stringer said.
This is the same thing that happened 20 years ago with videos.One would think the industry would have learned from that fiasco.
It doesn't look like it. Looks like a Betamax II attitude.
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posted on
11/10/2007 3:30:25 AM PST
by
Gorzaloon
To: Westlander
A little steep. With Christmas coming, I was hoping for something about half that price. I guess I will have to wait for the loser.
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posted on
11/10/2007 3:31:13 AM PST
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Dixie Yooper
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posted on
11/10/2007 3:31:37 AM PST
by
gondramB
(Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
To: Dixie Yooper
Samsung announced the BD-UP5000 will be available in 4Q 2007, at a MSRP of $1,049.
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posted on
11/10/2007 3:32:10 AM PST
by
Las Vegas Dave
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton, June 2004.)
To: Las Vegas Dave
Samsung announced the BD-UP5000 will be available in 4Q 2007, at a MSRP of $1,049.
I have one on backorder right now from Amazon, but avalability is said to be January 2008, for $799.00 if I read correctly.
Reading AVSForum and advance reviews, the Samsung is superior to the LG models.
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posted on
11/10/2007 3:41:31 AM PST
by
tongue-tied
(ANAAC is the future of the IRoA)
To: Dixie Yooper
I suggest you buy the Toshiba HD-A2, (90,000 sold last weekend @ $98), when dual format players come down to a few hundred dollars, any HD-DVD’s you own will be compatable.
I have the HD-A2, it puts out a 1080i signal, which is FULL high-def. 1080p is great if you have a large screen TV that is 1080p. But for the money difference 1080i is fine for us. (And you are getting a direct HD source, not a compressed or downrezzed signal from satellite or cable.)
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posted on
11/10/2007 3:41:46 AM PST
by
Las Vegas Dave
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton, June 2004.)
To: Dixie Yooper
The loser will be both. Next up will be download to play over your PC wired to your home video display. CD/DVD's will become a thing of the past. Want to watch a movie? Log in, charge it for a buck or two, and enjoy.
For $1,000 buy gas for a few months.
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posted on
11/10/2007 3:45:23 AM PST
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: Dixie Yooper
Actually, here's your best option:
LG HD DVD/BluRay DVD burner - Buy a moderately priced PC, shove that in there, hook it up to your television, good to go - add in some tuner cards and you got a full functioned DVR/DVD/BluRay/HD DVD system. But seriously, now that the drives are $300, stand alone units should be pouring in coming in the spring in the sub $400 range.
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posted on
11/10/2007 3:47:50 AM PST
by
kingu
(No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
To: Las Vegas Dave
I looked last weekend for any HD disk players available on store shelves. I went to large Sears, Wal-Mart, Target, BJ’s — all of which have extensive space devoted to large screen TVs.
I found only one player, hiding on a back shelf, unpriced, at Sears. I think the price of the players, plus the incompatibility issue, is hurting sales of the TVs. Retailers would rather sell on the basis of cable and satellite signals. Mostly sports.
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posted on
11/10/2007 3:51:14 AM PST
by
js1138
To: Miss Marple
Sony never learns. I wonder if Blockbuster does - if so, perhaps they’ll realize how monumental a mistake it was for them to go Blu-Ray only, considering that all the news is trending in HD’s direction recently.
To: kingu
Actually, here's your best option: LG HD DVD/BluRay DVD burner - Buy a moderately priced PC, shove that in there, hook it up to your television, good to go - add in some tuner cards and you got a full functioned DVR/DVD/BluRay/HD DVD system. But seriously, now that the drives are $300, stand alone units should be pouring in coming in the spring in the sub $400 range.I've followed this in magazines like CPU and Maximum PC and haven't seen any of them claim they have been able to get 1080p reliably from a PC system. The long string of decryption and reincryption and decryption seems to result in glitchy performance and downgraded HD. Some monitors that have more than enough native resolution downgrade the HD because they are not HD compatible with the video card (which adds several hundred dollars more to the PC).
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posted on
11/10/2007 3:57:00 AM PST
by
js1138
To: Las Vegas Dave
I’m rather interested in its 50GB capacity to replace DVD-RW for PCs.
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posted on
11/10/2007 5:12:29 AM PST
by
Wiz
To: Dixie Yooper
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posted on
11/10/2007 5:16:42 AM PST
by
tje
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