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"...Huh? Did these people miss the memo that Blu-ray won the
war? Considering that high definition player technology is still
the domain of the early adopter - in other words the savviest
consumer who is purchasing home electronics - I find it hard to
believe there are that many naive people out there..."

MP3newswire.net http://xrl.us/HDDVD

well then i wont either of the ****ing formats then. ill just get a standard
upconverting dvd player and somehow survive watching those. i know it will
be tough but somehow ill make it.

"Dave U.Random" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "...Huh? Did these people miss the memo that Blu-ray won the
> war? Considering that high definition player technology is still
> the domain of the early adopter - in other words the savviest
> consumer who is purchasing home electronics - I find it hard to
> believe there are that many naive people out there..."
>
> MP3newswire.net http://xrl.us/HDDVD
>
>

Leroy Jenkins wrote:
> well then i wont either of the ****ing formats then. ill just get a standard
> upconverting dvd player and somehow survive watching those. i know it will
> be tough but somehow ill make it.

Why not try one of the Toshiba Super UpConverting players?--
The company seems to be promoting them now...

Derek Janssen (no, the rest of us *aren't* going to get tired of that
one joke for the next six months, thank you)

"Dave U.Random" wrote:

> "...Huh? Did these people miss the memo that Blu-ray won the
> war? Considering that high definition player technology is still
> the domain of the early adopter - in other words the savviest
> consumer who is purchasing home electronics - I find it hard to
> believe there are that many naive people out there..."
>
> MP3newswire.net http://xrl.us/HDDVD

Lotta people buy vhs tapes, laserdiscs and even ced discs on eBay. There's
always going to be a market among a bunch of niche collectors of now
obsolete, dead video formats looking to score hardware and software and dirt
cheap prices.

T.B.

T.B. wrote:
> "Dave U.Random" wrote:
>
>> "...Huh? Did these people miss the memo that Blu-ray won the
>> war? Considering that high definition player technology is still
>> the domain of the early adopter - in other words the savviest
>> consumer who is purchasing home electronics - I find it hard to
>> believe there are that many naive people out there..."
>>
>> MP3newswire.net http://xrl.us/HDDVD
>
> Lotta people buy vhs tapes, laserdiscs and even ced discs on eBay.
> There's always going to be a market among a bunch of niche collectors of
> now obsolete, dead video formats looking to score hardware and software
> and dirt cheap prices.
>
> T.B.

I still on occasion buy VHS tapes (usually for a dollar or less) from
the local thrift stores. Ah, the old CED discs. We used to have a player
and something like 100 of those discs back in the mid-80s. Big, clunky
12" platters you had to flip like a record (except you used the sleeve
to input and retrieve the disc). But we watched them to death.

While I will continue to buy DVD discs, I probably won't get a
Blu-Ray disc til' I am forced to (and to be honest, I don't
see Blu-Ray becoming dominant over DVD for a while yet).

One useful thing the Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD/DVD player does is
downmix DTS soundtracks to stereo so they can be (somewhat)
decoded using Dolby Pro-Logic/Pro-Logic II.

Kirk Bayne
alt.video.digital-tv Home Page
<http://www.geocities.com/lislislislis/avdtv.htm>

On Mar 8, 6:28 pm, Dave U.Random <anonym...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net>
wrote:
> "...Huh? Did these people miss the memo that Blu-ray won the
> war? Considering that high definition player technology is still
> the domain of the early adopter - in other words the savviest
> consumer who is purchasing home electronics - I find it hard to
> believe there are that many naive people out there..."
>
> MP3newswire.nethttp://xrl.us/HDDVD

The only idiot is the person who wrote what was quoted. If you can
pick this technology up cheap right now, why wouldn't you? Blu-Ray is
still not cheap enough for most consumers but some movie lovers and
tech geeks would love picking up a really cheap HD DVD player... what
with all the massive sales on the movies going on all over the place
($9.11 at DeepDiscount???).

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:56:01 -0700 (PDT), The alMIGHTY N
<> wrote:

>On Mar 8, 6:28 pm, Dave U.Random <anonym...@anonymitaet-im-inter.net>
>wrote:
>> "...Huh? Did these people miss the memo that Blu-ray won the
>> war? Considering that high definition player technology is still
>> the domain of the early adopter - in other words the savviest
>> consumer who is purchasing home electronics - I find it hard to
>> believe there are that many naive people out there..."
>>
>> MP3newswire.nethttp://xrl.us/HDDVD
>
>The only idiot is the person who wrote what was quoted. If you can
>pick this technology up cheap right now, why wouldn't you? Blu-Ray is
>still not cheap enough for most consumers but some movie lovers and
>tech geeks would love picking up a really cheap HD DVD player... what
>with all the massive sales on the movies going on all over the place
>($9.11 at DeepDiscount???).


They can have all they want. I wouldn't want any HD nor Blu-ray even
if they were all free. There will be a new Blu-ray format to be
released fall 2008, but for Blu-ray to really take off we need lower
prices!