posted: Jul. 22, 2008 @ 2:34p
FatherTed said:HD_DVD is dead...no deal here. And now people are trying to post USED outdates garbage? NOT a hot deal....more like a joke.
The joke is the crap you keep posting on HD-DVD deals. Why don't you understand that absolutely no one except a couple of infantile Blu-Ray fanbois who threadcrap every HD-DVD post want to read your nonsense. Yes, we get it, Toshiba and its HD-DVD format lost the high-def video disk war. Doesn't make these Toshiba players non-functioning or of no interest, for the following reasons:
1) These are formerly $300+ video players and are built like better quality, non-chain store A/V components.
2) Picture and sound quality on HD-DVD's is 100% as good as on Blu-Ray disks.
3) Picture quality of standard DVD playback upconverted to 720p/1080i/1080p(HD-A30) is supposedly on par with highly acclaimed Oppo upconverting/upscaling DVD players that are $100+ more than these prices.
4) HD-DVD's are available on eBay and elsewhere for the same price as standard DVD's (although the 400 or so titles available on HD-DVD are surprisingly unappealing, at least for me personally, as I've seen most of them that are of any interest and there aren't many of those titles I already own on SDVD that I'd buy again in HD).
5) Most of these used/refurbed units are probably trade-ins people made at BB or CC in a panic once Toshiba began waving the white flag and are not repaired broken units or "junk."
Incidentally, BR fanbois, you are aware that Sony's/Blu-ray Disc Association's massive (tens of millions of dollars) bribes to the movie studios to get them to drop HD-DVD in favor of the Blu-Ray standard have resulted in virtually no increase in BR sales, aren't you? [source: Maximum PC, Aug. 08, p. 9. Also, google "blu-ray blues" - you'll see other similar articles]. Seems that the issue wasn't just uncertainty over which format to choose, but spending $400 on a player and $25-35 on disks. You'd think some of those consumer electronic giants would have had at least a few upper level managers smart enough to know something about prices effecting consumer purchases.
If you're like me and have all 3 formats in the house and picking up more HD DVDs since retailers are trying to get rid of inventory, here's your chance to get a decent player at decent price. For those who don't know, warehousedeals is affiliated with Amazon selling their opened/used/refurbed/returned items.
