LOL @ HD-DVD

[Thief Silver]

? That band wagon is still around.

[Cowdisease]

WTLDR

fucking give me the highlights

Sony is going to win a format war.

[mollipen]

RDM Brian is still on the teet of Sony's nipple I see.

How so? Everything that The Digital Bits guys said was the truth. Well, I mean, leaving out the obviously opinionated decision of which will win, the rest of the post was straight facts. What Harry said over on AICN was obviously the work of somebody who knows nothing about the actual situation, so they were setting him straight.

[Rumpy]

I don't understand why Harry thinks anybody should listen to him in the first place. That's ignoring the fact that his whole horrible article was written on old outdated information.

[B-Ri]

nevermindddd

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[George]

http://www.gametrailers.com/viewnews.php?id=4743

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/st...4605296&EDATE=

In fact, according to their statistics, HD DVD players currently make up 60% of all high definition media players sold in the North American market to date.

Overall high definition sales hit a record last week as well, hitting
$5.2 million in actual consumer spending, which was 31% higher than the
previous record for the two formats. This highlights the growing consumer
appetite for HD content across the board.
Sales of dedicated consumer electronics players are a critical
indicator in the adoption of the high definition formats, given the high
attach rates to these players. With the successive price drops by Toshiba,
weekly player sales doubled in April when the price dropped from $499 to
$399, doubled again during the first week of the latest promotion in late
May, and increased again last week.

This information also comes from an HD-DVD promotional group, so take it as you will, but it could be a telling trend if the prices for HD-DVD continue to fall well below that of Blu-Ray.

[Rumpy]

Yeah, that's all PR bullshit.

[George]

Most likely, but one thing they're right about is the declining price of entry. I've see HD-DVD players as low as 200 dollars within certain promotions at electronics stores. I could see that price being standard by Christmastime.

[ElCapichan]

Toshiba's VARDIA RD-A600 HD DVD recorder with 600GB disk

Posted Jun 12th 2007 4:20AM by Thomas Ricker
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

Check it Sony, Toshiba just unleashed a new VARDIA hybrid HD DVD / HDD recorder in Japan. The 600GB RD-A600 and 300GB RD-A300 feature a pair of digital hi-vision HD tuners, Firewire, and HDMI and can write to HD DVD-R and DVD-RAM/R/RW media in addition to their respective hard disks. In fact, the HDD is the only point of divergence between the models. They'll cost a tad more than $199: as much as &#165;200,000 (about $1,643) for the RD-A600 model when these start shipping later in the year. Read-on for a few more pics including a shot of the backside ports.

Nothing that is going to cause major changes in the format war, but still pretty cool. That price isn't gonna win many people over, but I would be all over that if it was much cheaper.

[K3V]

manny people