Top ten things to do with your now-defunct HD DVD player
By Ryan Block 
posted February 19th 2008 12:04PM
posted February 19th 2008 12:04PM
Gimmes
- eBay
- Doorstop
- Entertainment center cup-holder
- Destroy it. Office Space style.
- Mail it to the office of Howard Stringer in protest of Blu-ray's victory.
- Plug it into your clothes dryer's 240-volt outlet. Woops, honey! My bad, guess we have to buy a Blu-ray player now.
- Finally, replace your Betamax player.
- Buy the Blu-ray player of your choice, put it in the box, attempt to return it as "defective."
- Channel it through Whoopi Goldberg and make some pottery with it.
- Put a Blu-ray disc in the tray and then call up Toshiba when it doesn't work. Repeatedly.
- Put it in a time capsule, just to confuse future generations.
- Buy a few dozen of 'em and build a little hut for your Blu-ray player.
- Lock it alone in a room with a few lethal weapons... let it die honorably.
- Use it to upscale DVDs, which is all you ever used it for anyways.
Ah, you are all so silly. The real use is obvious - take out the solid state blue laser diode in it and make a wicked laser gun - for an idea how here http://www.instructables.com/id/Blu-Ray-Laser-Phaser!/ . Note - I am not responsible for you taking a retina out :-)
I'm going to Wal-Mart right now, just to buy an HD-DVD player.
That way,. At least Sony won't get my money.
As for all you Blu-Ray fan boys,..We all know that Sony's gonna jack the
royalties and prices up for Blu-Ray devices since now they have a Monopoly.
I'm gonna laugh next time I see one of you have to pay $50 for a BR movie.
I'm going to laugh when you aren't buying any movies at all, because no more are being released for HD-DVD.
Have fun with your doorstop!
Just imagine how much different the "format war" would have turned out if PS3 owners had only gotten a couple of games to play on their systems. I mean, when 'Folding@Home' is your number one application, it kind of tells you something.
build a trebuchet and fling it
I will send it back to Toshiba and ask why they destroyed my life and dreams because they decided to give up. I was a high ranked official in this war, I don't have a job, my girlfriend gone(she lefted me for a man with blu-ray, for the love of god blu freaken ray!), my children don't look at me the same they point and laugh, they tell me "daddy, were you always a loser" stupid kids. Ruined because of a dream that was destroyed, but I must go forward in this dark world we call life, go freak yourself Toshiba and freak everyone, you freaken freaks, oh god I'm crying again..
Well if you have xbox 360 addin, like i do (along with bluray) you can buy the cheap hd dvd (like i did yesterday). one disc costs no more than a visit to the theatre (with coke and popcorn). xbox should be under warranty for at least one year. setthe drive to a differnt region: watch that region dvds (if you have vista and the sucker doesnt run dvd region free softwares). franlky, i liked hd dvd interface better than bluray. why oh why did you not take the blu pill!
Thing is whilst Betamax wasn't a public success it was still a success. If Betamax wasn't a success why did Sony only stop making Betamax in 2000? I mean what't that? Twenty years after it came out? I mean I can understand some of the idiots that have posted about Betamax not knowing this but you'd expect a tech blog to be aware of it. Betamax was used in studios and by professionals because it was superior to VHS.
And no I didn't own one.
Actually if could see behind your local and national TV studio walls BetaMax was the primary taping equipment prior to the HD camera equipment used today. Kind of tells you that the best system doesn't always win in the consumer market, though they got it right with Blu-Ray this time.
For what I see here and the way I see British deal with issues concerning "offensive weapons" and with so many upset HD-DVD owners, it might be good to have a HD-DVD player/media amnesty. You never know, they might get violent and take it out on a Blu-ray owner.
We should probably take away knives, forks, spoons, chairs, lamps, board-with-a-nail-in-it, and consider surgically removing their knuckles too since they all "could" be danagerous in/on the hand of a HD-DVD supporter/owner.
Blu-ray owners, I suggest you carry if you got 'em ;)
Destroy it with a missile, satellite style!
"Ryan Block @ Feb 19th 2008 4:12PM
Harlo, naw, we're just glad the format war is over. If Sony lost we'd have done the exact same post, just switch HD DVD with Blu-ray, etc."
I guess that's because you are indeed as clueless as this crappy 'piece' (I won't offend real journalists with using the word article here) just showed... anyway online crap like this was inevitable when internet was born - though you could be doing something else, something useful like a catching fishes as fisherman... or be a gardener or something similar that's a much better fit to for your mental capacity...
Desk Lamp - power button turns it on and off
or
Send 'em to me!!
You forgot "make a blue laser pointer".
keep it because u like old skool junk and could be a collectible some day. lol
Pull the drive out and use it in your PC.
Hey Ryan, where's that follow up[ to the Palm Foleo: the exclusive first and final hands-on story?
Geez, why all you haterz gotta try and anal ream the guy with your keyboard? He's only doing his job. Besides, how could anybody argue that a superior format (faster data transfer rate and larger capacity disk) does not deserve to win a "format war"? I say great article if it got this many people interested enough to post a comment about it, no matter how negative. And as for what to do with your antiquated players, has anybody ever put electronics in the microwave? Pretty...
At this point keeping my Xbox HD-DVD to serve as a secondary DVD tray is worth more than probable $30 I would get on eBay. This way I can always keep whatever game disc I'm working on in the system and I can rotate my nightly movies around in the HD.
Weird how fast it went from useful to completely useless.
I knew this was going to happen sometime. I still have neither, yet.
also, DVDs are still the most popular format. Think about it, DVD players are still in most households (except for the ones that once they got HD DVD or Blu-Ray, they tossed their DVD player). There are 90,000+ titles avaiable in DVD,instead of just the low thousands at best for the other two, and they are really cheap and affordable now. Also they play in most computers and laptops purchased within the last few years. It will still take a while for computers to come with Blu Ray drives also.
So for me, ill continue buying DVD movies for a while.
My HD-DVD player is nothing like a beta-max player, which I actually also owned, the HD-DVD player still plays a current product called the standard DVD, beta never did that, and as a bonus, most Toshiba players are very good at upconverting to near Hd quality
I paid about $100 for mine with the 7 free movies, and some regular DVD's look great, I am very happy with my Hd-DVD player, I'll get an assortment of Hd movies for cheap, and continue to buy regular DVD's, and when Blu-ray pricing comes down into reality, I may pick one up
just picked up an toshiba A3 @ BB for $50 w/ 7 free HD-DVDs. can't even buy a decent upconverting dvd player for that price....