No way this upconverts better than my HD-DVD player.
HD-DVD was an undoubtedly better, well thought-out, and finalized format. Boo hoo. It's over. Don't make this "the good guy vs. the bad guy," it's ridiculous to believe that any corporation is really in it "for the consumer." Toshiba wanted to make money like everyone else. Underselling players wasn't enough to escape Blu-ray's marketing muscle. You can, however, take comfort in the fact that Blu Ray will probably not take off like Sony'd hoped and will remain a niche product, if that's any consolation. Toshiba either needs to bite the bullet if they wanna make some of that money they lost back and make nice and produce a BD player. They'd make a damn good BD player too, judging by the quality of their HD DVD players. Or they can sit in their corner and stay mad while most of the other major electronics manufacturers are getting a piece of the pie with their repsective BD decks.
I don't understand how HD-DVD could possibly be called a better format. Yes it was finalized, avoiding version number crap like we have now with Blu-ray, but the features that it added on were ones we never really needed.
Better technology points go to blu-ray for the 50gb in 2 layers, as well as the ability to play back higher bitrates. If you own Transformers on HD-DVD you'll see why a higher capacity disc was an advantage, as the movie was not able to support HD audio (or lossless for that matter)
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
No way this upconverts better than my HD-DVD player.
HD-DVD was an undoubtedly better, well thought-out, and finalized format. Boo hoo. It's over. Don't make this "the good guy vs. the bad guy," it's ridiculous to believe that any corporation is really in it "for the consumer." Toshiba wanted to make money like everyone else. Underselling players wasn't enough to escape Blu-ray's marketing muscle. You can, however, take comfort in the fact that Blu Ray will probably not take off like Sony'd hoped and will remain a niche product, if that's any consolation. Toshiba either needs to bite the bullet if they wanna make some of that money they lost back and make nice and produce a BD player. They'd make a damn good BD player too, judging by the quality of their HD DVD players. Or they can sit in their corner and stay mad while most of the other major electronics manufacturers are getting a piece of the pie with their repsective BD decks.
I don't understand how HD-DVD could possibly be called a better format. Yes it was finalized, avoiding version number crap like we have now with Blu-ray, but the features that it added on were ones we never really needed.
Better technology points go to blu-ray for the 50gb in 2 layers, as well as the ability to play back higher bitrates. If you own Transformers on HD-DVD you'll see why a higher capacity disc was an advantage, as the movie was not able to support HD audio (or lossless for that matter)