format wars over

Much more simple, the market wasn't and still isn't buying players. It
has nothing to do with the media but it does have everything to do with
the price of product written upon that media.

 

Yes HP. From el Reg:

there was dissent in the Blu-ray camp the following November when long-time
Blu-ray backer HP said it would promote HD DVD instead if the BDA didn't
bring Microsoft's iHD interactivity technology into the spec. iHD had by
then been selected as the basis for HD DVD's interactivity features, while
the BDA had decided to adopt Java. HP was keen on iHD, because the
technology would go on to form part of Windows Vista.

In December, the BDA said 'no' to iHD, and HP said 'no' to the BDA and
joined the HD DVD camp. We bet it's feeling very silly now...


Full thing at http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/19/ft_hd_dvd_obit/

 

In message

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Me.

In my defence my then current DVD player was freezing on chapter changes
and I needed a decent upscaler. Tosh were doing the free HD-DVD offer
so I went with their player - been very happy with it - the upscaling is
excellent, and it's much better all round than the cheaper Tosh it
replaced and it was priced competitively with other similarly specced
but non-HD players.

I had the option of the 360 add on - but the 360 is a bit too noisy for
my liking anyway.

PS3/Bluray only going to be an option when prices come down.

Currently on the hunt for a new amp as my creaky old Kenwood is
intermittently not responding to remote control commands, and it doesn't
handle video either. Anybody got a DG910?