Toshiba's new SUPER UP-CONVERSION

The latest news that Toshiba will be producing a DVD player with SUPER upconversion that will allow any dvd to be viewed in a quality very close to HD. When you think about it, SUPERBIT allowed higher picture quality on normal DVD players and never really took off in popularity. After many conversations with people I know I have come to the conclusion that the average person out there is not that interested in HD and would certainly opt for the near HD option if it meant they can use the DVD collection they already have and the unit wasn't an astronomical price. From my experience, sales people dont know much about high definition and life is too short to be sitting around hoping and wishing that they re-release my fave movies in a HD format. Some of the rare titles in my collection will never be released in HD anyway and anyone that doesn't define a good movie by surround sound and CGI effects should remember this. Blu-ray and HD-DVD titles here in Australia are about $54.00 each and standard new-releases DVD's are about $26.00.
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[Post edited by melmax on Jan 17, 2008]

Where's the link to this news? Also Toshiba already has an HD DVD player that has super upconversion of regular DVD's to near HD quality. It's called the HD-XA2 and it just won the 2007 Editors' Choice Award from Sound & Vision.

http://www.dvdtown.com/news/toshiba-hd-xa2-hd-dvd-player-awarded-by-sound--vision/5136

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its Silicon Optix video processor turns the HD-XA2 into one of the best upconverting DVD players we've seen

[Post edited by Falcon01 on Jan 17, 2008]

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The latest news that Toshiba will be producing a DVD player with SUPER upconversion that will allow any dvd to be viewed in a quality very close to HD.

Hey perhaps Toshiba could put this technology toward magically increasing the resolution and quality of standard TV broadcast channels. Then we wouldn't need all those HD channels or programming.

Toshiba Regza teles already upscale standard TV broadcasts

toshiba players also do the laundry for you.

Where do you buy your discs? Because i pay between $25-$40 from Big W, and even Ezy DVD averages between $35-$40, However places like Sanity sell them for around $50 but there's always heaps on the shelves there lol (I wonder why??).

I bought a dvd from Big W and it cost me $46.00. Australia also has very limited titles. And its very hard to get hd-dvd titles. You cant rent hd-dvd titles, thats for sure.

I do not agree with part of your thread Max. I do think people want HD but yea I agree that do not want to pay an arm and a leg for it. Thats why I am shocked by WB jumping with Blu Ray,but I can understand especially if they received some money for the deal. The HD DVD players, are very affordable in price (I payed 98.00 for my A2) I still see SD DVD players for over 100.00 and do you really think the super upconverts are going to be less than that? What I would like to see, on this site, is a study to see how many people subscride to HD programming either through cable or sattelite? I mean if those numbers are high than yes people want HD. Thats what got me into this format war, after directv juiced up my hd channels and I watched one of the Pirates movies in HD. As for prices of the movies, there has not been a week gone by since I purchased my A2, and that was in October,that I have not been able to get great deals on movies. Wal Mart everyday has great deals on line, and the big box stores, Circuit City and Best Buy, have run some great BOGO and a BOG2 movie deals. Again Blu Ray prices, if they stay the same, will eventually price themselves out of this war. And if HD DVD goes away for good, than all the true HD DVD lovers will be kicking themselves for siding with SONY and Blu Ray. And that my friends will be a shame.

All Toshiba is doing is adding the same PS3 [type] cell chip to their TVs, SD DVD players & HD DVD players that Sony uses.

None will look any better then a current PS3. Or as good as....

This is just more Toshiba spin & damage control.

They [Toshiba] were partners with Sony in developing cell chip technology along with IBM.

Maybe Toshiba should have added the cell chip from day one.

And in regards to the XA2....do you mean the XA2 that Toshiba planned to dump prior to the holidays? Because Toshiba was going to abandon the middle & high end to focus on low end players?

[Post edited by TheDaddy on Jan 18, 2008]

The Daddy, can you post a link to this?

Since the HD-XA2 is one of the second generation HD DVD players and they are currently selling third generation players, logically you would think they would stop selling the second generation players eventually no?

As for this...

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Because Toshiba was going to abandon the middle & high end to focus on low end players?

I would love to see a link stating Toshiba was going to abandon high-end or even middle to only make low end players. That a new one to me.