Re: Toshiba, MS, and Panasonic started a working commitee on DVD2 format, recreating HD-DVD experience on DVD

Yes thats what they are doing, re-inventing the wheel. What they should be doing, is working with all the people who bought into HD DVD technolody. No, now they want to hit you in the pocket again, um re-inventing the wheel. Again what a joke from Toshiba. Hows that saying go, shame on you............

By the looks of it. This stuff is going to could hit shelves by september/october. This was the first step to making the format upgrade legit! Toshiba really plays by the rules! With Panasonics cooperation, Toshiba has some actual support right now. I was thinking from a programming side. It would not be all that dissimilar from what was involved with HD DVD. The file structures could pretty much remain the same, all that would differ would be a table of contents change, and the files assciated with HDI interactivity. It would almost work as a duplicates of files. Regular root menu file for DVD, and edo files for HDi. I could be totally way off and totally wrong. But Paramount, Universal and WB should be able to adopt the information in minutes.

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No, now they want to hit you in the pocket again, um re-inventing the wheel.

Not really. First DVD2 players would be 30 million Xbox 360s and one million firmware-updated HD-DVD players. No need to buy new players.

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HD DVD players could read the media. They probably would need a minor firmware update

My guess is it should, as it already upconvert DVD's. I hope DVD2 takes off soon as I won't have to fork out $500 for a BD player, I really like my A30.

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re-inventing the wheel

Re-inventing the wheel is too soon to say, unless they release an unfinished product and then release a newer version the following year.

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now they want to hit you in the pocket again

How can that be? Is anyone buying a new profile?
Also anyone with a BD player could benefit from this as well. All new releases should be around $20 to $25 mark.

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[Post edited by enc66 on Mar 12, 2008]

What they should do, is make anything new compatable with all the HD DVD players, so we won't have to fork out anymore cash.

Millions of DVD 2.0 ready players. X-Box 360s.

LOL you guys are a bunch of hypocrites. You b!tch and moan about the PS3 not being a real Blu-Ray Player and that “I would never buy a game machine to play movies on”.

What I find so funny is that TOSHIBA already got shafted once for being in bed with MS and now they want to do it again? MS will do anything to push HDi. If a Blu ray add on for XBOX 360 is in the future than why continue to push HDi, Blu ray will certainly not support it. If I were a share holder of TOSHIBA stock I would be concerned. All this continued investing in technology that obviously has not only allowed the company to break even but also take huge losses.

Like Bosshog said they are trying to reinvent the wheel. Also will this format be in true HD? Humm.. You can barely get the 360 to play games let alone a DVD on steroids. NOOOOO thank you, I'll stick with my 1080p and HD audio movies. I did'nt invest in HD to compromise. When did MS sell 30 million 360 units?

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My guess is it should, as it already upconvert DVD's. I hope DVD2 takes off soon as I won't have to fork out $500 for a BD player, I really like my A30.

Ditto. I too really like my A-35. Things could get very interesting this summer and beyond. I don't think BD saw this coming. Now, most likely, will probably hold off on my BD player purchase until this plays out.

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What I find so funny is that TOSHIBA already got shafted once for being in bed with MS and now they want to do it again?

To protect DVD royalty. Unlike HD-DVD, Toshiba doesn't need to subsidize DVD2 format.

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If a Blu ray add on for XBOX 360 is in the future

There is no Blu-Ray drive for Xbox 360 or Xbox 3. Toshiba has shown an willingness to extend DVD format with this DVD2 initiative. This means quad-layer high-density 24 GB DVD based on red-laser should be coming, readable by $15 drives.

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than why continue to push HDi,

Because it works now unlike broke BD-Java?

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When did MS sell 30 million 360 units?

That's the estimated installed userbase by the time DVD2 launches.

tony grab a 360 and stop reading old articles.

lol, more of this microsoft evil empire crap.

this panasonic, MS, tosh is ok, but they dont own any studios.

oviously is not high def. as the specs say, but bluray will hate anything stealing their thunder. I think is funny these people have the money to mess with other companys. I mean whats there to do, sit and watch? I would be doing the same thing.

Good old competition. better for us. haha some of you posters are funny. hilarios