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

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For example if I have a $200 upconverter why would I purchase another $200 (guessing) just for bonus features and 960p resolution.

Until BD players drop substantially in price the average Joe is going to stick with SD.

If DVD2 gets implemented on future SD releases by the time BD prices have dropped average Joe is going to have a nice collection of DVD2 discs.

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For example if I have a $200 upconverter why would I purchase another $200 (guessing) just for bonus features and 960p resolution.

Because a consumer would only pay HALF for a converter, while only losing 120 PIXELS, hardly visible to the naked eye (watching at a recommended distance), compared to a similar blu ray box- . 1080-960. That $200 figure for the VAPORWARE is about right... but I would guess it would go as low as $150...

In a scenario where you could get a super upconverter for over HALF the price of a blu ray box, while losing ONLY a fraction of the pixel count & STILL OVER THE 720P native format... Yeah, that's worth checking out. Notice I STRESS ON CHECKING OUT... since it would take A DRAMATIC VIEWING UPGRADE (from dvd) for me to consider this VAPORWARE. If it's close to showing 1080p VISUAL CANDY like my PS3 (in my perception, not yours... SINCE ALL OF YOU BLU FANBOYS ALREADY CONSIDERED THE ITEM INFERIOR), then $150 is a REASONABLE PRICE.

But I wouldn't pay anything more than that. Widen your choices people... it ain't gonna kill ya.

"Knowing is Half the Battle!" ------- G.I. Joe

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[Post edited by xplaytendo on Mar 13, 2008]

What I see tony is that half of America owns Durabrand $30 DVD players. Once they find out that they can get more out of their disks, they will throw down the $150 or $200 to get a shiny new DVD player to access the extra cool stuff on the disk. Or the other option is that they could buy the $550 dollar Blu-Ray player and still not enjoy the Special Features!!! LOL

Just a though.

If the DVD forum finalize on DVD2 could it be implemented as an amendment thus making it a requirement for anyone producing DVD players or more importantly discs?

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[Post edited by Scotsman on Mar 13, 2008]

I don't think TOSHIBA got that memo.

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[Post edited by tony1569 on Mar 13, 2008]

What all the posters seem to forget, is that India and China together have over 2 billion consumers, most of whom would not consider spending $500-$600 for a BD player, however will be tempted by an under $200 HD VMD player. US + Europe have under 1 billion consumers, albeit more affluent ones. The studios will go where the profit is. Paramount, Warner and all will start releasing HD VMD movies as soon as the Asian markets ask for them. We will have two standards again, as had happened with TV in the past (and US customers got stuck with inferior NTSC, while smarter countries enjoyed decades of superior PAL) FYI, you can already buy the players on AMAZON for $210....
The Sony victory may be short-lived indeed...

wait, so can dvd players play dvd2?
if so then it is just an hddvd movie that can be played on a regular dvd player but without the psuedo hd....
Talk about slapping a different name on the same package. the only bonus would be that a consumer could buy dvd2 in the eventuality that when they get a dvd2 player they can watch them in pseudo high def... wouldn't someone rather spend the money on the player before they bought the movies for it? I'm confused.... especially when i'm sure they will be offering ten free movies in regular dvd...o wait....

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wait, so can dvd players play dvd2?

More importantly, will these new DVD disks play in our Blu-ray players?

What's the actual resolution of the video going to be, regardless of upconversion? 960p??

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More importantly, will these new DVD disks play in our Blu-ray players?

Even if they don't - blu players will still play your existing library with all the special features - depending on profile of course