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

The benefit to existing dvd player owners is - they continue buying dvds as usual.

If and when they want to upgrade the buy a DVD2 player and their previous purchases will still play, but have better picture and more features.

ok play cuz for a minute there i thought you were trying to demonize me somehow by affiliating me with spitzer?
My only beef is that all these technologies are coming out and a lot of people here cling to them like lifeboats from the good ship HDDVD. I would rather spend more money on movies, rather than players, and would rather other people did the same and went with a format that has near-complete studio support, so that we consumers help each other out. But instead it seems like many have a jaded view of sony and are trying to claw at it with broken fingernails. I would like my investment to hold. By history it seems i have made a good decision, please let us all get by the petty little things like the DRM fiasco and the battery problems (which were made by seperate companies within sony) and focus on bringing down BR prices without trying to dig up it's foundation.

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xplay, it's been stated numerous times that sony is artificially inflating prices for the BR. If so, toshiba could easily work out a deal with sony, that would bypass royalties. Tosh does own several sony manufacturing facilities you know.

How? Seriously. Samsung & other blu ray manufacturers (Sony excluded)... can't even release a product CLOSE to the ps3's blu ray capabilities- at a lesser price!!! Do you see a blu ray box out there, that performs on the par (or better) than the ps3- for equal or LESSER price?

I don't play console games... but I bought the PS3 due to it's FEATURES not provided by other blu ray products... for $299! (Sonystyle.com- $100 credit for the first purchase $299 & up).

The STINKER: Sony's PS3 is raking ALL THE PROFITS due to its advanced blu ray features at a CHEAPER PRICE... leaving its partners' blu ray boxes... COBWEBS ON RETAIL SHELVES. Now how will that be different with Toshiba?

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[Post edited by xplaytendo on Mar 12, 2008]

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xplay, it's been stated numerous times that sony is artificially inflating prices for the BR.

For a good reason. Need to make back $1 billion payout to studios and $3 billion lost on PS3.

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If so, toshiba could easily work out a deal with sony, that would bypass royalties.

And exactly why would Sony waver the royalty?

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So where's the added benefit to current DVD owner's

A lot of current DVD owners are likely to be Xbox 360 owners as well.

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This only caters to a select group, and that's current 360 and HDDVD hardware users

That would be around 11 million in the US alone.

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NOW it have a DVD player that might play the movie and definitly not the bonus features.

Then buy the DVD2 player. Should go for around $150. DVD2 players enhance all DVDs beyond normal upconversion.

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My only beef is that all these technologies are coming out and a lot of people here cling to them like lifeboats from the good ship HDDVD.

Wait!!!!.....there's still life in Ol' Red yet.

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[Post edited by tony1569 on Mar 12, 2008]

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A lot of current DVD owners are likely to be Xbox 360 owners as well.

Hey...I did'nt know that my 80yr old grandma has XBOX along with her DVD. Just joking with you DeadMeat.

Currently how much does SD software out sell BD software?

If the studios incorporate DVD2 into the SD releases then the consumer has already made the move to a next gen product without realizing.

If the PS3 was likened to a trojan horse by some - what would they call this?

I said that a while back about the PS3 being the most popular Blu Ray player, and all the stand alone players sitting on the shelves. And I was told that was not true, that people were still buying the standd alone Blu Ray players. Toshiba, I guess, is now deciding to play the game the way SONY played the game. I just wish they would have done this back in January, when WB made their decission. However, maybe this was Toshiba's plan all along, to create a whole new war with the DVD2 technology. Remember, it is all about the almighty dollar.

Well Scotsman, IMO, it's still not HD or next gen. Well I guess you could call it almost next gen. I can see the movie ads now. AVAILABLE TUESDAY ON NEXT GEN SD-DVD.

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The benefit to existing dvd player owners is - they continue buying dvds as usual.

If and when they want to upgrade the buy a DVD2 player and their previous purchases will still play, but have better picture and more features.

FYI: Both Blu-ray and HD DVD players offer backwards compatibility and can play standard definition DVDs.