Re: > WoW! Toshiba LO$T at least $1 BILLION on HD-DVD in 2007!

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you buy a new DVD player with the capabilities.

That would be the 4th or 5th DVD player upgrade for me in 11 years, and I'd have to double-dip for the 3rd or 4th time on some catelog releases. These DVD profiles are killing me!

Hey, here's another idea. Cable TV companies can just forget about HD channels, cause they take too much bandwidth. Instead they would offer just standard NTSC with "internet interactive content" for only another $30 a month. Who would go for HD after this offer!!!???

I wont be jumping on that one anytime soon, and instead stick to high-definition. Really a no-brainer IMO. I'd rather download HD content even if HD DVD or Blu-ray didn't exist instead of buy into standard DVD with "internet features". At least it would be high definition!

there are so many things wrong with the rebuttals in here that it is an excercise in futility to try and disprove "stubbornness"

You are right thepro00.

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IB is a longtime HDDVD supporter, and if his words are any indication of how any current HDDVD supporters feel than that should tell you something. His opinion is from a realist perspective. He is looking at this and saying I gave TOSHIBA my hard earned dollars and not only did I lose my money now they are saying as a second place prize you can spend an additional $200 (or how ever much this thing will cost) to get this not so HD machine. He is saying HELL NO, (not to put words in your mouth IB) I'm not crazy

I'm pretty sure that his HD DVD player would play these disks. That's the point I was trying to make. That's all.

Hey Tony thanks for the support, yes that is basically in a nut shell what I am trying to say.
Reggie, no big deal, if they do make a firm wear update for my A2 then that would be great. But to say that they just came up with this DVD2, well I cannot accept that. They had to have this in the works for awhile. Maybe if they would have told all the HD DVD supporters back when they came up with the DVD2 concept, well that would have been a little easier to digest.
I have no hard feelings toward any of you guys, I appreciate your feed back, and I thank you for it. I am just glad that we can again have civil conversations about our passion for movies again.

And I am not being stubborn, I am just not going to spend anymore $ on another new format thats all.

hey reaggie im pretty sure netzero 56k speedburst can still work with your computer you should try it. (these kinds of "toshiba wannabees" still hold 14% of the world's internet users back with dialup, sickening!!!!!)

The only way I'd buy a DVD2 player is if Toshiba can really prove that the quality matches that of HD-DVD or BD because after all, I didn't buy a HD-DVD player for the online features (which are a nice addition), I went HD-DVD for the high resolution and stability of the format. So most likely I'm not going for DVD2 unless the players are cheap (less than $100).

Tim's on the Austin Powers kick today...

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hey reaggie im pretty sure netzero 56k speedburst can still work with your computer you should try it. (these kinds of "toshiba wannabees" still hold 14% of the world's internet users back with dialup, sickening!!!!!)

Hey I still use dialup!!! I use it when I'm in a third world country like Mexico sipping back on Corona's!!!