Re: I almost went Blu...

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Man, are u ever right. Every post from Scotsman is like that. Totally HD-DVD denial fanboyism from every angle!

Jono - I've not mentioned HD-DVD for a long time. You in fact were the one acting like a BD Fanboy when someone decided to buy more HD-DVD films with their voucher.

I am enjoying my High-Def on my Tosh - I'm enjoying the price of discs just now.

I won't be going blu anytime soon. I won't buy a games console to watch films and I won't buy a standalone that is less than 2.0 not unless it was at a price similar to what you can pick a tosh up for.

So I went to a Sony Style store today and asked what the cheapest bluray player was not including the PS3 and he told me $499. The model was a BD300 something.

Anyway I ask him if it's upgradeable to profile 2.0 and he tells me yes. I asked him if he was sure and he assured me it was. He proceeded to tell me all the latest bluray players can be updated to profile 2.0. Ok fine. So I asked some other questions and at one point he tells me this thing does not decode Dolby TrueHD or DTS HD. I was like WTF?? Sarcastically I asked "what does it do Dolby Digital only?" and he said yes! I don't know if this guy is telling me the truth but if it IS true how can Sony sell a player at that price WITHOUT at least having Dolby TrueHD capability? Why in the world is it $499 then?

After that I left thinking the PS3 is not a bad option afterall.

[Post edited by Falcon01 on Apr 19, 2008]

Check the master list of Blu-ray players and what they can do:

http://www.idoblu.co.uk/page2%20Blu-ray%20Players.html

John

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LOL, throwing good money after bad.

Ehh, not really. The movies will be good as long as I have a player to play them on. I was all set to use it on a Blu-ray player until I choked on the $500 cost of entry.

I paided 400 for my a30 and I got a gift card from best buy which i used to buy a vacum cleaner part. well it paid for most of it

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The movies will be good as long as I have a player to play them on. I was all set to use it on a Blu-ray player until I choked on the $500 cost of entry.

Quite true. However, the same thing was said by the Betamax owners, 8-Track owners, CED Laserdisc Owners, et al.

You need to draw a line in the sand on when to stop throwing good money after old, unsupported technology. That date for most should have been Jan 5th, 2008 - 1 Day after the Warner announcement.

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You need to draw a line in the sand on when to stop throwing good money after old, unsupported technology. That date for most should have been Jan 5th, 2008 - 1 Day after the Warner announcement.

Toshiba has said it will maintain spares for HD-DVD players for the next eight years. Thats longer than I've had a standard DVD player.

I now have 3 HD-A30 models and 1 xbox HD DVD drive to watch my movies on. I don't think you can find the HD-A30 or HD-A35 anymore. Stock is gone. I'll have 70 something movies total in my collection plus enjoy the perfect upconversion. Choke on that SONY fanboys. I could truly care less about Blu Ray at the moment (they have a long way to go). I'll keep buying SD DVD. Not saying I wont buy a Blu Ray player when they get it all figured out and cheap.

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Toshiba has said it will maintain spares for HD-DVD players for the next eight years. Thats longer than I've had a standard DVD player

Dude... I'm sure the stock holders will be "thrilled" to have a whole bunch of obsolete players and machinery to manufacture them. --- that was just a soft soaping. I am sure that they will dump their remaining inventory after a way shorter time than 8 years.

Keep an eye on these places:
http://dollargeneral.com/Pages/index.aspx
http://www.biglots.com/
right next to the doileys and paper bags, and giant Butterfingers. LOL

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Quite true. However, the same thing was said by the Betamax owners, 8-Track owners, CED Laserdisc Owners, et al.

Yes, it can be said, however, 8 track and laserdisc didn't have the same quality as the prevailing formats of their days. Only the most fervent fanboys can claim any real difference in quality between Blu-ray and HD-DVD. What's more of a waste, using a $50 rebate to procure 4 more movies or spend that $50 and add $450 for a player that'll be relatively obsolete as well (not quite as much as an HD-DVD but the Blu-ray profile march goes on) in a year or so.