One of the obstacles that HD has to overcome is the ubiquitous nature of SD digital format now. SD is mobile (automobiles, PDAs) and cheap.

When are we going to see the first mobile HD players.

The first to have these may gain a significant advantage.

When are we going to see the first mobile HD players.

Alpine Electronics have already shown a mobile HD-DVD player.

Toshiba, Acer, and Samsung + other companies, are already shipping laptops wiht HD-DVD drives.

Due to the smaller screen size (generally) and inferior audio quality of these sorts of portable applications I don't see the need for HD, except to perhaps use the disk to store multiple movies.

A move to either flashdisk based or dare I say it, a HD-MD more be more appropriate.

Alpine Electronics have already shown a mobile HD-DVD player.

Toshiba, Acer, and Samsung + other companies, are already shipping laptops wiht HD-DVD drives.

I think that is great that Alpine has already moving the HD into car audio.Alpine is a great head unit as it is and I would expect there mobile player's to be top notch as well.
Do you have any links to this?

I think that is great that Alpine has already moving the HD into car audio.Alpine is a great head unit as it is and I would expect there mobile player's to be top notch as well.
Do you have any links to this?

It hasn't been release yet (scheduled for 2008 according to press release)
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-13963-Drive+and+Enjoy:+The+HD-DVD+Player+For+Your+Car.html

Due to the smaller screen size (generally) and inferior audio quality of these sorts of portable applications I don't see the need for HD, except to perhaps use the disk to store multiple movies.

A move to either flashdisk based or dare I say it, a HD-MD more be more appropriate.

The other reason would be people don't wanting to buy the movie more than once. As long as consumers need to buy an HD DVD for living room and a DVD for everywhere else it is a negative that will slow adoption.

Managed Copy could take care of that problem but I will believe it when I see it. If consumers need to buy a DVD for every HD DVD or BD disc they buy then HD media will die. This is one reason that SACD and DVD-A died. They came out just an mp3 hit the scene. Consumer could rip their CD into mp3, they could play CD in portable stereos and in there car. A SACD or DVD-A was useful in living room and due to DRM was impossible to make copies (even lower res) copies for the 90% of time when consumers are not in their living rooms.

It hasn't been release yet (scheduled for 2008 according to press release)
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-13963-Drive+and+Enjoy:+The+HD-DVD+Player+For+Your+Car.html

Thanks for the link.It will be great to see more info once it comes out.

The other reason would be people don't wanting to buy the movie more than once. As long as consumers need to buy an HD DVD for living room and a DVD for everywhere else it is a negative that will slow adoption.

Managed Copy could take care of that problem but I will believe it when I see it. If consumers need to buy a DVD for every HD DVD or BD disc they buy then HD media will die. This is one reason that SACD and DVD-A died. They came out just an mp3 hit the scene. Consumer could rip their CD into mp3, they could play CD in portable stereos and in there car. A SACD or DVD-A was useful in living room and due to DRM was impossible to make copies (even lower res) copies for the 90% of time when consumers are not in their living rooms.

I'd like to see Managed Copy actually be adopted, though I don't see the corporations ever really wanting it, they want to squeeze us for every penny they can. Plus they will always see it as a possible backdoor.

Another one would be to allow a substantial discount of the film on a different format if you already owned one of them, though I'm not sure how you could implement that pratically. I guess digital distribution would be fine for things that were of such low quality and size.