[tomes]

Tomshardware reports that Toshiba is preparing to release a Blu-Ray player. Anyone else hoping that they will include HDDVD support??

 

[RapalloAV]



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Originally Posted by tomes /forum/post/16857163


Tomshardware reports that Toshiba is preparing to release a Blu-Ray player. Anyone else hoping that they will include HDDVD support??

It would be interesting but do you think they would even bother now?

 

[ti-triodes]



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Originally Posted by RapalloAV /forum/post/16858139


It would be interesting but do you think they would even bother now?

No way they'd include a HD DVD player now. It would add too much expense.

 

[Splicer010]



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Originally Posted by ti-triodes /forum/post/16858357


No way they'd include a HD DVD player now. It would add too much expense.

Hardly seeing as Toshiba already owns all the rights to HD DVD...

 

[RapalloAV]

How many of us kept all our HD DVDs anyway, I sold all mine off when I knew it was over?

 

[TreyS]



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Originally Posted by RapalloAV /forum/post/16858460


How many of us kept all our HD DVDs anyway, I sold all mine off when I knew it was over?

I have two HD-DVD players and 40+ movies. Why sell them? 1080p is 1080p. Seems fruitless to sell them for a loss only to replace them with Blu-Ray for more money.

 

[BAMAVADER]



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Originally Posted by tomes /forum/post/16857163


Anyone else hoping that they will include HDDVD support??

If they are smart enough to do so, it should be one of the best selling bluray players on the market granted they continue the trend of including all the new HD audio decoders. It would be a brillant move by Toshiba.

 

[RapalloAV]



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Originally Posted by TreyS /forum/post/16858503


I have two HD-DVD players and 40+ movies. Why sell them? 1080p is 1080p. Seems fruitless to sell them for a loss only to replace them with Blu-Ray for more money.

I didnt want to hold onto an Xbox 360 with HD DVD drive just to play 10+ HD DVDs. I only bought the Xbox 360 with HD DVD drive in the very first days of the format just to play HD DVDs. For me it wasnt worth the hassle of holding onto a game machine just for a few HD DVDs I had left over. I needed the room on my rack and the Xbox 360 with the HD DVD add on was taking up too much room. I moved on since then to the Oppo BDP-83 and for me HD DVD is over.....


Just like the others that had to go to make room on the rack.... lazer disc, tape deck, Beta, VHS etc etc...

 

[Electone]



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Originally Posted by RapalloAV /forum/post/16858460


How many of us kept all our HD DVDs anyway, I sold all mine off when I knew it was over?

I think most of us kept our HD DVDs and are still purchasing more. I'm all for HD DVD support on Toshiba's new BD player. Of course, it's never going to happen...

 

[gluvhand]

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Toshiba has been told not to include HD DVD support by the BR group. Kind of a wrist-slapping situation.

 

[Quentin2]

I guess Toshiba had to give in someday. With $98 BD players in WalMart the format's gonna make it after all. No way they'd include HD DVD support, it would cost more, be more complex and increase support issues. They just couldn't be competitive pricewise with the other brands.


I kept my A30 so must admit it would be great to have another sleek Toshiba (BD) sitting on top of it though. Right now I have a Sony DVD there so no problem replacing that down the road. I like having two players in my system.

 

[boblinds]

I hope if Toshiba does release a Blu-ray player, it has the same level of quality that marked their HD DVD players. My HD DVD player still looks superior to any BD I've seen played on my PS3.

 

[bassmonkeee]



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Originally Posted by Splicer010 /forum/post/16858436


Hardly seeing as Toshiba already owns all the rights to HD DVD...

Faithful to the last, but still wrong. Owning the rights doesn't magically make hardware free.

 

[jdmac29]

I think they could sell a dual format player since there are no more hd dvd discs being produced. How many out there can still buy vhs tapes but they have blu ray players with a vcr built in to accomodage the old format.

I am sure it would be expensive but if you have hd dvd this would allow more of a choice to buyers who would still like to play their hd dvd's long into the future. They probably will not but I think alot of people who still have hd dvd would consider a model like that for the future if available.

 

[16x9enhanced]

considering this is the HD DVD forum, why would there be a thread made about a new bd player?

doesn't make much sense imo.

oh it's Toshiba.

can't see why many people who already have the best bd players would be too interested in Toshiba's initial offering.

I wouldn't think it would be that great.

maybe eventually.

who knows.

btw: the last thing they want people talking about again is their failed disaster that was HD DVD, regardless of the quality of the format.

they would NEVER CONSIDER putting out a dual player so please let's not even talk about that.

ain't gonna happen.

 

[gluvhand]



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Originally Posted by 16x9enhanced /forum/post/16861613


considering this is the HD DVD forum, why would there be a thread made about a new bd player?

doesn't make much sense imo.

oh it's Toshiba.

can't see why many people who already have the best bd players would be too interested in Toshiba's initial offering.

I wouldn't think it would be that great.

maybe eventually.

who knows.

btw: the last thing they want people talking about again is their failed disaster that was HD DVD, regardless of the quality of the format.

they would NEVER CONSIDER putting out a dual player so please let's not even talk about that.

ain't gonna happen.

Feel free to not talk about it. As a matter of fact, please don't.

 

[Ben_Tech]

So are they going to give us HD-DVD player owners a free BD drive changeout?

Hey, it might save them some face!

 

[tomes]

Well, I wouldn't think the cost would be prohibitive, but not sure how they would market it (or if they would want to market such a feature at all).


I do think that there are a lot of HDDVD's floating around - and it would be nice to have some choice to get them played back once our HDDVD players eventually die...

 

[allargon]



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Originally Posted by tomes /forum/post/16857163


Tomshardware reports that Toshiba is preparing to release a Blu-Ray player. Anyone else hoping that they will include HDDVD support??

I think all the stateside blogs are misunderstanding Toshiba's intents to release a Blu-Ray recorder in Japan not a player here in the US.

 

[bt12483]



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Originally Posted by allargon /forum/post/16863366


I think all the stateside blogs are misunderstanding Toshiba's intents to release a Blu-Ray recorder in Japan not a player here in the US.

The source was originally a Japanese only Yomuiri article. After it was passed around being mistranslated by Google, Yomiuri later released their own English version:

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Toshiba Corp., which lost the battle to become the high-definition DVD standard format to the consortium that promoted the Blu-ray Disc format, plans to enter the Blu-ray market, according to sources.


The electronics maker will introduce play-only models that read Blu-ray Discs and DVDs by the end of the year.


According to the sources, Toshiba was aiming to recover from its setback by developing a next-generation technology that would supersede the Blu-ray format, but it changed the policy because the market is growing too big to ignore, the sources said.


With Toshiba entering the market, all major electronics makers will be producing Blu-ray products. Diversification of Blu-ray Disc players and software is anticipated.

Toshiba will start with play-only models because it perceives demand for Blu-ray recorders is unlikely to increase.


TV programs are increasingly distributed on the Internet overseas, whereas it is mainstream in Japan to record TV programs.


The company will consider producing Blu-ray recorders based on the demand it sees after entering the market, the sources said.


In the fight to become the new standard after DVD, Toshiba promoted its own HD DVD format, but the company failed to win adoption as the industry standard as Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. promoted Blu-ray and gained support from Hollywood studios. Toshiba withdrew from the HD DVD business in March 2008.


The Blu-ray market has entered a full-fledged expansion phase, as consumers buy Blu-ray recorders together with new flat-screen TVs capable of receiving digital terrestrial broadcasting ahead of the signal's switchover from analog in July 2011.


According to research company BCN Inc., units of Blu-ray recorders sold accounted for 66.4 percent of all video recorders sold in Japan in May.


If Toshiba stayed out of the Blu-ray business, the sales of its flat-screen TVs--the core of its audiovisual division--could be negatively affected.


At the company's shareholders meeting in June, then President Atsutoshi Nishida, currently chairman, said: "It's not that we won't do it because we've lost [the format battle]. We'll deal with the issue flexibly."

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business...20TDY01302.htm


Assuming Yomiuri translated their own article correctly, they clearly distinguish between play-only models and recorders. Wherein it seems play-only models will be released before recorders. Since recorders are only really released in Japan, and apparently are taking a backburner to play-only models, logical speculation is that these play-only models will come out here too, since the US only uses play-only models. And the US is the largest market for play-only bluray players.


Why would they limit sales of play-only devices to Japan?