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Old Jan 16th 2007, 12:49 am
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Anyone bought one of these gadgets? Any opinions on which is best?
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Old Jan 16th 2007, 12:55 am
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too bloomin' expensive....but you might as well hold out and get a player that can do both...

but for the money, the cheapest option is getting a PS3 which is a blu ray player all in, which is good value for money...

but as far as data storage, still to expensive to see what's the best, that and considering how cheap hard drives are these days, there kind of a moot point as there less needed for a back up solution...not to mention burning a disk will take yonks...a good hour or so to fill up a disk and be very expensive.
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Betamax or VHS, anyone?

Wait and see!
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Old Jan 16th 2007, 2:38 am
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I think it was bill gates who said recently that both formats will be obsolete within a couple of years

seagate and ibm just announced terabyte hard disks and the internet and cable just keeps getting better

where I am, at anyone time comcast offers HD movies on demand, and they are talking about greatingly expanding their selection - comast can make netflix and blockbuster worhtless overnight in my area at least

I persoanlly don;t like sony at the moment, and it seems that blu ray is damn expensive and has worse picture quality right now that hd dvd
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I persoanlly don;t like sony at the moment, and it seems that blu ray is damn expensive and has worse picture quality right now that hd dvd
the big downer for sony, they just announced that they won't be releasing porn on blu ray, that'll kill them....should have learned, it was porn that won vhs over betamax at the end of the day...
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the big downer for sony, they just announced that they won't be releasing porn on blu ray, that'll kill them....should have learned, it was porn that won vhs over betamax at the end of the day...


Yeah i read that yesterday - they just won;t allow it

oh well - they reckon porn has bigger revenues than hollywood....
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For what it's worth, I bought the HD-DVD player add on for my X-Box 360. The picture quality is astounding! From what I've seen of the Blu Ray, it doesn't quite measure up.
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For what it's worth, I bought the HD-DVD player add on for my X-Box 360. The picture quality is astounding! From what I've seen of the Blu Ray, it doesn't quite measure up.
The X-Box 360 HD drive will also plug in to a PC, so for $200 that's where I'd go if I was going to get one. Think I'll leave it a while and let the market work itself out first though.
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I don't think you can go wrong now because by the time one wins out over the other, the player you have now will probably be obsolete.
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Originally Posted by penguinsix
I don't think you can go wrong now because by the time one wins out over the other, the player you have now will probably be obsolete.
True, but pick the wrong format and you may be stuck with a collection of obsolete movies too.
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Originally Posted by Muswell Hill
Anyone bought one of these gadgets? Any opinions on which is best?
I thought I heard the other day that I think LG is coming out with a DVD player that plays both Blu Ray and HD-DVD

A high end Denon DVD player connected through HDMI is going to give you pretty close to either of those.

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http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=18

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Originally Posted by mdyoung
I thought I heard the other day that I think LG is coming out with a DVD player that plays both Blu Ray and HD-DVD

A high end Denon DVD player connected through HDMI is going to give you pretty close to either of those.

Check out:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=18


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The problem is that you can;t make detail where no detail is present

no matter how good an upscaler you have,

480 line of res is always going to look worse that 720 or 1080 line of res...
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Old Jan 17th 2007, 12:48 am
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Originally Posted by mdyoung
I thought I heard the other day that I think LG is coming out with a DVD player that plays both Blu Ray and HD-DVD
A brit company owns the patent on the process, so I doubt LG will have the first player on the market...
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Originally Posted by fatbrit
Betamax or VHS, anyone?

Wait and see!
I am going with this!
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Originally Posted by Bob
A brit company owns the patent on the process, so I doubt LG will have the first player on the market...
or maybe they will


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