raggie33
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who will win i like sony but hey the made the betamax a betetr pruduct but lost to vhs so who do ya think will win?
whats better hdtv dvd or blu ray
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raggie33
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yeah thats weird about dvd cause they look so great on my dads hdtv i casnt even imagine how good it would look at 1080
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It's interesting how a standard-def program that's been de-interlaced (upconverted to 480p) looks more like HD than the SD that it really is. I was astonished the first time that I saw a 480p DVD paying on a decent monitor.
Anyway, it looks like Blu-Ray is going to win. A lot of heavy-hitters are throwing their support behind the format.
Anyway, it looks like Blu-Ray is going to win. A lot of heavy-hitters are throwing their support behind the format.
That's an excellent question. I looked into getting an HDDVD player, but wow, the price was enormous. As to true HD starting at 1080, I thought it was considered HD at 720 or so. My HD tv is rated for something like 720 or 760, I forget. It looked better than many HD sets rated at 1080. I even saw some ED sets (580 or so?) that looked better than some rated 1080. Anyway, last I saw the cost of HDDVD was around a thousand bucks. Haven't checked in a while. Has it come down?
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One of the kinks in all of this is that a display device for a high-def DVD is likely going to have to be HDCP compliant (or some variant of HDCP). This will likely rule out most computer monitors, and it's rumored that it will even rule out builders who make their own PCs and load Windows Media Edition on it. This is because the hom ebuilder cannot certify a "protected path" from the disc to the display device.
This could get ugly...
This could get ugly...
raggie33
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A Toshiba unit is out for MSRP around $500. Street price will be lower.TorchMan said:
Toshiba HD-A1 HD DVD
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