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RCA's Stance on Next-Gen Media: We Quit

post #1 of 30
1/7/07 at 7:50pm
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RCA's Stance on Next-Gen Media: We Quit

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According to RCA's Dwight Sakuma, they will not produce HD DVD (or Blu-ray for that matter) players in 2007 until a clear victor emerges in the current next gen media war.
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post #2 of 30
1/7/07 at 7:56pm

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Originally Posted by Jeff®
RCA's Stance on Next-Gen Media: We Quit


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I wish I was that strong!
I felt the same way until we got the LCOS Sony XBR2 60" set in the house. A week later it was off to Xbox 360 land just so we could get the HDDVD player for HD viewing........sigh.
Even funnier, I think Blu Ray is the way to go.

I am not as strong on holding stances as I was when I was young.
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post #3 of 30
1/7/07 at 8:13pm

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Quit what? They never produced a player in 2006. The HDV5000 was a rebadged Toshiba.
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post #4 of 30
1/7/07 at 9:02pm

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Toshiba's only hope now is universal players...
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post #5 of 30
1/7/07 at 9:28pm

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Well since I've never seen an RCA electronics appliance that I liked/wanted, I'm not going to lose much sleep over this.
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post #6 of 30
1/7/07 at 9:44pm

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Originally Posted by Austan
Toshiba's only hope now is universal players...

Wrong....Onkyo & Meridian are releasing HD-DVD players this year.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/st...4501052&EDATE=
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post #7 of 30
1/7/07 at 10:22pm

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RCA had some great sets back in the 70's...

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post #8 of 30
1/8/07 at 2:32am

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Didnt RCA make 78s? RCA and HT almost sound like a contradiction in terms. Almost like Ford saying it wont make anymore good cars.
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post #9 of 30
1/8/07 at 4:08am

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Originally Posted by Tim Glover
Wrong....Onkyo & Meridian are releasing HD-DVD players this year.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/st...4501052&EDATE=

Also LiteOn and one other major Chinese CE will be making HD DVD players.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=783194
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post #10 of 30
1/8/07 at 6:17am

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As another poster pointed out, the RCA was nothing more than a rebadged Toshiba and (IIRC) the only retailers selling the players were Sears and Wal-mart. Perhaps they should been a little more clear and said that they are no longer MARKETING any HD-DVD players.
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post #11 of 30
1/8/07 at 8:33am

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Originally Posted by Tim Glover
Wrong....Onkyo & Meridian are releasing HD-DVD players this year.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/st...4501052&EDATE=
I wonder if anyone has passed this information along to Meridian and Onkyo since they have announced nothing. Maybe they don't know about it.
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post #12 of 30
1/8/07 at 10:10am

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Originally Posted by Deane Johnson
I wonder if anyone has passed this information along to Meridian and Onkyo since they have announced nothing. Maybe they don't know about it.

http://www.onkyousa.com/news.cfm?id=2
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post #13 of 30
1/8/07 at 12:25pm

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Nice link James.
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post #14 of 30
1/8/07 at 1:46pm

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I guess somebody must have told them.
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post #15 of 30
1/8/07 at 2:02pm

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Originally Posted by Tim Glover
Wrong....Onkyo & Meridian are releasing HD-DVD players this year.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/st...4501052&EDATE=


Meridian? My wallet just had a stroke!
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post #16 of 30
1/8/07 at 3:53pm

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Originally Posted by Larry Sutliff
Meridian? My wallet just had a stroke!

Add to this Alpine Electronics
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Several new companies will also release their first HD DVD players or drives this year, executives said, including Alco Holdings Ltd. of China, Lite-On IT Corp. of Taiwan and Japan's Alpine Electronics Inc., with an HD DVD player for cars Alpine
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post #17 of 30
1/8/07 at 3:59pm

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RCA made the "large hole" 45's!
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post #18 of 30
1/8/07 at 4:02pm

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Wow, Alpine Electronics! The return of the old ALPS-Motorolla!
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post #19 of 30
1/8/07 at 8:30pm

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with an HD DVD player for cars

Honestly, who needs this in their car...? Those screens are so small!
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post #20 of 30
1/9/07 at 9:33am

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I guess soon we'll see cars where a semi-transparent HD image is projected onto the inside of a 1.78:1 windshield with the help of a mini-projector mounted on the overhead console.
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post #21 of 30
1/9/07 at 10:12am

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Originally Posted by Marko Berg
I guess soon we'll see cars where a semi-transparent HD image is projected onto the inside of a 1.78:1 windshield with the help of a mini-projector mounted on the overhead console.


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post #22 of 30
1/9/07 at 2:49pm

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You want HD in car, well, you got it:

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/12494/...-Car-Pictures/

No, they don't project the image on the windscreen, they project it through the windscreen onto the inside of the open front hood.

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post #23 of 30
1/9/07 at 5:53pm

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Now that is just cool!
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post #24 of 30
1/10/07 at 10:44am

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http://avzombie.com/blog/2007/01/10/...-announcement/

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Meridian will not be releasing an HD DVD player anytime soon. So says brand spokesman John Bamford, who claims that he was surprised to read that the company had been announced as a hardware partner by the HD DVD Promotion Group during its Las Vegas CES press event.

“We’re interested in HD DVD, but we’re also interested in Blu-ray,” says Bamford. “Meridian has been helping the HD DVD group with encoding and technical issues but our involvement appears to have been blown up out of all proportion. If we were to launch an HD DVD deck it would not appear for years.”

It just keeps going downhill. And they say Sony exaggerates and lies?
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post #25 of 30
1/10/07 at 2:22pm

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Let RCA turn your television into- SelectaVision!
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post #26 of 30
1/10/07 at 3:57pm

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Originally Posted by Dave Mack
http://avzombie.com/blog/2007/01/10/...-announcement/

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Meridian will not be releasing an HD DVD player anytime soon. So says brand spokesman John Bamford, who claims that he was surprised to read that the company had been announced as a hardware partner by the HD DVD Promotion Group during its Las Vegas CES press event.

“We’re interested in HD DVD, but we’re also interested in Blu-ray,” says Bamford. “Meridian has been helping the HD DVD group with encoding and technical issues but our involvement appears to have been blown up out of all proportion. If we were to launch an HD DVD deck it would not appear for years.”

It just keeps going downhill. And they say Sony exaggerates and lies?


Looks like Bamford was ill informed:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...&&#post9417584


http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...&&#post9418642
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post #27 of 30
1/10/07 at 4:35pm

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Originally Posted by Dave Mack
It just keeps going downhill. And they say Sony exaggerates and lies?

Looks like it is a little too soon to decide who is right and who is wrong. Let's wait for some official announcement from Meridian.
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post #28 of 30
1/10/07 at 5:49pm

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Good linky Larry.

My oldest brother would love to spend that kind of $$ on a Meridian. Crazy to me but he has the money and likes to get the expensive HT gear. Why?....because he can
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post #29 of 30
1/10/07 at 6:22pm

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Originally Posted by Tim Glover
Good linky Larry.

My oldest brother would love to spend that kind of $$ on a Meridian. Crazy to me but he has the money and likes to get the expensive HT gear. Why?....because he can


And when he upgrades next year when an even better player comes along, he can pass that Meridian on to you.
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post #30 of 30
1/10/07 at 6:51pm

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Originally Posted by Larry Sutliff
And when he upgrades next year when an even better player comes along, he can pass that Meridian on to you.

Which is exactly why I wholeheartedly support & encourage his HT buying choices!
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