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Have all the kinks been ironed out of the HD-A1? Has dvd navigation improved or still slow like some people have mentioned? I've been looking at getting an upconverting player but I felt its best to roll that money into a HD-A1. I guess I'm one of those that's getting tired of waiting for some...

What's holding me back? Let's say that for the past 2 years I waited and waited for the promise of HD and what do I see today, two formats, that sound great on paper and promises, but which have been delivered with incomplete and buggy hardware! Blu-ray, for which I had the most hope, appears to...

Thanks for the info Felix. At the prices they are charging for these players, they should be ashamed in using chips that have such limitations. JMHO.

"I did not get a straight answer on any of them - they are getting back to me. However, the "tech" guy in the room thought the player did internal conversion 1080p-1080i-1080p, but was going to double check and see if it was straight 1080p" Is there a technical reason why companies do what...

If this thread has gone off topic, I take part blame but the thought of unification still brings up the point of BOM. Other than the optical components, both format players share if not identical at least very equivalent components and technology. Processing power aside, current SD DVD players...

Don't know if this has been discussed but I just can't understand how blu-ray and HD-DVD players can cost so much much more than even a decent SD DVD player going to $200! For the price consumers are being asked to pay for these players, one could build whole computer with a fairly highend...

It appears like there are many people waiting to compare the two formats before buying into one. I'm one of these. What I'm debating is how much better does Blu-ray IQ have to be to justify the units selling for twice the selling prices of HD-DVD players? Sony can argue all they want about the...

My definition of the "average buyer" is one who already has put out some cash for a 40"+ large screen TV. These people will be buying a HD player just like they bought a DVD player, a PVR, or subscribed to HD cable. HD will have early buyers for sure, but my original point was that the price...

Just checked Best Buy Canada's website and the Toshiba HD DVD Player (HD-A1) is retailing for $699.99 while the Samsung Blu-Ray Disc Player (BD-P1000) is going for $1299.99. All prices are in Canadian loonies. Toshiba is certainly being aggressive and the pricing disparity is huge to say the...

DaVID, you said "The real question is "when does the format war start to hurt more than it helps?" I think you hit the nail on the head. To most people current DVD image quality is sufficient and they couldn't care less about HD. At this point in time any confusion that a potential buyer...

David, IMO format wars are not implicit if one format comes out swinging hard and fast well before the other. With Sony delaying the PS3 blu-ray may have taken a hard hit to the side of the head. Time will tell if this was enough to do some serious damage. We've had DVD-R and +R from the...

There's nothing worse than a format war. Just the fact we have two competing formats implies we will have a format war. Some titles will only be available on one format while other titles will only be released on the competing format. Not every hardware manufacturer will be making dual format...