Did I hear correctly on the news, Toshiba is delaying release of HD-DVD Recorder? (1 Viewer)

[Jerome Grate]

I heard on the business news this morning (ABC News) that Toshiba was delaying release of their HD-DVD Recorder. The impression I got was this was going to be released here in the states, can anyone elaborate on this. I'll do a web search to get info, but if anyone knows please post.

 

[Jerome Grate]

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2186055

Above is the article I was talking about.

 

[Austan]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3294

But at $3,453, I dont think it would sell very well even though "the company estimated that it would ship a total of 100,000 units by December of this year."

 

[Jerome Grate]

I noticed that price, who would buy a product at that price with limited HD material available. Way to high.

 

[Mike Williams]

Limited HD Material? Hmmm . . . HBO-HD, including movies and many of HBO's original series, such as The Sopranos and Deadwood. Showtime-HD, including movies and original series. ESPN-HD and ESPN2-HD; NFL Sunday Ticket; MLB, Sporting Events of all kinds; Pay-per-view HD movies; usually premiering the day the Standard DVDs are released;HDNet and HDNet Movies, Universal HD, including the ability to record and archive Battlestar Galactica in HD; CSI (of various kinds), Law and Order (of various incarnations), Smallville, Lost, multiple sitcoms and other primetime shows in HD (currently only available on standard DVD); Discovery-HD; StarzHD.

I can think of a lot of reasons to get a player like this: even at that high price. For those that can afford it or save up for it, it certainly seems like a worthy investment. And because you record directly to the hard drive, you have the option of dumping your show to HD-DVD minus the commercials.

 

[Michael TLV]

Greetings

In Late 2000 ... Panasonic introduced the first generation of their DVD RAM recorder. The units cost $4000 srp ...

Oddly enough ... by late 2001 ... I had bought two of these units ... but for substantially less money.

A $3500 retail is high, but not that out of line. It delivers a heck of a lot more than the $4000 DVD RAM recorder.

Regards

 

[Ron-P]

I'd hardly call 2 weeks a delay.




http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060713/...MwBHNlYwM3Mzg-

 

[Jerome Grate]

Good point Mike, for me HBO-HD would be a factor as well as Showtime HD. But not for 3,500 smackers.

 

[Kelly Grannell]

Will this recorder be able to record home movies taken using my Sony HDV (1080i) camcorder? or Sanyo 720p solid state camcorder?

 

[Hayes Preston]

This recorder is currently only being marketed for Japanese consumers, all of the articles linked say Toshiba currently has no plans to market the RD-A1 outside of Japan, I think it's safe to say we (the U.S. market) might have to wait a year or so before we see a stand alone HD recorder.

Also of interest; the two articles mention Toshiba's "hopes" as far as market penetration in Japan, however one mentions 10,000, and the ohter 100,000. OK, so one article quotes a sales goal, and the other quotes a production goal. I think even for Japanese consumers, 10,000 is a more realistic number.