Blockbuster to favor Blu-ray HD discs over DVD format

[drseid]

Nobody wants toshiba to succeed and their "line" is failing, the blockbuster announcement
is just a few more of tosh's soldiers getting trampled.
Computer types want the storage, peeps selling old reruns of flipper or happy days want to keep the no of discs to a minimum.
And collectors and renters are a different market from each other, one collects classics, concerts, tv episodes and the renters rent whatever cannon fodder comes out on tuesday.
Anyway I haave seen this before, and you'll be surprized at how fast hd CRASHES
AND BURNS.

NO way this third rate electronics company had the cahones to run up against sony

Let me be one that goes on record that *I* want Toshiba to succeed...

As for Toshiba going up against Sony... Last time I checked DVD did pretty good. How quickly people forget. :-)

---Dave

[pixelthis]

Let me be one that goes on record that *I* want Toshiba to succeed...

As for Toshiba going up against Sony... Last time I checked DVD did pretty good. How quickly people forget. :-)

---Dave

YEAH, and sony was a major supporter (how quickly they forget)
These arent really two "formats", both have the same type "software", its the hardware
that is different, one lower capacity than another, which is bad for toshiba, since
even the companies supporting them (all couple of them) are authoring their stuff in a format that will be easily duped to blu-ray, which means that the rats will be able to jump ship as soon as the deck chairs start floating.
AND I dont really have anything against toshiba, even tho EVERYTHING I ever bought from them either broke or was mediocre.
A friend recently got a tosh dvd player and it looked a awfully lot like a OPPO player.
Maybe they gave up on trying to build one

[drseid]

YEAH, and sony was a major supporter (how quickly they forget)
These arent really two "formats", both have the same type "software", its the hardware
that is different, one lower capacity than another, which is bad for toshiba, since
even the companies supporting them (all couple of them) are authoring their stuff in a format that will be easily duped to blu-ray, which means that the rats will be able to jump ship as soon as the deck chairs start floating.
AND I dont really have anything against toshiba, even tho EVERYTHING I ever bought from them either broke or was mediocre.
A friend recently got a tosh dvd player and it looked a awfully lot like a OPPO player.
Maybe they gave up on trying to build one

Toshiba has plenty of major companies supporting HD DVD, but they don't have Sony (of course), Disney and Fox. Blu-ray is missing Universal. The rest of the major studios are format neutral, supporting both. Still no question Blu-ray has the upper hand here.

As for Toshiba quality, their HD-A1 is built like a tank (but like my Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray player was glitchy at release), and I had great success with some of Toshiba's earlier stuff like their initial DVD models and the like. I have not tried any of their DVD players in the past 4-5 years as I was using a trusty Denon DVD-1600 that worked like a charm until HD DVD and Blu-ray got me hooked... If the new Toshibas resemble (and play like) an Oppo, that would not really be a bad thing as the Oppo is a great DVD player. The larger Toshiba TVs have pretty much been completely outsourced to the best of my knowledge, and I believe the quality is not anywhere near what it once was unfortunately. I will say that whatever I think (positive or negative) about their electronics quality, their customer suport has been second to none in my experience.

---Dave