I have been holding out ever since the introduction of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray on buying a player. Mostly because of the early-adopter $700-$1000 player prices, plus the higher DVD media prices, plus the lack of HD movie selection, plus I already have a LOT of movies on regular DVD, and have a HD Tivo box for new HD movies, and last but not least I had been waiting for the dual media format war to get sorted out.
Well in the last year or so the format war appears no closer to resolution, but the media prices have dropped and movie selection has improved. I had thought that I would be buying an X-Box or PS3 to get my HD-DVD/BluRay player, and a game thrown in for fun. And even though Black Friday sales have dropped the PS3/X-Box Elite prices to under $400, it's still a bit more than I wanted to pay just now.
But I saw a deal on Amazon where they are selling the Toshiba HD-A3 for $187 with free shipping, and 10 free HD-DVDs, so I could not wait any longer and I ordered it. Two free DVDs (300 and Bourne Identity ), then Amazon offers your choice of 3 HD-DVDs out of 12 to choose from (decent titles), and then Toshiba has a mail-in deal for 5 more free DVDs (out of maybe 20 titles).
I've been happy with my current Panasonic RP91 DVD player, and I'll have to see how well the new Toshiba's upconversion works compared to the RP91's progressive DVD output for playback of normal DVDs. 8)
I'm still not going to rush out and replace all of my favorite movies that I have on DVD with their new HD-DVD counterparts, but most likely I will be buying any new movies in HD format from now on. :T
Well in the last year or so the format war appears no closer to resolution, but the media prices have dropped and movie selection has improved. I had thought that I would be buying an X-Box or PS3 to get my HD-DVD/BluRay player, and a game thrown in for fun. And even though Black Friday sales have dropped the PS3/X-Box Elite prices to under $400, it's still a bit more than I wanted to pay just now.
But I saw a deal on Amazon where they are selling the Toshiba HD-A3 for $187 with free shipping, and 10 free HD-DVDs, so I could not wait any longer and I ordered it. Two free DVDs (300 and Bourne Identity ), then Amazon offers your choice of 3 HD-DVDs out of 12 to choose from (decent titles), and then Toshiba has a mail-in deal for 5 more free DVDs (out of maybe 20 titles).
I've been happy with my current Panasonic RP91 DVD player, and I'll have to see how well the new Toshiba's upconversion works compared to the RP91's progressive DVD output for playback of normal DVDs. 8)
I'm still not going to rush out and replace all of my favorite movies that I have on DVD with their new HD-DVD counterparts, but most likely I will be buying any new movies in HD format from now on. :T
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