Comments on: Toshiba Introduces Blu-ray Disc Player

By: Raptor007

Raptor007 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:37:28 +0000

I’m glad to see Toshiba has realized 480i upconversion is nothing compared to native 1080p video. Getting into Blu-ray is an excellent move, and perhaps they’ve applied all their research on upconversion to the DVD-playing part of this player. That’d make it a pretty sweet Blu-ray rig.

Do I wish it also played HD-DVDs? Of course! I’m not surprised it doesn’t though; it was probably a requirement of joining the BDA that they no longer make anything HD-DVD. Either that, or it was required to write off the HD-DVD losses. Or it was excluded to keep the expenses down. Whatever the case, I didn’t expect them to support HD-DVD in this player. Maybe if we’re vocal enough, they’ll put out a combo player… but I doubt it.

By: Juve

Juve — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:15:16 +0000

I am very disappointed at Toshiba. For the price, there should of been HD DVD compatibility.

By: Pravin

Pravin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:20:18 +0000

I received a copy of the press release directly from the filmmakers and our own article is going up soon. Anyone in a hurry can follow through to the high-def digest link you provided (which the comments editor does not seem to like because of the punctuation marks in the link).

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:16:24 +0000

Pravin, you should make a post about this: http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Anthem_Films/Disc_Announcements/Deadlands_2:_Trapped_on%E2%80%A6_HD-DVD!!/3382

By: Rick Hinckley

Rick Hinckley — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:26:39 +0000

Toshiba really messed up on this. They could have shown support for all of us that bought in to the HD DVD format by just making a model that was compatible. How hard would that have been? Basically they are saying “Hey, we messed up, but we do not really feel like helping you out”. I wonder what will happen to me and my huge HD DVD library when my players die. Can you say Ebay?

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:11:15 +0000

Damn.
Really wnated the HD-DVD playback from the Toshiba BD player, damn,…….
Guess I won’t be buyin this……..

By: ogscorpion

ogscorpion — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:01:56 +0000

I, too, am disappointed having no HDDVD playback. It’s like having a BD player not being able to play regular DVDs, CD music and VCDs. But then again, you never know in their future model releases. This is just their first so let’s hope that in their future release that they’ll have HDDVD playback compatibility. In the meantime, I’m happy with my A35.

By: Pravin

Pravin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:19:02 +0000

Actually, Toshiba hasn’t given up on the XDE front. They showed the XDE600KE which has a USB port to allow you to view DivX movies and pictures, and a slimmer look.

By: lakerstyle

lakerstyle — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:00:43 +0000

Like the old saying “If you can’t beat them…then join them”.

I too would have like to see a combo player, but I suspect maybe Toshiba can’t produce HD DVD as they might have written off that part of the business for tax purposes????? I’m not sure it would’ve confused consumers since it pretty hard now to find HD DVD at retail.

BTW…Whatever happen to XDE??? I thought it was supposed to be the next best thing??????

By: Rick from Vermont

Rick from Vermont — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:16:49 +0000

I am not miffed, but disappointed. I mean Toshiba owns the rights to the HD DVD format, you think that they would have included a decoder for free in the firmware upon release of their first player(BD). It all comes down to why now, and why not? I still own twice as many HD DVDs as BDs but I still have to have two players?!? What gives Toshiba? Maybe Microsoft will release an add on BD player with HD DVD compatability. I know most of us here are die hard fans of HD DVD, well those of us that have stayed here checking the site everyday, will always love HD DVD and our collections. So with that said maybe Tosbiba will remember the good old days of new releases in the HD DVD format and include a combo unit in the near future.