Is now the best time to buy HD-DVD!
22/02/08 10:06 Filed in: Personal
OK. Before you all think I'm either unaware of Toshiba's announcement or the general 'death of HD-DVD' stories, here me out.
I'm not talking about a lifelong purchase. But think about this;
In the next few weeks the world and his wife are going to be flogging off HD-DVD players at bargain basement prices. Already, over priced retailer Comet has dropped £115 of it's entry level Toshiba player, bringing it in under £100.
But don't make a rush purchase, because Amazon.co.uk are selling the same unit for just £77.99!!!! Putting it as close to the XBox external add-on drive as you can get.
Whether or not you'll still get your FREE 7 DVD's is anyone's guess. But hey, it's an offer they should still support because the expiration date is still in the future.
Now we have Amazon dropping 1/3rd off nearly every single one of it's HD-DVD disks, making then on average around £17. But then there is also the great 3 for 2 offers on a decent range.
So why would you get a system? Because it's a REALLY, REALLY cheap way to get HD content in the short to mid-term. The fact that despite the rhetoric, there are STILL some disks you can only get on HD-DVD and not Blu-Ray. Actually, what about the basic fact that content wise, those movies will look the same from HD-DVD than Blu-ray.
After all, this isn't the difference between Laserdisc and DVD. Where laserdisc manages 560x420 lines and DVD is obviously superior at 720x480. Both HD-DVD and Blu-ray are "HD" format video formats, in fact they are likely to be the same video codec! Either VC-1 or H.264.
I'm not talking about a lifelong purchase. But think about this;
In the next few weeks the world and his wife are going to be flogging off HD-DVD players at bargain basement prices. Already, over priced retailer Comet has dropped £115 of it's entry level Toshiba player, bringing it in under £100.
But don't make a rush purchase, because Amazon.co.uk are selling the same unit for just £77.99!!!! Putting it as close to the XBox external add-on drive as you can get.
Whether or not you'll still get your FREE 7 DVD's is anyone's guess. But hey, it's an offer they should still support because the expiration date is still in the future.
Now we have Amazon dropping 1/3rd off nearly every single one of it's HD-DVD disks, making then on average around £17. But then there is also the great 3 for 2 offers on a decent range.
So why would you get a system? Because it's a REALLY, REALLY cheap way to get HD content in the short to mid-term. The fact that despite the rhetoric, there are STILL some disks you can only get on HD-DVD and not Blu-Ray. Actually, what about the basic fact that content wise, those movies will look the same from HD-DVD than Blu-ray.
After all, this isn't the difference between Laserdisc and DVD. Where laserdisc manages 560x420 lines and DVD is obviously superior at 720x480. Both HD-DVD and Blu-ray are "HD" format video formats, in fact they are likely to be the same video codec! Either VC-1 or H.264.
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