Toshiba HD-DVD Player Planned to Enforce HDMI

CCat writes "Digital Spy reports that at a recent Toshiba road show in the U.S., Toshiba demonstrated their upcoming HD-DVD specification. The most interesting thing for people buying TVs at the moment is that Toshiba has stated that their HD-DVD Player will ONLY output high Def on the player's HDMI output (plus other digital connections) with the analog output downrezed to 480 lines. Prior slashdot disussion talks about the copy prevention angle and HDCP guidelines."

Comments

Re:No Toshiba standard for me then.

[badasscat]

I'm being punished for being an early adopter; my HDTV has composit input only.

If somebody sold you an HDTV with nothing but a composite input, then I've got a bridge on the East River you might be interested in too.

I gotta get one!

[Thunderstruck]

Now lets see... To get this thing feeding to my 1987 Black and White television, how many adaptors will I need? It's not cable ready, just has the two little screws in the back where I hook up the rabbit ears...

Anyone know how I can hook this new box up without disconnecting my Atari 2600?

Re:You misunderstand consumers

[HTH NE1]

Whatever way the porn industry goes with high definition dvds is likely the way the consumer will go.

I think the porn industry will have no problem going both ways, and a few others besides.