Toshiba May Delay HD-DVD Launch to 2006

Mictian writes "According to Reuters Toshiba may be delaying the launch of it's HD-DVD players that was originally slated for the end of this year. One of the reasons cited was that talks with Hollywood and major studios about the timing are still ongoing. It now seems that the players may not be shipped to retailers before 2006, at least not in the US. The Japanese might still get their hands on 'em by christmas. In any case it looks like a setback for the HD-DVD camp (Toshiba, NEC & Sanyo) if one of their few advantages over the Blu-ray camp (Sony & Matsushita), an earlier product launch, is essentially eliminated. Sony has been rumoured to consider a Q1 2006 launch for Blu-ray in the form of the PlayStation 3 console. There was an earlier Slashdot story about the rivals giving up on a unified format."

Comments

So what?

[pair-a-noyd]

I was at Fry's the other day and I looked at DL blank media. FIFTY DOLLARS for 15 blanks.

Sure, the DL burners are cheap, Fry's had some down to the $40 range. BUT, they screw you on the media.

I was looking just out of curiosity, I don't need one.
Sure I would like to back up 8+ gigs on a disc but they had 120gig hard drives for TWENTY dollars (after rebate)

My MO is buy big, cheap hard drives, back up to them, remove them and store them in a fireproof safe.

And for the nay-sayers, I have old full heigh 5.25 hard drives from the 80's that still boot and the data is still perfectly intact. Drives over 20 years old that I've made no serious effort to pamper. They are just on the floor in a closet with other old junk. And they still work.. BTW, one of them is a Maxtor 133megabyte (still works fine) drive that cost $1,900 new. Like an idiot, I traded a Tek Oscope for it back in the mid 80's..