Toshiba Introduces U.S. First HD DVD Players

Roy R writes "Toshiba America Consumer Products unveiled today the market launch details for its line-up of the first High Definition DVD players for the U.S. market. The new HD DVD players, models HD-XA1 and HD-A1, will take advantage of the superior capabilities of the HD DVD format. The players will output copy-protected HD content through the HDMI interface in the native format of the HD DVD disc content of either 720p or 1080i."

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Stupid, any programmer nows HD is only $10 more

[cheekyboy]

You are a sucker for coporate billion dollar whores mafia fuck faces.

The power required for HD-DVD is SFA, Sure we might need 4x or 2x more space, but the cpu power or logic power
is trivial, or $10 at most.

If a $200 PC from wallmart can play HD MPEG2 files, thats 3x over priced compared to dedicated hardware decoders that are 5 years late.

Its called, "yes we can do the tech now at $10 more, but we will charge you $900 more because we are greeedy F UCKS."

We all could do HD quality in 1998, shit man, I bought a 21" monitor for $40 that could easily do 1280 in 1998.

so being generous for year 2000, the video card/hardware was trivial to do mpeg2 at 1280x768, its DRM that costs 1000000 man hours... or is it LAWYER HOURS!!!!!!!!!!

God damn lawyers, they should be paid $8hr or outsourced to india at $3/hr, because they are Dumb MOFOS - that never invent any thing, and know nothing, and couldnt save the titanic if it depended on their lives.