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Toshiba Introduces U.S. First HD DVD Players

Posted by samzenpus on from the more-real-than-real dept.

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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  1. Eat me now! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Eat me! Yum

  2. Obligatory by Travoltus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Star Wars: Episodes 1-6 on HD-DVD, coming soon!

    C'mon, mods, this ain't a troll or offtopic post...actually George Lucas should be commended for making sure his stuff is released on the best media possible. That and he has made a lot of contributions to the industry in general. But ya just know Star Wars 1-6 is coming out again, and soon! :)

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  3. idiot mods... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What was off topic about that?

  4. Stupid, any programmer nows HD is only $10 more by cheekyboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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