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Wal-Mart Begins Massive Push For HD DVD
Several readers sent us word of Wal-Mart's ordering 2 million HD DVD players from China. Hans V wrote, "My kids work at Wal-Mart and the manager there has been talking about this. HD-DVD's are selling like mad there so I hear." Another reader sent us a few links in Chinese and summarized them this way: "The first batches of these blue-laser HD DVD players are to land sometime in 2007, with complete fulfillment of the order [from Fuh Yuan] in 2008. The deal could be worth up to $300 million US, which translates to $150 per player. If so, by the time Christmas 2007 rolls around, Wal-Mart could be selling these for less than $200 retail, although some speculate that the initial manufacturer suggested retail pricing might be in the ballpark of $299. Currently the cheapest high-definition player is a Toshiba HD DVD with an MSRP of $399." By comparison Blu-Ray players, manufactured in Japan, are not expected to drop below $1000 until next year. The International Herald Tribune writes about the risk Toshiba is taking by bringing in Chinese manufacturers to trump Sony in the format war.
seriously. My favorite anachronism is Sony also plans to put the technology in the PlayStation 3 when the game console is released in the spring
...improve the dialogue of the movies?
-- Even if a god did exist, why the fsck should I worship it?
So, you're saying that the company that created Betamax, ATRAC encoding, the S-Link protocol, Minidisc players, Super-AudioCDs, Memory Sticks and Universal Media Discs might actually lose a format war?
Preposterous!
Mike Hoye
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sony, haha
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How does converting your purchased DVDs to XVID make them any more "on-demand" than just watching the DVDs themselves?
Well, I suppose if you have a gigantic hard drive (or several of them), then you could have all your movies accessible without swapping discs in and out.
Though I'm happy to boast that my own laziness threshold, while low, is still well above swapping a DVD.
Don't forget your monster cables only $79.95
And 100% of those posts have to mention rootkits!
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
You know what? Fuck you. Fuck you and your hysterical xenophobia
Actually, Fuh Yu will be making the players for Wal-Mart.