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$99 HD-DVD Player Coming Soon?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the first-one's-free dept.

Frank writes "Rumors of the high definition holy grail persist. The latest is that Toshiba will be offering their basic HD-A2 player at $99 for one week only, beginning July 22. An added bonus is three free HD-DVD's."

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  1. Re:Thats nothing.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So, it may well be an offer just for show attendees, although that would be most unusual... after all, if they're practically giving them away, they might as well actually give them away to influential people within the industry and the trade press.

    There is no information about the offer on the show's registration pages or at Toshiba's site, so take this as a tantalizing tease (with however many grains of salt you deem appropriate).

  2. Re:I wouldn't buy it by Jeff+DeMaagd · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think it's a fine price though, that would be the cheapest HD player and it's an upscaling DVD player too. I have a native 1080p display (as in, it really is 1920x1080 with progressive inputs), but it's a video projector, showing a very large image. There is a minimum distance to screen width ratio before it's worth going 1080p over 720p or 1080i. I think it's between 2.0 to 1 and 1.5 to 1. A person with a 42" diagonal screen would be OK with 720p unless they sit closer than 6ft from the screen, then there may be a clear difference.

    I don't know if I would buy it though, as I said, I have a display arrangement where 1080i/p is clearly distinguisable from each other.