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It's a bit of a mouthful with too many 'D's and about five syllables. While precise, it's not good as far as abbreviations go. Blu-Ray on the other hand rolls off the tongue rather smoothly. Not that it really matters, I bet even when we've all swtiched to HD we'll still just call them DVDs.
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Sony is a bit high on prices for the most part, but working at a store that sells Sony products (for the lowest prices in the city, too), I've seen the prices on most things drip significantly. We sell Sony's BDP-S300 BluRay player and when we first brought it in it was $499. Right now I think we're selling it in the vicinity of $399. The electronics manager predicts that by Christmas he'll be able to sell it (or a similar product) for $249. The TVs also follow a similar trend with price drops every now and then.
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Well at least it's been whittled down to one standard. As I remember waiting for one of the original R/RW DVD standards to become the only one standing, but in the end got a +/-/RAM DVD drive for my PC. I had been contemplating going for one of those HD-DVD/Blu-Ray combo drives, but they were still a little too expensive last time I checked.
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: HP *sucks.*
Hmm, I think having no region is a major *plus* ... you're counting it as a minus?
No, I meant that it was another nail in it's coffin, as the reason regions exist is to rip off Europe and make money.
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So mod your player or stick it in a computer and stream it over your house 'net to your set-top DVR, or encode to DivX with the same quality, burn it, and buy a player that will play data discs. Don't they even sell regionless players in some stores or online? There are lots of ways around that ridiculous region idea. Fecking capitalists.
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With my vision VCRs still have good quality, so what's the deal?
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God, Engadget's sucked lately. Everything's a Mac vs. PC spoogefest anymore. It used to be at least the HD/BR spoogefests would at least break the monotony...
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Ritten: VCRs record analog at TV quality which is equivalent to 640x480 resolution; it looks fine on a 640x480 TV, but a 1024x768 (or higher) HDTV makes it look like *crap.*
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Maybe, but can you tell me if there's a digital recorder that can record basic cable without having to sign up for some stupid service? Basically, a *true* replacement for the VCR?
As for the whole hi-def war, I haven't cared that much. I only first got into DVDs a few years ago.
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