I wasn't jabbing the HD-DVD format at all, so much as I was the first gen Toshiba player itself. If I'm going to plunk down that kind of cash on a product, I want it to be stable and work reasonably well. New tech is always buggy. I'm an MSCE, trust me you always have to be wary of first run software and hardware. The problems with the Toshiba seem to be more firmware/software than the actual hardware itself. Format-wise I think HD-DVD makes more sense than Blu-Ray, but I think they will both co-exist when hybrid players emerge, similar to how things worked out with DVD+R and DVD-R.
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Jim @ Jun 2nd 2006 5:35PM
I wasn't jabbing the HD-DVD format at all, so much as I was the first gen Toshiba player itself. If I'm going to plunk down that kind of cash on a product, I want it to be stable and work reasonably well. New tech is always buggy. I'm an MSCE, trust me you always have to be wary of first run software and hardware. The problems with the Toshiba seem to be more firmware/software than the actual hardware itself. Format-wise I think HD-DVD makes more sense than Blu-Ray, but I think they will both co-exist when hybrid players emerge, similar to how things worked out with DVD+R and DVD-R.