#6 - ALL HD-DVDs are encoded in 1080p. In addition, there's little to no difference between 1080p and 1080i -- all the lines of resolution are still there, it's just in how they're presented.
#4 - Currently at least, it's Blu-Ray that's crap. Toshiba's HD-DVD provides the best picture available to the consumer market.
#3 - As Steve J said, the Blu-Ray player is nearly $2,000 USD in Europe. so they still have a major price advantage. In addition, it apepars to me (correect me if I'm wrong) that the Samsung player being released there is the exact same one as in the States... Whereas Toshiba is releasing NEW players (although the feature set is not all that much different).
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Xyzzy @ Sep 3rd 2006 12:40PM
#6 - ALL HD-DVDs are encoded in 1080p. In addition, there's little to no difference between 1080p and 1080i -- all the lines of resolution are still there, it's just in how they're presented.
#4 - Currently at least, it's Blu-Ray that's crap. Toshiba's HD-DVD provides the best picture available to the consumer market.
#3 - As Steve J said, the Blu-Ray player is nearly $2,000 USD in Europe. so they still have a major price advantage. In addition, it apepars to me (correect me if I'm wrong) that the Samsung player being released there is the exact same one as in the States... Whereas Toshiba is releasing NEW players (although the feature set is not all that much different).