http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/ Engadget HD Comments for http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/Dec 8th 2006 6:15PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/Sing the HD DVD Petition to end this silly formart war.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/HD_DVD_Studio_Support]]>Dec 8th 2006 7:18PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/Dec 9th 2006 2:58AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/Same player in new box...]]>Dec 9th 2006 5:27AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/Dec 10th 2006 10:08PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/
Would you elaborate… which glitches and why is it crap? If you’re going to make statements like this, you should provide reasoning behind it; otherwise it just makes it seem like spam.

If you want 1080p, they have that available with the more expensive XA2 version. For those out there with 720p TV’s, and there’s a lot more of them then there are true 1080p owners, this is a very cost effective option for high def disc movies than anything from a standalone BRD player.]]>Dec 10th 2006 1:16AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/Dec 10th 2006 10:20AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/Dec 10th 2006 2:23AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/
To be able to use the player for a longer time period at top video performance. When you buy that 1080p TV, it will be waiting to dial up the picture quality for you. Why not get a 1080p player for $500 (PS3)? It's better than the $500 HD DVD player that only does 1080i, only has HDMI 1.2a, no hard drive, doesn't play HD DVD-R/RWs, can't surf the web, etc.

Disney and FOX have announced that they have NO plans to support HD DVD in the future. http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents

By the way, where are the 200,000 to 300,000 HD DVD standalones promised by the end of the year?]]>Dec 12th 2006 12:34AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/
The flaw with that is how often do consumer actually upgrade their TVs? It’s probably one of the least updated electronics. You can probably bet that the millions of people who have purchased 720p and pre-HDMI1.3 TVs in the past year won’t be updating theirs in the next 2-4 yrs or probably longer. Not to mention the massive amounts that still use analog TVs and probably will still do so (with a converter box obviously) even after the digital transfer date in 2009.

With that in mind, you’re asking people to pay for a technology they probably won’t use for probably a half-decade or more at today’s higher (new tech tax) prices. That’s assuming the unit is still working at that time. There’s no doubt about the formats getting cheaper (a lot cheaper) in that time period. Electronics is probably one of the worst things to “buy for later” since prices are always dropping and things are always being upgraded/updated.


“Disney and FOX have announced that they have NO plans to support HD DVD in the future. http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents”

Dave already tried to point this out in another article comment. And I’ll say it here like I said it there…

That’s right up there with me saying HD DVD has already won the format war based on what someone says in a column…

Unless that was a press release, it’s just rumors and is lumped into the same category as the hearsay about studio switching.]]>Dec 12th 2006 8:00AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/Dec 23rd 2006 4:59PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/Dec 29th 2006 12:08AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/Dec 29th 2006 2:21PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/08/toshiba-hd-a2-on-store-shelves-now/Jan 4th 2007 9:40AM