http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/ 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/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/Jan 5th 2007 9:30AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/
It's a tiny step up, as two DVD-9s match that capacity and (likely) beat the hell out of it in price.

The format war sucks, but 15GB compared to that hand-to-the-face 25GB or 50GB BD-R is... wait... who's hand was in whose face?

-Pie]]>Jan 5th 2007 11:14AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/Jan 5th 2007 12:03PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/
LOL

Blu-ray is cheaper per GB than hd dvd... and have more future proof variants in the face of BD 100 and BD 200...]]>Jan 5th 2007 1:08PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/Jan 5th 2007 1:13PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/
How do you know 25GB or 50GB blu-ray will always be expensive? HD-DVD has licensing fees as well... that's the WHOLE POINT of the format war. So your claim doesn't hold water.

And indeed 50GB WILL be good for backup. As it stands 15GB is a huge disappointment, even when up against 25GB (and you can get both 25 and 50GB burners right now). About half my collection of HDTV caps are larger than 15GB and will never fit on an HD-DVD. And even my iPhoto library alone beats 15GB. Plain and simple, it's weak sauce. The DVD group should have done better.

And to call a "clear winner" right now is the utmost in foolishness. Indeed, HD-DVD MAY win the format war, but you don't even realize this is the first CES show with HD-DVD as an actual launched product. Same for Blu-Ray. Both were launched after last year's CES. We are still in "wait and see" mode... and that's the only thing that's clear about the format war right now.

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Yeah, i bet you know that!

So far Blu-ray is cheaper per GB. At the time when hd dvd prices get down Blu-ray will have been used @ its low prices for years... After that ... who knows.]]>Jan 5th 2007 2:25PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/Jan 5th 2007 2:33PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/
Once again, you're talking pure speculation, and very poor speculation at that.

In terms of price, one of the best Blu-Ray players is just $100 more than the cheapest HD-DVD player. And said $100 gets you to 1080p, which said HD-DVD player does not do -- you need to jump to the $1K price range for that. And pre-recorded software, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are comparable in price.

You cite "years of inflated prices" when already prices are comprable. I see nothing to support your claims.

And more to the topic, the 1X 15GB HD-DVD burner is laughable. I've made this clear before, but compare it to the new 4x 25GB/50GB BD burner (and "old" 2x burners), or to the price/capacity/speed of a 4x DL-DVD-R, and this is a joke on the consumers who buy it. A frickin' joke of mammoth proportions!

What I care about here is the truth -- not Blu-Ray or HD-DVD zealotry. You're talking speculation of the worse kind, and your claiming a winner in the format war based on this. That's what I have a problem with, and why I'm responding here.

-Pie]]>Jan 5th 2007 3:14PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20061116PR208.html]]>Jan 7th 2007 9:56PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/Jan 7th 2007 12:03AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/BETAmax vs VHS - sony loses
MMCD vs SD (aka DVD) - sony loses
MiniDisc vs Cd/tape - Sony loses
ATRAC vs MP3 - sony loses
SDDS vs Dolby Digital... sony loses
S/PDIF vs DVD audio....draw
UMD vs DVD?...sony loses
Blu-ray vs HD-DVD... I guess time will tell...
and I personally hope blu-ray is as fantastic a failure as every other proprietary, non-compatible format they've ever thought up. If any other company was to have failed this many times..
and shove those Memory Sticks (DUO or otherwise)you-know-where too
Can you tell I hate Sony?

]]>Jan 20th 2007 5:58PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.stewartmilleronline.com ). In fact, my vision is quite clearly different than that of YouTube® or Yahoo® or others that just try to make money off of other people's work without building real infrastructure. My ideas involve both infrastructure as well as media. Had a venture capital company litened to me over a decade ago, we would be a lot better off on the infrastructure side of the house today, but instead they opted to finance more copper crap from local telephone companies. We will see what happens next.]]>Feb 23rd 2007 7:20AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/05/toshiba-unveils-sd-h903a-hd-dvd-burner-for-pcs/Feb 23rd 2007 7:34AM