Its not really such a good thing. I paid exactly $231 for my HDDVD player(it wasnt used). It is a 1080p lower end model. It is very slow to turn on, and the menu is not responsive or crisp like its competitor. A few times, while watching an HD-DVD, the sound gets all crazy distorted and at other times it freezes up. Toshiba is I think trying to saturate their market with their cheap players as soon as possible. Thinking we will forgive them later when they have market saturation and better cheaper players out. And we will forgive them.
So, I wouldn't recommend Toshibas cheap player and I certainly wouldn't recommend this Venturer player.
I just think its better to put something out that is a couple hundred dollars more and reliable quality.
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Matt @ Oct 2nd 2007 10:28AM
Thanks for the clarification. It'll be odd to see HD-DVD players so cheap... but that's a good thing :)
EddieBrentwood @ Oct 2nd 2007 10:40AM
Its not really such a good thing. I paid exactly $231 for my HDDVD player(it wasnt used). It is a 1080p lower end model. It is very slow to turn on, and the menu is not responsive or crisp like its competitor. A few times, while watching an HD-DVD, the sound gets all crazy distorted and at other times it freezes up.
Toshiba is I think trying to saturate their market with their cheap players as soon as possible. Thinking we will forgive them later when they have market saturation and better cheaper players out. And we will forgive them.
So, I wouldn't recommend Toshibas cheap player and I certainly wouldn't recommend this Venturer player.
I just think its better to put something out that is a couple hundred dollars more and reliable quality.