Count me as a new owner too...and bought a 2nd to give my mom for Christmas.
I wonder how many HD DVD's players would need to be sold for Ben to see it as a victory. My Walmart was sold out fast. I was about 4 back of HD dvd sales (there were some laptop buyers ahead of me too..then by time I got mine and took it t car and got back in line I got one of the last one's. There was a huge demand.
Tiger Direct had these players for $139. I bought one. These are not an entry level players, (remember the HD-A1), but the 2nd generation model. People were ready and able to give up their old VHS tapes when DVD first come out because of the picture qualty. I would think the player that is backwards compatible with standard DVD's will win with most comsumers since they have hundreds and hundreds of DVD and will not throw them away to upgrade to HD versions of the same DVD.
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Darayz @ Nov 7th 2007 10:05AM
Include me as one of the 90,000 new HD DVD owners out there.
Mike @ Nov 7th 2007 10:23AM
Count me as a new owner too...and bought a 2nd to give my mom for Christmas.
I wonder how many HD DVD's players would need to be sold for Ben to see it as a victory. My Walmart was sold out fast. I was about 4 back of HD dvd sales (there were some laptop buyers ahead of me too..then by time I got mine and took it t car and got back in line I got one of the last one's. There was a huge demand.
Greg M @ Nov 9th 2007 1:42PM
Tiger Direct had these players for $139. I bought one. These are not an entry level players, (remember the HD-A1), but the 2nd generation model. People were ready and able to give up their old VHS tapes when DVD first come out because of the picture qualty. I would think the player that is backwards compatible with standard DVD's will win with most comsumers since they have hundreds and hundreds of DVD and will not throw them away to upgrade to HD versions of the same DVD.