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Granted, it was total flame-bait for the HD-DVD supporters. ]]>Jun 4th 2008 4:58PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/engadget-hd-podcast-087-06-04-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/engadget-hd-podcast-087-06-04-2008/Jun 4th 2008 7:40PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/engadget-hd-podcast-087-06-04-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/engadget-hd-podcast-087-06-04-2008/
What bugs me about this podcast is the whole "I can't believe they are doing this" type of attitude from both of them.

Seriously guys.. I expected more from you. I know you are rabid Blu-Ray fans but come on. This is an extension of DVD and is in EVERY way good.

For someone who was taunting how we need superiority in everything both picture and sound, I'm surprised that you guys are now criticizing the fact that we can get much much better quality out of regular DVDs thanks to this technology. Basically you are saying, let's have same old crap upscaling of existing DVDs instead of having close to or almost equal footage to HD>

What's exactly bad about that? Oh I know, it complicates things for Blu-Ray. God forbid we have a free and competitive market. What fun would that be when we can pay high prices to BDA and everything that stands in their way is automatically insane. This technology is not even competing with Blu-Ray, granted it complicates things for them as it will further dampen the desire for regular schmo to upgrade to Blu-Ray but hey, that's BDAs problem and will force to them to lower the prices much quicker to the benefit of all of us.

Seriously, let's at least have some objectivity and reason here instead of an hour or so of a podcast filled with rabid fanboyism. Give me a break please.

I told myself that I would listen it again and give you the benefit of the doubt as true technology aficionados but you guys give it such a pro Blu spin on it that's it absolutely ridiculous. You are so tainted that you can't see a good thing when it smacks you in the face.

Really sad on so many levels.]]>Jun 4th 2008 10:11PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/engadget-hd-podcast-087-06-04-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/engadget-hd-podcast-087-06-04-2008/Thanks, I haven't laughed like that in a long time. That was hilarious!

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I'm glad that I amuse you.. if you guys actually researched this technology you would realize that SpursEngine can be applied to HD footage as well since the same functionality principle.

The reality is that I will buy immediately this player as soon as it comes out because it will allow me to enjoy a ton of movies in a much better quality then just simple upscaling while I get Blu-Ray versions of them for cheap. It's a very normal and reasonable way of looking at things.

When technology eventually progresses in displays and we have 4k displays and similar this Toshiba's new technology will also be applied to HD sources as well and double up their resolution with the same engine.

If you don't find any of this worthy then there's no reason really to discuss this with you or anyone else spitting against it because it simply goes against anything logical from a consumer point of view.

It's really sad how some people just have no sense of being objective. It's so hard to say, oh my that technology can actually be cool and good for all of us when it goes against your fanboy preference.

It just shows hypocrisy at it's worst.]]>Jun 5th 2008 12:04AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/engadget-hd-podcast-087-06-04-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/engadget-hd-podcast-087-06-04-2008/
So go figure with the whole logic thing.]]>Jun 5th 2008 12:06AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/engadget-hd-podcast-087-06-04-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/engadget-hd-podcast-087-06-04-2008/
I thought, great, I can use this receiver for blu-ray too, once it gets within my price range. But not so. I understand why the new codecs must be there, but I just find it annoying, and I'll have to go internal decoding for at least the next 10 years, because I didn't spend $2500 on a receiver for nothing.]]>Jun 5th 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/engadget-hd-podcast-087-06-04-2008/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/06/04/engadget-hd-podcast-087-06-04-2008/
If I hear "I don't want a 2nd gen copy" one more time...

Some people wouldn't be watching some HD channels at all if it wasn't for this device.

For example, I am a loyal MythTV user. I love it and have been using it for years. Currently the only way to *legally* get Dishnetwork, Direct TV, or encrypted cable channels into MythTV is the analog hole. Currently the majority of users use S-Video with their SD Capture cards.

Right now I only get the major networks in HD. My TVs are either plasmas or HD projector however I am still watching all of Dishnetwork recorded at SD because I won't use Dish's crappy PVR.

So the HD PVR will allow me to legally get ALL of Dishnetwork's HD lineup into my Mythtv.

So to some of us a "2nd Gen Copy" is the only copy of HD that we can get at the moment.]]>Jun 6th 2008 2:44PM