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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jake @ Jul 10th 2008 5:33PM
"This technology is AWESOME for anyone who wants to get highest possible quality from DVDs without buying ANYTHING if all they need is a new HDTV."
Is that a serious statement, or have the infinite-monkeys-at-infinite-typewriters started posting to EngadgetHD forums?
So, let me get this straight? Instead of buying a $75 upconverting DVD player, or a $399 Blu-Ray player with upconversion, all I have to do is buy a +$1000 HDTV? Thank goodness I get to spend a $1000 to watch HDTV-lite instead of real HDTV. The $10/disk I save buying DVDs instead of Blu-Ray will pay for this TV in....ummmmm....5 years, or infinity years if I rent. I am sleeping better already knowing that Toshiba is committed to brining me that kind of extreme value.
DrXym @ Jul 10th 2008 6:24PM
I look forward to your idiotic boasts of buying one of these high definition sets just so you can watch upscaled DVDs the whole time.
gamedude420 @ Jul 10th 2008 7:11PM
"Nfinity
LOL you seriously lack IQ to comprehend this. Someone who hasn't bought anything and has to switch to HD which is about 70% of PEOPLE.. only needs to buy a TV with this technology. Are you that dense?"
Um if you have to switch to HD then you have to go and get a bluray player to watch hd.
why spend a lot of money for a tv to only watch standard def and most sd content that wil be upconverted using the super up scaler or any scaler will look like shit, especialy films with piss poor sd transfers. they will only look even worse.
if you want to just watch standard dvd then you will just need a standard def tv and it would look better on most standard def tvs at 480p
which means you wont rush and go hd but just go digital meaning you either have cable dish or a converter box or neither and just watch dvd only
gamedude420 @ Jul 11th 2008 12:14AM
nfinity sure
bluray has already been selling faster than dvd did within the same time period of bluray.
digital downloads are a ways off
1. less that 25% of the world even has internet
2. less than that even have broadband
3. less have fast enough broadband
4. digital downloads arent truly hd they are hdlight not even beating dvd in most cases.
5. no uncompressed hd audio surround sound audio tracks.
6. not something simple enough for most people to use (not saying you or me or anyone in this forum, but the general population)
7. digital copies are in many cases just as expensive as a hard copy.
actally more so, considering they are of much lower quality video and sound.
8. digital downloads will be best used as an alternative rental option.
thats the only good use for such.
9. i can just rent or buy blu ray and rip them to other br discs or to an HDD and always have copies.
so i see no point in buying low quality downloads.
ya the selection isnt that great, guess what the selection of dvd wasnt great for a while either, but its getting better now.
and on price, bluray isnt very expensive.
sure the dvds have droped in price, but they have movies thats been on dvd for a while, blu ray is a new format.
vhs was much more expensive, i pad upwards to $50-60 for movies on vhs back in the day up to mid 90s.
dvd only started getting cheaper recently as of a few years ago.
if you have the money to buy an hdtv then ou have no reason not go go blu ray.
going super up conversion is just retarded since many movies will end up looking worse, few will look better but non will be anywhere close to HD.
you are better off with an sd tv which will be much cheaper to get . that is if all you care about is dvd or downloads.
gamedude420 @ Jul 11th 2008 12:35AM
not saying im not for the toshiba scaler. i'm all for it as a good scaler for sd content as a tv scaler but it is no replacement for blu ray. its ok for movies with decent sd transfers on dvd (not ones with poor ones) it will look better than most scalers sure, but not HD. its ok for peoples current collections, so they don't have to worry about just replacing it yet til their favorite films they already own come to bluray. i would replace the ones i like the most as the price falls on blu ray discs. and only buy new movies on bluray.
DrXym @ Jul 11th 2008 8:40AM
Poor baby thinks that people picking up a $60 HD DVD player somehow means anything whatsoever. For that price I'd pick up a couple too. Doesn't mean I think the format would rise from the grave or anything.
Grow up baby, your precious format lost.