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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Alex @ Jan 6th 2009 1:33PM
Does the toshiba boot up a lot faster than a Blu Ray player, and have better response times?
JimC @ Jan 6th 2009 2:01PM
I don't know how fast "boot" time is for the Toshiba but I have to ask: What is more important when watching a movie, how fast it starts to play or how good it looks and sounds while watching the entire movie? I'm guessing the mere seconds in difference boot time would pale in comparison to the ~2hrs of quality 1080p video and HD sound you'd get....just spitballing here...
Alex @ Jan 6th 2009 2:59PM
that's simple: people that REALLY care about the best high def stuff already have Blu Ray. A regular person (what most EngadgetHD readers tend to forget about) doesn't want to deal with a disc player that behaves like a 386 computer. BD players aren't seconds, you are looking at a near minute to bootup and get the disc playing compared to a few seconds for a DVD player. A marginal (to them) increase in pic quality isn't as import as a cheap player that just plain works - not exactly BD or HD DVD players.
And HD freaks should remember that normal people aren't going to be able to tell the difference between their old 5.1 and HD sound (and most have crappy home theater in a box setups anyway).
JDS @ Jan 6th 2009 3:34PM
Alex
minutes?????
none of my blu-ray players has EVER taken more than about 20 - 25 seconds to boot up or load a disc to the menu screen
DrXym @ Jan 6th 2009 3:38PM
Alex, more accurately some earlier generation BD players are quite slow. Fortunately recent players are far more responsive to the point that it doesn't matter any more. More irritating is the practice by some studios such as Disney to inflict extremely hard to skip trailers and other crap onto the front of the movie. If they want me to watch their stupid trailers, they should at least make it a 1-shot deal (i.e. store the fact I've seen them on the BD player as BD-J allows), or put them on the menu and make viewing optional.
Alex @ Jan 6th 2009 3:41PM
@JDS:
read a little closer sir. "near minute" < "minutes"
Aaron Smith @ Jan 6th 2009 3:58PM
For me it's not the blu-ray player booting up it's the barrage of MPAA warnings and previews that don't allow me to go straight to the menu screen. Those take longer to get through than any black or blue screen on startup.