Toshiba HD-DVD is Dead - Deal With It!

March 9th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
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I’ve been reading in various sites what the CEO of Toshiba, Atsutoshi Nishida has been saying about the future of the HD business. Let me run through it if you haven’t heard:

1. He reckons the new chips in Toshiba DVD players will “upscale” SD DVDs so fantastically that we won’t be able to tell the difference between SD and Blu-ray.

2. Digital downloads are the way to go, and Toshiba is working with Microsoft to bring HD downloads to the masses.

Well, here’s my response: BOLLOCKS! What’s he been putting in his pipe and smoking? Sorry if I’m wrong, but this just seems like sour grapes from a loser who can’t let it go. With all due respect, what a tit. I hear Sony and the BDA have wanted Toshiba to come on board and go Blu-ray - and that Toshiba point blank refused the offer. Now they’re just trying to ruin it for everyone else, the Muppets.

I don’t know about you, but I feel that digital downloads are just for iPods and portable players. They simply are not HD enough for, say, a 40″ plus screen. Not to mention there’s no HD audio such as dts HD Master and Dolby Tru-HD. Personally, I like to feel a physical disc in my hand. Besides, more and more Blu-ray discs are being sold with free downloadable versions thrown in.

I feel Toshiba has now lost all credibility. When HD-DVD was crumbling, my girlfriend said rather sadly that she felt bad for them and all their staff, and to be honest, so did I. I don’t like to kick a dog when it’s down, so I was eager for them to “come home” to Blu-ray. But now I feel they had their chance (twice), and they just pissed it down the toilet and pulled the clain.

I will be sticking with Blu-ray, and I know that savvy folks such as yourselves will do the same. Do Blu-ray technology, yourselves, and your friends a favour. Sit them down, take out the popcorn, have a beer or two, relax, and enjoy a Blu-ray movie. Let your friends see that the future is in Blu-ray movies first hand. I know I will be. Like I said, keep digital downloads for your iPod and keep Blu-ray discs for your home.

‘Nuff said. Here’s a message to Toshiba and Mr. Nishida: Behave yourselves!

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  1. Comment by The Blu-devil on 12 March 2008:

    Hi there blackblade,

    I have the Samsung DVD-HD870 (multi-region) and it is a superb upscaler. But it simply cannot compete with a True HD source (BD or HDDVD), either visually or audibly, and I don’t think it ever will. There’s only so far you can go with a 480P image. You can send Ron Jeremy to the greatest beauty parlour in Beverly Hills and dress him up in a Versace suit, but he’ll still be the ugliest little bugger at the party. My mother once said to me, “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” You say the picture is like 90% of BD or HDDVD, but should we settle for 90%?

    I want people to experience the WOW!!!!!! factor I felt when I watched (and listened) to I,ROBOT, the wild beauty of the jungles in RESCUE DAWN (which I’ve seen first hand so I know that the Blu-ray did it justice), or the vivid colours of RATATOUILLE, just as the directors of these films intended. I have had many, many years of enjoyment from DVD, but it’s time to move on.

    I have always preferred physical media as opposed to downloads. For example, I still enjoy listening to my vinyl records.I love the idea of browsing through my collection of DVDs and now Blu-Rays, and I’m sure many other people do, too. It’s that feeling of holding something tangible. With downloads, I always feel that I am only renting and not owning the song, trailer, etc.

    I do not live in the US. I live in Thailand and I haven’t been to Japan…yet. Maybe later this year… Why do you ask? Peace. :-D

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