CNET: 10 ways HD DVD fails short
By Matt Burns 
posted Apr 28th 2006 8:46AM
posted Apr 28th 2006 8:46AM
People ether love HD DVD or they don't. CNET is the latest in the HD DVD hating club with Ten ways HD DVD falls short. David Carnoy goes through a great list of why HD DVD didn't impress him. Truthfully, he has some good points. But in defense of Toshiba, they just released the player. Most of his complaints are about the player itself, HD-A1, rather then the format itself. Most first generation products have never been flawless. (i.e. PSP, Xbox 360, MacBook Pro) The best point on the list though? #10: A death of discs. HD DVD was supposed to launch with 30 titles but only three was available on the launch date.
It is too early to buy HD-DVD or Blu-Ray. Both systems are far too expensive for what you get. A year or two needs to pass before the prices become reasonable. It will also be a good idea to see which format will go the way of betamax. Both will not succeed. I am betting HD-DVD will win this war as Blu-Ray will be more expensive.
Maybe the reason CNET hate HD-DVD so much is because they have a vested interest in the promotion of Blu-Ray, just look at the advert/information pages on TDK's Blu-Ray (on the UK site at least: http://www.cnet.co.uk/explains/tdk) maybe they are getting paid to say negative things.
I personally hope Blu-Ray does win, as I see it as the superior format, but will only be buying a player in the form of a PS3, it's not worth dropping $1000 on.
Damn, Matt. Try bringing up the level of your writing a bit, huh? If you're going to post for the masses, take it semi-seriously.
"fails short"; "death of discs"; "three was available".
Maybe your mom can proofread for you first.
I have an oldschool Mitsubishi 55 rear-projection with only the RGB inputs, no DVI or HDMI.... so I basically get screwed because I supported the format when it was a baby. Way to alienate us!
What crap,
At least two of the ten complaints are regarding HDMI - Blame that on the content guys, not the hardware guys.
WOW - the $500 HD DVD Player only looks a little better than a $1500 DVD Player, Surely they should have had it up against a $500 DVD Player instead.
Player doesnt do enough, it does twice as much as teh $1500 Denon they are comparing it with.
Two are about features/extras on the HD DVD's themselves - which will change as content matures/understands the format.
Big round of applause for them working out that yes, a bigger TV does look more impressive.
typical cnet braindead article.
Basically this guy was told the think of 10 negative things about HD-DVD and write about them. He's really reaching on like half of them. HDMI issues aren't toshibas they are spec issues.
I don't want 50 million features on a movie player I want it to play when I hit the play button and pause when I hit the pause button and so forth.
The audio issues and slowness though need to and will be worked out with firmware updates.