I, like many others, bought an HD DVD player not only because of it's more reasonable price, but also for the fact that it can play all my existing DVDs and CDs, and can "up-convert" many of the DVDs to HD quality during playback! I don't know if the ability to receive firmware updates via their built-in Ethernet port is exclusive to HD DVD units, but I can tell you that Toshiba also sent me a firmware update CD within less than two months after buying the unit. That's better customer service than I've ever received from ANY company for ANY piece of electronics, with the exception of Apple. They too provide "live" downloadable firmware updates as needed in a timely manner. But I digress. I think the assessment on the price of media is equaly important. For those who buy and build a movie collection, they want each title to cost $20 or less. BD makers should consider that very carefully, on both their players AND the content they sell for them if they want to compete with HD DVD. BD seems to get a LOT more advertising right now, so HD DVD makers need to pay close attention to that area of marketing as well.
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I, like many others, bought an HD DVD player not only because of it's more reasonable price, but also for the fact that it can play all my existing DVDs and CDs, and can "up-convert" many of the DVDs to HD quality during playback! I don't know if the ability to receive firmware updates via their built-in Ethernet port is exclusive to HD DVD units, but I can tell you that Toshiba also sent me a firmware update CD within less than two months after buying the unit. That's better customer service than I've ever received from ANY company for ANY piece of electronics, with the exception of Apple. They too provide "live" downloadable firmware updates as needed in a timely manner. But I digress. I think the assessment on the price of media is equaly important. For those who buy and build a movie collection, they want each title to cost $20 or less. BD makers should consider that very carefully, on both their players AND the content they sell for them if they want to compete with HD DVD. BD seems to get a LOT more advertising right now, so HD DVD makers need to pay close attention to that area of marketing as well.