LOL, come on. This is pathetic. I used to be a huge HD DVD supporter. Had 3 HD DVD players, and even I realized that Blu-ray was the future which is why I bought a Combo player. Toshiba needs to get over it and produce a Blu-ray player.
Oh yeah, because Blu-ray is setting the market on fire.
How dare Toshiba stand against THE AVALANCHE THAT IS BLU-RAY!?!?!?
Please... Toshiba isn't losing out on anything by refusing to go to the Blu-ray 'party' at this stage. They may release a player at some point, but I doubt it will be until Blu-ray has solidified itself in the market and all of the heavy lifting has been done by other companies.
And if that never happens, which there is a decent chance of, Toshiba gets to revel in the fact that they peed in Sony's coffee by contributing to Blu-rays stagnation; first with HD DVD, and then by not lending their support to the format after the war.
DVD is going no where? DVD is going strong and that is not going to change any time soon. Blu-ray has yet to break out of the niche market and I don't see that happening soon and who knows, it may never happen.
I think DVD right now can be a sound investment and there is always room for improvement. No one seems to be making quality DVD players anymore and while these might slightly geared towards a niche market themselves, there is a much larger pool of people and movies to help push sales.
Why would they invest in a niche that is currently going no where, IF it takes off they can get on board then IF they choose. In the mean time, they sit back and enjoy the royalties from the DVD compatible blu ray players and the DVDs the blu ray crowd are still buying as well, that would certainly be more profitable then trying to compete for 2.5% of the BR market, sony has got the rest.
This war isn't over, blu ray won the first skirmish is all.
zargon - I was responding to shawnmos, who was suggesting Toshiba make a Blu-ray player. I'm not sure how you got out of my comment that I was talking about DVD, especially given the last paragraph.
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LOL, come on. This is pathetic. I used to be a huge HD DVD supporter. Had 3 HD DVD players, and even I realized that Blu-ray was the future which is why I bought a Combo player. Toshiba needs to get over it and produce a Blu-ray player.
Oh yeah, because Blu-ray is setting the market on fire.
How dare Toshiba stand against THE AVALANCHE THAT IS BLU-RAY!?!?!?
Please... Toshiba isn't losing out on anything by refusing to go to the Blu-ray 'party' at this stage. They may release a player at some point, but I doubt it will be until Blu-ray has solidified itself in the market and all of the heavy lifting has been done by other companies.
And if that never happens, which there is a decent chance of, Toshiba gets to revel in the fact that they peed in Sony's coffee by contributing to Blu-rays stagnation; first with HD DVD, and then by not lending their support to the format after the war.
Yes, after losing a billion on HD DVD, they need to pour money into another format that's going nowhere.
I'll never understand what the obsession is that Blutards have with Toshiba Blu-ray players. None of you would ever buy one anyway.
DVD is going no where? DVD is going strong and that is not going to change any time soon. Blu-ray has yet to break out of the niche market and I don't see that happening soon and who knows, it may never happen.
I think DVD right now can be a sound investment and there is always room for improvement. No one seems to be making quality DVD players anymore and while these might slightly geared towards a niche market themselves, there is a much larger pool of people and movies to help push sales.
Why would they invest in a niche that is currently going no where, IF it takes off they can get on board then IF they choose.
In the mean time, they sit back and enjoy the royalties from the DVD compatible blu ray players and the DVDs the blu ray crowd are still buying as well, that would certainly be more profitable then trying to compete for 2.5% of the BR market, sony has got the rest.
This war isn't over, blu ray won the first skirmish is all.
zargon - I was responding to shawnmos, who was suggesting Toshiba make a Blu-ray player. I'm not sure how you got out of my comment that I was talking about DVD, especially given the last paragraph.
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