{"id":197740,"date":"2008-01-15T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/15\/toshiba-trying-to-sell-hd-dvd-machines-as-super-dvd-players\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T11:09:00","slug":"toshiba-trying-to-sell-hd-dvd-machines-as-super-dvd-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/15\/toshiba-trying-to-sell-hd-dvd-machines-as-super-dvd-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshiba Trying to Sell HD-DVD Machines as Super DVD Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By virtue of the depth of the layer in the disk (0.6mm), HD-DVD players can play a standard DVD without an additional lense (Blu-Ray uses a 0.1mm depth with a super hard coating to protect it, which is why it&#8217;s more expensive), so standard DVD is pretty much standard on all HD-DVD players, and now Toshiba, following slashing the prices on their player, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reghardware.co.uk\/2008\/01\/15\/tosh_pushes_dvd_for_hd_dvd\/\">are attempting to sell their machine as a superior way to play standard DVDs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;Major initiatives&#8230; are designed to spotlight the superior benefits of HD DVD as well as the benefits HD DVD brings to a consumer\u2019s current DVD library by upconverting standard DVDs via the HDMI output to near high-def picture quality,&#8221; the company said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With DVD upconversion via the HDMI output, HD DVD players instantly make a movie lover&#8217;s existing DVD library look better than ever,&#8221; it claimed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Assuming I was wrong in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/matthew-saroffs-hall-of-failed.html\"> my prediction that HD-DVD would win the format battle<\/a>, I would say that this was a death rattle, though this might be a good alternative for people with large DVD libraries and large HD screens.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I&#8217;ve never been impressed by HD-TV.  I only notice the difference on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">really<\/span> big screens, or when they are side by side, so my interest is purely of a sporting variety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By virtue of the depth of the layer in the disk (0.6mm), HD-DVD players can play a standard DVD without an additional lense (Blu-Ray uses a 0.1mm depth with a super hard coating to protect it, which is why it&#8217;s more expensive), so standard DVD is pretty much standard on all HD-DVD players, and now &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1144,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-consumer-electronics","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}