Toshiba HD-DVD Player...?

Question

Now Toshiba have offically stated they will drop their HD-DVD format, does this render HD-DVD players useless? Their price has dropped significantly, is it worth buying one, or should I just pay extra and buy a PS3?

Thanks

Answer 1

The Toshiba HD DVD players are excellent upconverting DVD players that will also play HD DVDs.

If you want put a piece of black tape over the HD ... voila you have a DVD player.

Why all the Blu-ray fans are so myopic re HD DVD players is puzzling. There are over 400 HD DVD movies available ... many of movies not going to be available on Blu-ray for months (Transformers, Matrix, etc). A HD DVD player for $75-$100 is a great deal simply as a DVD player -- remember THEM? -- there are about 81,000 titles available vs less than 500 Blu-ray movies -- and HD DVDs are the same or less expensive than Blu-ray disks (or soon will be) and can be played back in that "DVD player". Finally, until the end of the month you get 7 free HD DVD disks with the $100 or less player.

Does it have a big future re new movies past the next few months .. no, but other than taking up two inputs on your HDTV how can you lose?

Answer 2

Well considering that by the end of May, if not sooner, there will be no more movies released on HD-DVD. So yes I would say they are useless. PS3 is the way to go.