Cheap Chinese HD DVD

[matengawhat]

please don't hold me to this - i read somewhere that now toshiba has given up on hd dvd that the technology was being used by other companies without them having to pay toshiba a massive developers fee and that the format may still reapear in some form - can't seem to find where i read it now - anyone else seen anything?

 

[Anonymous]

wow! If there is any truth to that then that's some pretty hot news and would be very welconme I imagine amongst many including myself.

 

[D.J.KRIME]

Why would someone make a player for a format with no future software support? even if it was cheep??

You can pick up a 2nd hand Tosh HD-DVD player for very little if yours was to Die.

 

[Anonymous]

I think they ae actually CH DVD and only available to the Chinese market. The Chinese goverment want to have control over what distributed inside their country.

 

[matengawhat]

your missing the point - it doesn't need software - just hardware and blank discs - it could become a very cheap alternative for mass storage if recorders and blank discs can be made cheaply enough etc and with all the hd material on the internet that people may want to store to disc - down load a movie in hd burn it to an hd disc - no royalties to pay for it as dead format so free technology pretty much

 

[D.J.KRIME]

Yes this sounds like a PIRATES DREAM COME TRUE!

 

[matengawhat]

bullseye think your right that was part of the same article i read - if they make it their national standard surely that should mean very cheap and reliable - whether it will ever be adopted more widely who knows - something perhaps to keep an eye on

 

[matengawhat]

im not endorsing piracy - different contries have different copy right laws - what i was meaining in the digital age if i wanted to buy a movie on the internet from say itunes for example if they start doing hd content as a download i would only be able to store it on my computer - no back ups if computer crashes etc - i waould be happy to see copyrights placed to only allow one copy to be made - how then would that be any different to buying a dvd in asda?

 

[professorhat]

matengawhat:whether it will ever be adopted more widely who knows
Very doubtful. The movie studios have now all committed to Blu-Ray and they are the ones who least want a format war so they're not likely to change again now.
In terms of using it as a backup medium for computers, you can already get recordable Blu-Ray drives and probably can still get recordable HD-DVD drives if you look hard enough, though their support is bound to be phased out as people are more likely to go for a Blu-Ray drive so they can play pre-recorded Blu-Ray videos on the computer as well.

 

[matengawhat]

but the movie studios wouldn't be able to prevent you from picking how you personally want to store your hd material though? So they are no longer needed. recordeable blu-ray drives and discs are incred expensive guess depends on whether chinese could do it cheaper - although have reread the ch-dvd stuff looks likeits a chinese only product - unless there a market for it

 

[professorhat]

matengawhat:recordeable blu-ray drives and discs are incred expensive
They are but so were CD-Rs and DVD-Rs when they first came out. Prices will fall pretty quickly I reckon.

 

[Anonymous]

I believe I read something similar