90k HD DVD Players Sold in 72 Hours

November 7, 2007

In case the headline alone didn’t strike you as impressive, that’s roughly as many BDP-S300’s (the best selling standalone Blu-ray player to date) Sony has sold since they launched the player back in July. People can argue all they want as to whether “price matters” or “content is king” but it’s pretty apparent that sales [...]

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HD DVD Review: 2001: A Space Odyssey

October 26, 2007

I’m a huge fan of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ with that however I’m well aware the film isn’t for everyone, but know this review is coming from a fan’s perspective. It didn’t take me five minutes from the time I received the HD DVD of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ to get it out of the [...]

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HD DVD Review: Transformers

October 19, 2007

I have a confession to make, nothing sinister mind you, it’s just that growing up I never was a huge Transformers fan. Sure I liked them, even had a few if I remember correctly but there were always shows, stories or characters I held to a higher light. Perhaps it was due to the [...]

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Universal Preps Online HD DVD Features

August 30, 2007

Browsing my usual run of sites yesterday I ran across something from Universal Studios that could pan out to be quite interesting. As many of you have known for sometime now, certain upcoming HD DVD titles will incorporate web enabled features above and beyond the once its printed, it’s done model of DVD extras and [...]

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Goodbye Format War Hello Demographic War Paramount Goes HD DVD Exclusive

August 20, 2007

Owning both a Blu-ray and HD DVD player has afforded me something I never really factored-in at the onset, the little trivial ups and downs of the “format war” are pretty insignificant on a day to day basis when you can player either format at will. That’s not to say I don’t still keep up [...]

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First Generation HD DVD Firmware Update

April 27, 2007

It’s been quite a while since I’ve mentioned a Toshiba HD DVD firmware update here but this one is well worth a few lines.

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Two Million HD DVD Players for Walmart?

April 20, 2007

We’ve heard rumors of low-cost HD DVD players from Chinese manufacturers before but this article by way of ‘ET Today’ (I’m assuming that stands for Electronic Times Today and not extraterrestrial) states that Walmart has placed an order for two million HD DVD players with “Fukuhiko Electronics” a Taiwan based OEM equipment manufacturer for other [...]

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Rumors of a Dual-Format Player from Samsung Just Won’t Die

April 6, 2007

Just a few months after HD DVD’s launch we began hearing rumors that Samsung and LG were considering dual-format (Blu-ray and HD DVD) players, flash forward a few months later to CES 2007 and LG does indeed introduce a dual-format player, however Samsung’s supposed player was no where to be found.
The common consensus was that [...]

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The Matrix Collection on HD DVD

March 22, 2007

I haven’t commented much on hi-def disc releases of late, barring up-coming releases like ‘The Pirates of the Caribbean’ franchise I haven’t noticed anything all that remarkable on the horizon; that is until yesterday afternoon. On May 22, Warner Home Video will

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Toshiba HD-A2 Review

January 15, 2007

Toshiba’s second generation HD DVD players have arrived. The entry level HD-A2 ($499) has been available for several weeks now and by the time you read this the HD-XA2 (HDMI 1.3 & 1080p) should be should be on store shelves as well. After having spent about four weeks with the HD-A2, I’m ready to give [...]

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