Limited Edition $99 Toshiba HD DVD players
Now that the war has been taken to the next level between the two HD formats,HD DVD and Blu-Ray,Toshiba which is one of the largest producers of the HD DVD drives says that it will be letting out its limited edition HD DVD players on selected stores for $99.
Wal Mart and
Best Buy was the one to grab the offer and have advertised that they would be selling the $99 HD DVD player on 2nd November.This
HD-A2 player was announced to cost around $199 and therefore this $99 would be an limited edition player.The player can output straight 720p and 1080i using the HDMI cable and will be playing the HD DVD,DVD,CD's.This step taken by Toshiba,puts HD DVD in the driver's seat.
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HD VMD-new kid on the block!
Past a year of so there has been a war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.The war is being fought to judge which one of the two is the best for the HD future that is behead of us.Both has its own set of pros and cons,the war is taken to the next level due to the introduction of these technologies in the next Gen consoles such as Xbox 360(using HD-DVD/DVD) and Playstation 3(capable of plaing Blu-ray).At the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association(CEDIA) that took place in Denver recently,a company came forward saying that it has found an new HD-Format call
ed HD Versatile Multilayer Disc(HD VMD) it can end the war between the the HD DVD and Blu-ray.The company claims that the new format uses Red Laser technology to screen the disc rather than Blue laser used by the Previous two DVD formats and the Company says that this would help to reduce the cost of it's products by a good margin since the cost of production of the red lasers is comparatively less than the Blue lasers.The new disc can stack up data upto 30Gb and is encoded with a max bitrate of 40mbps per seconds which is not bad when compared to Blu Ray's 48mbps and HD DVD's 36mbps.It can also support an 7.1 Dolby Digital crystal clear multichannel sound.Players for the new formats have also been introduced,the ML622S and ML775S are the two players that can play HD VMD's along with DVD,CD,Mp3.Priced at about $150 and latter costing more the new players have posed an open challenge to the existing HD formats.
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