Red ring ‘o’ death…as if Xbox 360’s weren’t bad enough
It’s no secret that I truly love the startling detail and features that the next generation optical formats give us. It’s also no secret that I have opted for the HD-DVD format rather then Sony’s Blu-Ray. I have done this mainly because all the classics that I truly love are all on HD-DVD, whilst the action popcorn flicks tend to be on Blu-Ray. I also like the fact that the standalone HD-DVD players are coming down price wise at a startling rate, whilst Blu-Ray players remain at a slightly more expensive price.
Given that I already own the Xbox 360’s HD-DVD player, I always wanted a standalone player the moment prices became affordable. Lately the price of the second generation Toshiba HD-E1 player has crashed, most probably due to Toshiba’s recent announcement that their third generation players are on the way. This morning I took delivery of the player, and will detail my experiences with it for the next two days. You can check out my review here.
Methinks I’ll stick to my 360 addon, then when it toasts the 360 I can send it off and get a new one hopefully with the new Heat Sink and a HDMI port \o/
Sod that, you’re better off praying that you get a 360 with the 0.65nm CPU/GPU bits, that’s more important!
So far we’ve got Elite’s on the way to the UK that will possibly have either:
1. The new heatsink
2. New heatsink HDMI
3. New heatsink HDMI & 0.65nm hardware
Obviously we want No.3, but no one knows when they’ll hit our shores, let alone stateside.
One that doesn’t forget where its DVD drive lens is would do me. I should probably get that sorted…
Wasting yet more money I see?
PR made me do it! He DARED me to buy one!
lol
Ah and i’n so likely to fall for that
Nice player mate, I am avoiding the HD formats for a while until the player prices go down. The price of that toshiba is very tempting though
You failed to mention this weeks bombshell that Paramount and Dreamworks have opted to solely develop for HD-DVD and not Blu-Ray resulting in Shrek 3 and Transformers(!) being HD-DVD only.
Also, Heroes the TV series will only be released on HD-DVD and not Blu-Ray, at least not in the forseeable future.
Yeah matey, I was going to but I guess I just forgot.
All the hype and momentum that Blu-ray had gathered just went to pooh. HD-DVD is looking stronger than ever now, good stuffs.
Got Heroes S1 on the way right now. Hope I get it over before this bank holiday weekend.