Deal or no deal: HD-DVD player cracks $200 barrier?
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The price for Toshiba's HD-A2 HD DVD player has dipped below $200 at Amazon, Circuit City, and Wal-Mart.
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Hardware manufacturers are in fix when it comes to settling down for a standard for DVDs. Toshiba, NEC and Sanyo are favoring a next-generation DVD standard called HD (high-definition) DVD while Sony and other
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HD DVD has recently faced some head wind in its struggle to become the high-definition successor to the DVD, but its supporters are playing an ace from their sleeve with the arrival of the first discs that take advantage of its players' built-in Internet connections.
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Toshiba more in tune with punters' plans than Sony? Toshiba appears to have judged its HD DVD strategy correctly, if consumer research from price comparison service Pricegrabber is anything to go by. What's stopping punters picking Blu-ray Disc is not so much the risk of backing the loser in the format war as the high price of players.â¦
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Promotion Group's numbers not so rosy either Toshiba has taken an axe to its HD DVD player sales forecast, despite claims from the HD DVD Promotion Group (PG) that the company's "latest promotional efforts are clearly resonating with consumers and showing that price is king when it comes to hardware".â¦
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A snip at at just Â£169.62 (plus P+P of course) Breaking News Venturer's anticipated cut-price SHD7001 HD DVD player went on sale this morning on the QVC home shopping channel for less than was expected. At Â£162.62 (or two easy payments of Â£84.96) it's by far the cheapest standalone high definition DVD player on the market.â¦
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If you don't mind buying into a format that has no future, you can finally get your high-def movie groove on for under $100.
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Blu-ray and HD DVD -- will be costly to everyone concerned, analysts say. The availability of two rival formats will raise prices and confuse consumers.
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You can add HD Radio to any car stereo for under $200, with no monthly fee to pay after that -- but should you? In Listening Post.
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A snip at at just Â£169.62 (plus P+P of course) Breaking News Venturer's anticipated cut-price SHD7001 HD DVD player went on sale this morning on the QVC home shopping channel for less than was expected. At Â£162.62 (or two easy payments of Â£84.96), it's the cheapest standalone high definition DVD player on the market.â¦
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Blu-ray Disc or HD DVD? Regardless of your choice, you have lots of high-definition player options this holiday season.
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InfoWorld - Vendors supporting HD DVD are cutting prices to boost their products, which are vying with Blu-ray disc technology to replace current DVD movie discs.
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Sony is slashing the price of its new BDP-300 Blu-ray disc player, which will be available in retail outlets for $499. That&#39;s $100 less than originally announced.
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At the CEDIA custom electronics show in Denver, LG Electronics is showing off a new prototype high-definition video disc player that it claims will play both iHD and BD-J interactive content, and will sell for $999. Is this one, finally, at long last, for real?
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Sony rivals Toshiba, Sanyo and NEC are working on HD-DVD rather than Blu-ray. Both are designed to have much more storage capacity than the current generation of discs.
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In a recent survey of HDTV owners by NPD Group, a full 73% were satisfied with the picture quality provided by upconverted DVDs for them to become too interested in a high-definition disc player of either format. Other figures are equally shocking, suggesting that the high-def format war may already be over. BetaNews spoke at length with the NPD report's author, analyst Ross Rubin.
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Warner move has stronger pull than Toshiba price cuts? This month hasn't just seen a relative decline in US HD DVD software sales - purchases of players appear to be down to, the latest figures from market watcher NPD suggest.â¦