Consumer HD DVD Players Coming

tygrus2000 wrote on 7/4/2005, 2:59 PM
Looks like Sony and Microsoft will be first out of the box with something affordable for the NA consumer market.

http://wham.canoe.ca/Tilley/2005/07/03/1116909-sun.html

Now the only thing missing is how can I get my production into a form I can distribute to these machines and future ones.

I still do not hear any talk of home burning and authoring for HD DVD yet which is worrisome.

Comments

filmy wrote on 7/4/2005, 5:20 PM
LOL! This explains the "new" Sony outlook pretty well -

"Our goal for PlayStation 3 is for consumers to think to themselves, 'I will work more hours to buy one,' " Kutaragi told the Japanese magazine Toyo Keizai. "We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else."

Might backfire though - their entire target buyers all working so much they wouldn't have time to play it....so who really would buy it?
tygrus2000 wrote on 7/4/2005, 5:32 PM
It is kind of a bogus market strategy, but leading the pack of companies who are arguing about formats to the new reality in media delivery is the goal I like to see.

Between a few aggresive companies and falling theatre revenues, it will only be a matter of time before we see in home, on demand HD everything. Thats what consumers want, as as artists, thats what we need to deliver.
farss wrote on 7/4/2005, 6:01 PM
If the Media Centre PC concept takes off and Apple and uStuff seems to think it will, then surely how the movie is written to a shiny disk becomes far less relevant.
Bob.
Spot|DSE wrote on 7/4/2005, 6:37 PM
There are also HD settops from Emerson and Apex hitting store shelves now, or very shortly, that play the Nero AVC codec, so there's yet another alternative....But the Sony stuff looks great, even if their marketing comments might not make sense. I could be wrong, but I think that comment came from the Japanese marketing contingent, and that's an entirely different strategy.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/4/2005, 7:08 PM
so is sony aiming to make the PS3 & HD DVD more of a status symbol then a practicle item (ie a hummer)?

doesn't make much sence to me, but I'm not willing to pay the prices they want eigther (and we ALL know how the intro of the PS2 went)
kentwolf wrote on 7/5/2005, 1:25 AM
>>...but I'm not willing to pay the prices they want either...

Same here!

As soon as I saw the $50 price tag *per* game (and the game might not be any good) on both PS2 and X-Box, that's when I told my kids we are now out of the video game market.

This is after (substantially) investing in a PS (1), Nintendo 64, and Dreamcast. I even have an Atari 2600! The big ticket games in the early 80's were about $30, which was pretty expensive back then.

Note: Everyone has survived just fine without a PS2 or X-Box... :)