Comments on: Toshiba Saying R.I.P. to HD DVD

By: Crazy Guide to the Internet » Blog Archive » HD DVD is Officially Discontinued by Toshiba

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:16:25 +0000

[...] weren’t expecting the declaration from Toshiba for added week, but it’s official, HD DVD is today discontinued. In the advise promulgation from Toshiba, [...]

By: OldManDeath

OldManDeath — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:23:25 +0000

Ryan wrote:

OldManDeath wrote:
I suspect that now Sony will sell more PS3’s because it is a decent Blu-ray player and the added benefit of a console game system. I bought my PS3 over the weekend and I tested it with my Iomega 160GB USB 20 external hard drive to see how it handled it and some multimedia files and photos. It handled them all except for the multimedia files that the system did not support. The only quirk was with the menu system as when you select the USB device when it shows up, you would expect to see the files. However, it said there were no files present. What you have to do is press the “triangle” button to get the options menu and then select display all.
Glad to see that you picked up a PS3… you’ll have to let us know how you like it sometime.

So far I am loving it, specifically as a Blu-ray player and for playing DIVX video files. I am now looking into streaming them from my computer. A friend that has a PS3 says it can be done with Media Player 11 and he is going to be sending me some information with screen shots. I still need to spend more time playing games on it, specifically Time Crisis 4.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:36:38 +0000

OldManDeath wrote:

I suspect that now Sony will sell more PS3’s because it is a decent Blu-ray player and the added benefit of a console game system. I bought my PS3 over the weekend and I tested it with my Iomega 160GB USB 20 external hard drive to see how it handled it and some multimedia files and photos. It handled them all except for the multimedia files that the system did not support. The only quirk was with the menu system as when you select the USB device when it shows up, you would expect to see the files. However, it said there were no files present. What you have to do is press the “triangle” button to get the options menu and then select display all.

Glad to see that you picked up a PS3... you'll have to let us know how you like it sometime.

By: OldManDeath

OldManDeath — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:56:50 +0000

I suspect that now Sony will sell more PS3’s because it is a decent Blu-ray player and the added benefit of a console game system.

I bought my PS3 over the weekend and I tested it with my Iomega 160GB USB 20 external hard drive to see how it handled it and some multimedia files and photos. It handled them all except for the multimedia files that the system did not support.
The only quirk was with the menu system as when you select the USB device when it shows up, you would expect to see the files. However, it said there were no files present. What you have to do is press the “triangle” button to get the options menu and then select display all.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:18:38 +0000

Max wrote:

Blu-ray (lowercase r

Here I was just pointing out to Ryan that he goofed on one of his articles and it was HD DVD and not HD-DVD. Then I go and goof up Blu-ray. My bad!

netster007x wrote:

I was kinda pulling for HD DVD, mainly due to price. Whatever, I guess it’s good that the war is finally over. It’ll still be a long while before I adopt (I still use VHS if I record TV).

It’ll still be a while before I adopt as well, and I’m positive we’re not the minority. Sony has a long ways to go before Blu-ray takes over the popularity of regular DVD.

By: Google

Google — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:17:50 +0000

Can’t wait to pick up my HD-DVD player, there on ebay for like 50 bucks now!

By: netster007x

netster007x — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:00:28 +0000

I was kinda pulling for HD DVD, mainly due to price. Whatever, I guess it’s good that the war is finally over. It’ll still be a long while before I adopt (I still use VHS if I record TV).

By: CoryC

CoryC — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:37:44 +0000

HD DVD players will not be useless. They make great up-converters for standard DVDs and they will still play HD DVD movies that the owners have already bought.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:30:42 +0000

Blu-ray (lowercase r ) is the superior format mostly because of capacity. A dual-layer Blu-ray disc can hold up to 50GB of data while an HD DVD dual-layer disc can hold up to 30GB. Studio and retailer support didn’t hurt Blu-ray either, but I’m just glad that this format war is going to be over quite soon so the fence-sitting consumers will be able to adopt HD media. And to all those people who said Sony putting a Blu-ray player into the PS3 was a dumb idea, when will Sony get their deserved props?