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Fuzzy Logic Prices slashed as HD DVD nears ‘High-Def Dead Video Disc’ status
Fuzzy Logic Prices slashed as HD DVD nears ‘High-Def Dead Video Disc’ status | Prices slashed as HD DVD nears ‘High-Def Dead Video Disc’ status |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 22 January 2008 | |
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We can blame the movie studios for that – they still live in a pre-Internet world where distribution and region coding and DRM are still important. Silly studios – they are learning the hard way that consumers simply detest the limitations placed on digital media. Downloads are already universal if you traipse the underbelly of the Internet and choose the illegal, dark side of the force. Those wanting to ‘go legal’ and pay money for movie downloads wherever they are in the world just have to wait until HD movie download services, whoever they are from (Apple, Microsoft, BigPond, etc) become available in their area, alongside multi-megabit download speeds and download caps of hundreds of gigabytes becomes common, especially if you want to download in HD. So – your choices are simple. Buy a cheap HD DVD player from Toshiba and get a stack of bonus movies, as well as a player that can upscale DVDs, but with little hope of future HD DVD titles. You could buy a PS3 or other (upgradeable) Blu-ray player, or you could wait for HD movie downloads, or you can download them now illegally. Or... you can just sit back and relax with your existing DVD player and TV, and just wait for prices for HD equipment to come down even further. SD, HD, Blu-ray, HD DVD, downloads... it’s nice to have choice, but with so many things to look out for, going HD is sadly nowhere near as easy as it should be. |
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