Sam’s Club Steal: HD-D2 For $243.97

On the heels of our Costco HD-D2 story, comes the Sam’s Club deal on the Toshiba HD-D2 for $243.97 (Costco/Walmart model with the same features as the HD-A2). With all the talk of cheap Chinese made players coming out in Q4 of this year, we think its becoming a non-issue since the HD-A2 is already [...]

HD DVD/Blu-ray Sunday Ad Wars Pt. II

For this weeks installment of Sunday Ad Wars, Toshiba maintains its assault on Blu-ray with it’s $299.00 offering of the HD-A2 w/ 5 Free HD DVDs. Sony counters with $200 off of its BDP-S1, bringing its price to $799.00. Samsung lands a shot with its BDP-1200 bundled with its 46″ 1080P LCD TV for $3299.99, [...]

HD DVD Player 249.99 @ Costco B&M

We were browsing our local Costco (Seattle Area), when we came across an awesome deal of $249.99 on the Toshiba HD-D2 (Costco only model thats the same as the HD-A2). This includes the $100 instant rebate for fathers day (price good through 6/16), also remember Costco has an unlimited return policy on DVD players [...]

Warner Bros. Boasts “The Departed” As Best Selling HD Movie To Date

Warner Home Video has announced that “The Departed” is the best selling HD movie in the short time since HD DVD/Blu-ray have been in the hands of consumers. Since February, over 100,000 copies of the film have been sold on the next gen disc formats (not just 100k “shipped to retailers” like Sony’s claim with [...]

HD DVD/Blu-ray Slideshows from Media-Tech Expo

Yesterday at the Media-Tech Expo, The HD DVD Promotions Group and the BDA both made their presentations. We have links to the PDFs of the slideshows. The presentations focused on hardware/software sales numbers as well as the HDi interactivity that is exclusive to the HD DVD format. Below are links to the PDFs, as [...]

HD DVD/Blu-ray Sunday Ad Wars

There are a lot of people that still rely on the Sunday newspaper ads for their consumer electronics news. One thing that really shocked us this weekend, was how bad Blu-ray looked as far as the pricing. With the new $100 instant rebate for HD DVD players, one could pick up a new HD-A2 for [...]

HD DVD/Blu-ray Disc Review Indexing Site

HDDb.net is a new site from the guys at upcomingdiscs.com. The site indexes HD DVD/Blu-ray disc reviews from lots of other sites. HDDb.net also includes individual RSS disc review feeds for each format.
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Blu-ray Review Feed
HD DVD Review Feed

Cliffs Notes: HD Audio Formats

Here is a quick breakdown of the audio formats used by HD DVD/Blu-ray.

OEMs: Are your repeater-chips HDMI 1.3 compatible?

Here is a link to a great **very technical** article on HDMI 1.3 repeater/switcher compatibility issues. We wonder how the consumer is suppose to figure this stuff out, when even OEMs are struggling to understand the issues surrounding HDMI 1.3.
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The Matrix HD DVD Promo Trailer

Check out the new Matrix HD DVD trailer that has been showing in theaters nationwide. The HD DVD Promotion Group is really pushing the big releases due to hit the streets on May 22nd. Sales on this date should break all next-gen DVD records.