I was wondering if anyone has seen a HD DVD player for sale? I've seen them on Ebay but can you acutally buy them? As I am looking at buying a new DVD player but i want one that does everything including divx, and seeing there HD DVD players out i want to buy one of them as my plasma needs it!!

The question is, can you buy HD DVDs?

i was reading that they can make your orginal DVD to HD. http://cgi.ebay.com.au/HELIOS-HD-DVD-Player-720P-1080P-DVI-HDMI-VGA-Component_W0QQitemZ9720440216QQcategoryZ3316QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

last edited by TiT at 21:45:46 07/May/06

LG have one out now actually, Harvey Norman have them for between$900-&1200. I have the lates Sony 'Pulse' member magazine and they have a nice Sony listed that will do any and all upscaling or downscaling as required. Not sure if they are here yet tho...I'd wait a bit and see what the other big players release. I have two DVD recorder, both Panasonic and they are excellent machine. although when I bought them they didnt do PAL progressive so I also got a Sony purely for playing stuff in PAL progressive, but I now notice the later model Panasonic stuff now does PAL progressive as well. The image quality of both these brands in excellent played on HDTV...waste of time getting a HD recorder if your going to display it on crap.

making a normal dvd into an hd dvd is just going to upscale it, like taking a jpeg in photoshop and hitting enlarge.

and then recompressing it

ENHANCE

as for 1080p, most television sets can't display that, even tv sets that are advertised as 1080p actually only accept 720p/1080i signal and upconvert it

As much as I hate Sony, I tend to find BluRay more appealing. But the price they're asking for players is utter extortion, so for that reason I'll be sticking with DVD for a long time to come (I'm happy watching DVDs on a 20" iMac, it's not like I own a 42" Bravia).

Is there a particular reason you would want to buy HD-DVD over BluRay?

as for 1080p

1080p is an utter bitch. I did some tests (using Final Cut Pro) rendering some of the stuff we do at work in 1080p (1080 x 1440 (animorphic) x 60fps), and by god it takes ages compared to DV-PAL.

umm 60 frames progressive? what country is that for... :/

1080p60, its a production format. ~_~

theres been a few reviewed on theregister.co.uk. if i where u, id wait and get a ps3. cheaper and a games console.

wait two years and they will be $99.

According to tv.com the first gen HD-DVD Players are s*** anyway

I was thinking about getting one of these

http://www.mvixusa.com/

what do you guys think

are there anyother brands out there?