Blu-ray - What a major disappointment

[Zvi]

Originally Posted by JimPullan

a player with glitches resolved already, players in abundance from every mass merchandiser nationwide, now they bundle three HD-DVD's with every player sold, will be introducing their 1080p player, the X2A before Christmas, a second generation player, with zero issues and including HDMi-1.3 to boot !!!

Interesting, talk about biased.

1) If you mean HD A1 it is far from resolving all glitches. Having had that and refurbished Sammy I can honestly say Sammy is better. After applying respective frimware upgrades to both. Faster boot time, no lockups whatsoever (which still persist on HD A1). And at lest Sammy can resume playback correctly after stop

2) Out of curiosity, how do you know that yet unreleased XA2 which I also plan to buy has zero issues? Matter of faith I guess?

3) U fail to mention that new player with 1080P will cost the same 1000$ as BD players, and actualy more than Samsungs, since those are 800$ or cheaper now. 1080i player is the same tho... Despite the promices that firmware upgrade would fix that issue.

4) U also neglected or forgot that there are already 3 different BD players on the market, Samsung, Phillips and Panasonic. With few more scheduled for next 3 months. Ok there are delays, nobody is happy with those, but on HD DVD side there is NOTHING else that Tosh. Which is going up in price for all I can see. (prooves the point that 1st gen was heavily subsidized I think).

5) Also "forgot" that G2 Tosh players are delayed by now

6) You failed to mention anything positive that happened in BD camp. Be that DL discs release (which was vaporware according to all HD DVD fanboys until the evry day it got released, yet 60gb HD DVDs of course are very real and sitting in Toshiba's basement till we get movied that need them), improved transfers and PQ.

Apparently far as non-biased and objective aproach goes to BD, U and that Murchison dude are on the same level. I am surprised he didn't chime in already with yet another HD DVD hallelujah..