What about Warner? Part the Second

[blu2]

Originally Posted by darkprime

Here's what doesn't make sense:

Assume Warner goes HD-DUD Exclusive. That results in a stalemate and dual-format players become the norm and take off.

Down the road, when blu ray discs cost exactly the same as hd-dud discs and the studios want to pack in more and better content and have region encoding, why would they use the hd-dud disc over a blu-ray disc? It would only make sense then if all studios started to use blu-ray discs to get those features/capabilities. This is of course because since everyone would have dual format players, they could use blu-ray discs and everyone could play them. Therefore, if blu-ray discs would become the disc of choice down the road for dual-format players, why even bother going down a path with hd-dud??? Can't Paramount, Universal, Weinstein, and Warner understand this?

TL51 could become a reality.

[richteer]

Originally Posted by blu2

TL51 could become a reality.

Yah, and pigs might fly...

[treyw00]

Originally Posted by blu2

TL51 could become a reality.

that would be worse then all the studios trying to double dip on re-releasing movies with a few extra features. If they do tl-51 NEARLY everyone that has bought into it will have to but another HD player. So in essence...i hope it does become a reality

[stockstar1138]

Originally Posted by treyw00

that would be worse then all the studios trying to double dip on re-releasing movies with a few extra features. If they do tl-51 NEARLY everyone that has bought into it will have to but another HD player. So in essence...i hope it does become a reality

it hasn't confirmed if it will or will not work on current players, but given the fact that toshiba hasn't exclaimed they have it working, means that they havn't gotten it to work yet.

[treyw00]

i thought i remember reading one of their reps had confirmed that a firmware update will not work. They initially thought they could "refocus" the laser and make it more intense, but about a month later they came out and said no....matter of fact, it was in the digital bits if im not mistaken