Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler 89 HD-DVD Titles announced at CES

I guess the format changes were the most frustrating parts........anyone get pulled into the DAT fray??

I KNEW I would leave one out............and no, I dodged that one too....(although, a friend of mine recorded our "jams" on DAT.....the sound was good, but when it died...he lost all the STORED info).

Ha!!! Lucky for you!!!!

Yeah, a carefully conceived plot to FORCE upgrades and format changes......

the bad guys BEFORE the Redmond Sheep Herders!!!!

I worked at a post-production studio here in Nashville until early 2001, and DAT was still the preferred media then. Heck, we even had people bring in their projects on Mini Disc (yuck!). Thankfully, we never had any issues. I have no idea what they're using these days - my guess is that everything's stored on hard disk.

DAT has been enormously popular among professionals, although it's losing ground now to non-tape recording. You'd be hard-pressed to walk into a recording studio and NOT find one.

I use this one for backwards-compatibility with stuff brought in to the edit suite and when I need to record longer than an 80-minute CD will allow:



I think it weighs more than my Denon 3805 receiver!

I think the point is to wait for the price to saturate b4 buying, not wait for the next big thing to buy.

You could have bought a dvd burner for $350 when it first came out or u can buy it 2 years later when it's $50-$70.

You could have bought a wireless router w/ pc card for $200 when it first came out or you can wait 1 year later when 802.11b was almost free after rebate.

I will buy HD-DVD when it became mainstream and price has been saturated.

btw, I also owned a lazerdisc machine. I guess it wasn't popular in america but in Hong Kong, every family has a lazerdisc machine. That was the pre-DVD era.

BigJ: You bet man!

Alan: Thanks for the reply. I know that some of the same issues were brought up right before DVD hit the market, but we know how all that turned out. I agree that the HD movie channels are absolutely awesome; however, the sound can be an issue. I'd be more curious though how you would compare what you saw at with HD-DVD at CES to what we now get with DVD? Better, worse, the same?

Spiff: I know what you mean. I never got into VHS; infact, I still have my old school LD player and a few LD's.

I understand the concept, but some people won't or can't wait. As a technology professional, some things I MUST have when released in order to understand the present, and future directions of markets. I need to understand certain things in order to provide a service to my clients, and do justice to any business I am working with.

Understand that this spans all technology.....and as the engineering costs are recouped after the intitial release cycles, some products are justifiably price levelled.

Considering I have wanted a Denon 2900, 2200, 2910... for over 2 years now for an upgrade, I am guessing that the upgrade to HD-DVD will be even more logical. I for one can't wait and will likely be one of the first adopters.

Although I am definitely afraid of the format war. I am really hoping that we will have universal players like we do for SACD and DVD-A. Otherwise, 2 players will be ridiculous. I currently only have a DVD-A capable player and it pisses me off royally.

Also, I am afraid of the fact that my HDTV only has component video in. It is likely that I will not even be able to recieve the HD signal from these players because of DVI and HDMI. So the upgrade may need to include a new TV as well, which is pretty much impossible.