Chinese HD DVD players still possible this year

[navychop]

This VideoBusiness article discusses that no announcements have been made yet, but that such players may yet make it to the U.S. market this year.

Would the threat of cheap Chinese players keep others out of the market? Are there so few non-Toshiba players because Toshiba prices them so low, it's hard for another manufacturer to turn a profit?

Anyway, the article has a nice plug for Value Electronics.

 

[SatinKzo]

Recent track record shows that these players will be painted with lead and if my dog/cat licks it, they will die.

 

[mike1973]

Recent track record shows that these players will be painted with lead and if my dog/cat licks it, they will die.

HA! Now that was funny

 

[s8ist]

I think it will be a combination of features in a box that could make the adoption of HDDVD possible. Look at popular manufacturer APEX, whose DVD players were widely bought because of region-free coding, and they could read any mpeg-1/2 without being formatted to a dvd/vcd/svcd compliant spec. To top it off they were cheaper than all of the dvd players on the market. So, they were feature-rich and inexpensive.

What would be nice is an HD-DVD player that plays all popular MPEG-4 formats (h.264, DiVX, Xvid, WMV), and also reads VCD, SVCD, and obviously DVD (region free) and converts PAL to NTSC (or vice versa) on the fly.

 

[navychop]

Yep, I think that would be a winner.