Toshiba Introduces U.S. First HD DVD Players

Roy R writes "Toshiba America Consumer Products unveiled today the market launch details for its line-up of the first High Definition DVD players for the U.S. market. The new HD DVD players, models HD-XA1 and HD-A1, will take advantage of the superior capabilities of the HD DVD format. The players will output copy-protected HD content through the HDMI interface in the native format of the HD DVD disc content of either 720p or 1080i."

In the words of Master Yoda

[giorgiofr]

Begun, the HDMI massacre has.

Re:as long as it is region free

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, why would you want to watch DVDs when you can smoke all the pot you want?

Oh, wait...

I don't want another spinning disc

[djchester]

I want to view my movies directly from my harddrive, when will the movie/media/music industry get it?

Re:So where do I buy HD-DVD's?

[digitaldc]

I have a bad feeling, that like DVD, one of the first titles we see will be James Taylor live in concert...

I saw James Taylor live this past summer and it kicked ass. And, believe it or not, he was actually playing an instrument and singing in tune, imagine that!

How many DRM will you need to understand...

[Yvanhoe]

... that you are supposed to buy DVDs, not watch them !

Re:I don't want another spinning disc

[ratatosk_the_squirre]

Good thing there are no spinning components in your diskdrive then ;-)

Re:ok, so what bad info is being posted?

[interstellar_donkey]

Why tell us that bad info is being posted without telling us what the bad info is?

I thought the same thing. I think some people enjoy knowing more then others, and enjoy pointing that fact out. These people don't like to share that information with others, because hey, why bring everyone up to her level?