Any one picked up on of the RCA HD DVD players yet?

millerman 3732

I saw it at Walmart Sunday. Looks alot like the Toshiba

www.rcaaudiovideo.com/en-US/modeldetail.html?ProductID=HDV5000

Willow

nope they are 1300$ in Canada right now

Willow

Sorry Dbl post

millerman 3732

$1300:eek: $498.95 at our local walmart

Willow

any of the HD/Bluray stuff is way up there in price, that tosh one is 1299$. Yeah I'm not forking money over for one. I'd rather buy an amp.

mmcgehee

There's two models of the Toshiba you know.

The Toshiba HD-A1 retails in Canada for $699 CDN, however, the player has been seen in stores on-sale for as low as $595 CDN

The only deferences between the two models is this:

*Sturdier build
*Moterized Door
*Port for one of those super remotes that controls your house


And thats it.


Now given the fact that Bruce Lee movies are coming out on HD-DvD this week, and retailers have had over 73% of their Blu-Ray players returned (I blame samsung, not the format) it's clear the winner till the Holidays is HD-DVD.

Fireman32

Waiting for the price to drop some more and let the whole hd-dvd vs bluray battle itsself out and then ill buy.

Willow

mmcgehee wrote:

There's two models of the Toshiba you know.

The Toshiba HD-A1 retails in Canada for $699 CDN, however, the player has been seen in stores on-sale for as low as $595 CDN

The only deferences between the two models is this:

*Sturdier build
*Moterized Door
*Port for one of those super remotes that controls your house


And thats it.


Now given the fact that Bruce Lee movies are coming out on HD-DvD this week, and retailers have had over 73% of their Blu-Ray players returned (I blame samsung, not the format) it's clear the winner till the Holidays is HD-DVD.

So which is the one at 1299$
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0665000FS10073990&logon=&langid=EN

Willow

Sorry it wasnt Toshiba but Samsung...sorry bout that but still @ 1299$

Demiurge

I couldn't see myself owning RCA.

mmcgehee

Willow wrote:

Sorry it wasnt Toshiba but Samsung...sorry bout that but still @ 1299$

Well it's blu-ray, hd-dvd is a completely different system.

Mike Reeter

Demiurge wrote:

I couldn't see myself owning RCA.

Amen...

Toxis

let alone spending money on electronics at Wal-Mart.

Personally, I'm all blu-ray myself. I see it as a format winning. I mean, what other platforms are helping HD DVD? Just itself. BD has BD, computers, PS3 and camcorders all under it's belt. Not to mention Sony already released it's VAIO with a BD recorder.

mmcgehee

Toxis wrote:

let alone spending money on electronics at Wal-Mart.

Personally, I'm all blu-ray myself. I see it as a format winning. I mean, what other platforms are helping HD DVD? Just itself. BD has BD, computers, PS3 and camcorders all under it's belt. Not to mention Sony already released it's VAIO with a BD recorder.

There are HD-DVD drives for computers. Microsoft is one of the largest supporters of the HD-DVD format, as for game consoles the X-box 360 will have a external HD-DVD drive out this Christmas. I have also yet to see a single camcorder that records to a BD-Rom. That's not to say they don't exsist, but I'm curious as to how they'd make a disk small enough for a camcorder and still keep the HD quality. Do you have a link do one I could check out?

bknauss

The RCA is basically the same thing as the Tosh. A bit of a different industrial design and I believe that's the biggest difference.

Andrew2112

The RCA is the cheaper brother of the toshiba but both are the exact same thing. I'm going to seat back and wait for the smoke to clear in the format wars before buying either one.

Toxis

Sony has their BD camcorder in test phases right now... no real info yet. I just saw some shots of it from a sony rep who saw a prototype.