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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
Absolutely!
You are speculating - though HD DVD did have a few things going for it that IMO would have aided in adoption.
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Duh. It's what we do best here!
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Something wrong with that?
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Wrong with what?
Cannibalizing on your own hardware? – Nothing wrong with it, just wouldn't have been a wise move at that price point. Seeings how HD DVD players were already expected to retail at $100. Trying to sell this Upconverter at $150 would have flopped HARD I think.
Or touting the HD DVD hardware as a great upscaler? – Again, no. I think we all agree (even the lighter diehard blu's) that the HD DVD players had great upscaling capabilities. Lord knows it was suddenly good enough for a LOT of people when Toshiba threw in the towel.
But again, why market a product at $150 — $50 more than your entry level HD DVD player?? Just doesn't make sense to me. Unless again, you want to cater to the people that think DVD is "good enough" and don't want to buy HD media. Which again, to me, doesn't make sense. Here comes that Speculation bit again. Toshiba had to have wanted HD DVD to supplant and replace DVD. Otherwise, why bother? Just to compete with Sony and it's New Fangled Blu-Ray?? Give them a bit of a headache for a little while? Not a chance. Following that train of thought, I come back to the first part. They would not have released this XDE player had Blu lost.